Overview

Winner for the 2023 European Network of Japanese Philosophy Award for Excellence in Japanese Philosophy presented by the European Network of Japanese Philosophy In Merleau-Ponty and Nishida, Adam Loughnane initiates a fascinating new dialogue between two of the twentieth century's most important phenomenologists of the Eastern and Western philosophical worlds. Throughout the book, the reader is guided among the intricacies and innovations of Merleau-Ponty's and Nishida's ontological approaches to artistic expression with a focused look at a rarely explored connection between faith and negation in their philosophies. Exploring the intertwining of these concepts in their broader ontologies invokes a reappraisal of the ambiguous status of religion and art in the writings of both thinkers. Measuring these ambiguities, the ontologies of Flesh and Basho are read in-depth alongside great artworks and the motor-perceptual practices of seminal landscape artists such as Cézanne, Sesshū, Taiga, and Hasegawa, as well as other major figures of European, Chinese, and Japanese art history. Loughnane studies these artists' bodily practices, focusing on the intimate relations realized with the landscapes they paint, and illuminating a valence of their expressive disciplines as a motor-perceptual form of faith. Merleau-Ponty and Nishida is an exciting intercultural reading, expanding two philosophers' projects toward new horizons of research, revealing incitements in their writings that challenge unambiguous distinctions between art, philosophy, faith, and ultimately philosophy East and West.

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Author:   Adam Loughnane
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438476124

ISBN 10:   1438476124
Pages:   442
Publication Date:   02 July 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

"List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Faith, Flesh, and Basho Nishida between Religion and Philosophy Merleau-Ponty between Philosophy and Religion Artistic Expression East and West Ambiguity, Negation, and Faith 1. Ontology, Ambiguity, and Negation Motor-Perceptual Fabric: Faith and Transitivity Nishida and Phenomenology Substance and Relation: Separation and Non-Obstruction Nishida's ""Absolute Negation"" Negation: Chiasm, ""Continuity of Discontinuity"" Merleau-Ponty Counter Sartre's Nullite Absolue Nishida: ""Absolute Negation"" and the ""I-Thou"" Relation Representation and Perceptual Negation: From Non-Subject to Non-Object 2. Perceptual Fabric: Space, Time, and Light Vision and Multi-Perspectivalism: Seeing-Seen Representation, Ocularcentrism, and Multi-Perspectivalism Multi-Perspectival Perception The Three Graces Guo Xi: Angle of Totality ""Dragon Veins"": The Visible and Invisible in Daoism Merleau-Ponty: Multi-Perspectivalism and ""Depth"" Time and Negation I: Ecstatic Temporality Nishida: ""Eternal Now"" and ""Internal-qua-External Perception"" Skin and Bones in Rodin and Taiga Multi-perspectivalism Creation and Obstruction The Expanded Body: Vision and Touch Tool as Non-Objective Bodily Extension Space: Distance and Proximity ""Distanceless Distance"" Light, Tools, and the Aesthetics of Transparent Mediality Molyneux's Problem: Obstruction and Light Nishida: Full Reversibility and Expression Everything Touching or Nothing at All 3. Motor-Perceptual Fabric: Time and Motion Sesshū Tōyō: Zen, Vision, and Motion Cézanne's ""Germinations"" with the Landscape Time: From Perception to Motor-Perception Motion: Volitional Character of the World Activity-Passivity Ontologies of Expression Motor-Background: ""Solicitations"" and ""Unity of Act and Act"" Body and Expression in Time Nishida's ""Historical Body"" and ""Historical World"" Time and Negation II: ""Deep Present"" and ""Absolute Present"" From Multi-Perspectival to Multi-Volitional ""Optimal Grip"" and the Force of Tradition New Art: Creating the Visible Copy and Original ""New Art"": Objectivity and Faith Tradition as Historical-Volitional Ecstasis New Solicitations, New Continuity of Act, and Act From Creating the Conditions of Visibility to Creating the Conditions of Motor-Visibility Vision as Motion Motion as Vision ""Acting-Intuition"" Color(lessness) and Motion(lessness) Motor-Chromaticity The Color of Negation 4. Expression as ""Motor-Perceptual Faith"" ""Seeing without a Seer"" and Moving without a Mover Motor-Perceptual ""Blind Spot"" as Dynamic Obstruction Nishida: ""Seeing Without a Seer"" Mirroring, Mapping, and Seeing History of Motor-Visibility Klee: ""End-Forms"" and ""Formative Forces"" The Invisibility of the Self as ""Style"" and the Temporality of Risk Coherent Deformation and the Force of Tradition Overcoming Reflection, Embracing Risk Holography, Infinity, and Risk Reflection and Faith Spontaneity and Non-Willing The Materiality of Spontaneous Expression: Bernard Leach and Pottery as Throwing-Thrown The Fallacy of Motor-Perceptual Neutrality and Uni-Directional Expression Spontaneity and the Temporality of Risk The Limits of Reflection and Doubt: The Pre-Reflective and the Necessity of Faith Faith, Negation, and Volition in the Pre-Reflective Conclusion: Motor-Perceptual Faith between Philosophy, Religion, and Art Secularizing the Spiritual: Nishida's ""Inverse Polarity"" and ""Interexpression"" Spiritualizing the Secular: Merleau-Ponty and ""Anatheism"" Works Cited and Bibliography Index"

Reviews

Loughnane illuminates the ambiguous, chiasmatic, and dynamic relationality between the body and the world, providing concrete examples from art history East and West. He not only skillfully explains Nishida's and Merleau-Ponty's ontological notions, but also puts their philosophy to the test of art works, proving that their thinking reveals an important truth of art. - Takeshi Kimoto, Chukyo University

Merleau-Ponty and Nishida is an impressive achievement. The lucidity of Adam Loughnane's writing mirrors the author's astonishing ability to map the connections and disconnections of two complex philosophical systems. His scholarship is outstanding. Follow behind him along the path and you will be richly rewarded. - Culture and Dialogue Loughnane illuminates the ambiguous, chiasmatic, and dynamic relationality between the body and the world, providing concrete examples from art history East and West. He not only skillfully explains Nishida's and Merleau-Ponty's ontological notions, but also puts their philosophy to the test of art works, proving that their thinking reveals an important truth of art. - Takeshi Kimoto, Chukyo University

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Adam Loughnane is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University College Cork, Ireland.

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