Merleau-Ponty's Poetic of the World: Philosophy and Literature

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.From Proust, Merleau-Ponty developed his conc...

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Main Authors: Johnson, Galen A. (Author), Carbone, Mauro (Author), Saint Aubert, Emmanuel de (Author)
Other Authors: Emmanuel, de Saint Aubert (Contributor), Galen A., Johnson (Contributor), Mauro, Carbone (Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Fordham University Press [2020]
Series:Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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Summary: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.From Proust, Merleau-Ponty developed his conception of "sensible ideas," from Claudel, his conjoining of birth and knowledge as "co-naissance," from Valéry came "implex" or the "animal of words" and the "chiasma of two destinies." Literature also provokes the questions of expression, metaphor, and truth and the meaning of a Merleau-Pontian poetics.The poetic of Merleau-Ponty is, the book argues, a poetic of the flesh, a poetic of mystery, and a poetic of the visible in its relation to the invisible. Ultimately, theoretical figures or "figuratives" that appear at the threshold between philosophy and literature enable the possibility of a new ontology. What is at stake is the very meaning of philosophy itself and its mode of expression
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages)
ISBN:9780823288151
DOI:10.1515/9780823288151

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