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Merleau-Ponty has long been known as one of the most important philosophers of aesthetics, yet most discussions of his aesthetics focus on visual art. This book corrects that balance by turning to Merleau-Ponty's extensive engagement with literature.
Sommario
Preface | ix
Abbreviations of Works by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Other Writers | xi
IntroductionGalen A. Johnson | 1
Part I: Merleau-Ponty's Poets1 "The Proustian Corporeity" and "The True Hawthorns":
Merleau-Ponty as a Reader of Proust between Husserl and Benjamin
Mauro Carbone | 17
2 A Poetics of Co-Naissance:
Via André Breton, Paul Claudel, and Claude Simon
Emmanuel de Saint Aubert | 31
3 From the World of Silence to Poetic Language:
Merleau-Ponty and Valéry
Galen A. Johnson | 68
Part II: Merleau-Ponty's Poetics4 The Clouded Surface: Literature and Philosophy
as Visual Apparatuses According to Merleau-Ponty
Mauro Carbone | 101
5 Metaphoricity: Carnal Infrastructures and Ontological Horizons
Emmanuel de Saint Aubert | 121
6 On the Poetic and the True
Galen A. Johnson | 159
Acknowledgments | 191
Notes | 193
Index | 241
Info autore
Galen A. Johnson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rhode Island. He has been General Secretary (Executive Director) of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle (2005-2015) and Jane C. Ebbs Endowed Professor of Philosophy (2016-2018). He is the author of
The Retrieval of the Beautiful: Thinking through Merleau-Ponty's Aesthetics (Northwestern University Press, 2010) and editor of
The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting (Northwestern University Press, 1993).
Riassunto
Merleau-Ponty has long been known as one of the most important philosophers of aesthetics, yet most discussions of his aesthetics focus on visual art. This book corrects that balance by turning to Merleau-Ponty's extensive engagement with literature.
