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OverviewMerleau-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 Valery 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Galen A. Johnson , Mauro Carbone , Emmanuel de Saint AubertPublisher: Fordham University Press Imprint: Fordham University Press ISBN: 9780823287703ISBN 10: 082328770 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 04 August 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface | ix Abbreviations of Works by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Other Writers | xi Introduction Galen A. Johnson | 1 Part I: Merleau-Ponty's Poets 1 “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 Poetics 4 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 | 241ReviewsAn excellent, long overdue study of an important but underdiscussed aspect of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. This is a book that Merleau-Ponty scholars and phenomenological readers of all sorts, as well as readers of modernist poetry and literature, will welcome. The authors of this volume have made a profound case for philosophical engagement with poetry, for 'philosophy as poetry, ' and for the centrality of poetry and literature to phenomenological ontology. ---Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei, Johns Hopkins University, This book promises to become an indispensable resource not only for Merleau-Ponty scholars, but also for scholars in contemporary European philosophy as a whole, and in comparative literature, French, and literary theory. Creative, exciting, and visionary. ---Veronique Foti, Pennsylvania State University, An excellent, long overdue study of an important but underdiscussed aspect of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. This is a book that Merleau-Ponty scholars and phenomenological readers of all sorts, as well as readers of modernist poetry and literature, will welcome. The authors of this volume have made a profound case for philosophical engagement with poetry, for 'philosophy as poetry,' and for the centrality of poetry and literature to phenomenological ontology. -- Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei, Johns Hopkins University This book promises to become an indispensable resource not only for Merleau-Ponty scholars, but also for scholars in contemporary European philosophy as a whole, and in comparative literature, French, and literary theory. Creative, exciting, and visionary. -- Veronique Foti, Pennsylvania State University This book promises to become an indispensable resource not only for Merleau-Ponty scholars, but also for scholars in contemporary European philosophy as a whole, and in comparative literature, French, and literary theory. Creative, exciting, and visionary. -- Veronique Foti, Pennsylvania State University An excellent, long overdue study of an important but underdiscussed aspect of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. This is a book that Merleau-Ponty scholars and phenomenological readers of all sorts, as well as readers of modernist poetry and literature, will welcome. The authors of this volume have made a profound case for philosophical engagement with poetry, for 'philosophy as poetry,' and for the centrality of poetry and literature to phenomenological ontology. -- Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei, Johns Hopkins University """An excellent, long overdue study of an important but underdiscussed aspect of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. This is a book that Merleau-Ponty scholars and phenomenological readers of all sorts, as well as readers of modernist poetry and literature, will welcome. The authors of this volume have made a profound case for philosophical engagement with poetry, for 'philosophy as poetry, ' and for the centrality of poetry and literature to phenomenological ontology.""---Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei, Johns Hopkins University ""This book promises to become an indispensable resource not only for Merleau-Ponty scholars, but also for scholars in contemporary European philosophy as a whole, and in comparative literature, French, and literary theory. Creative, exciting, and visionary.""---Veronique F�ti, Pennsylvania State University" Author InformationGalen A. Johnson (Author) 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). Mauro Carbone (Author) Mauro Carbone is Professor of Aesthetics at the Faculté de Philosophie of the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 and an Honorary Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is the founder and the coeditor of the journal Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning Merleau-Ponty’s Thought. His present research focuses on the connections between philosophy and contemporary visual experience. Among his books are The Flesh of Images: Merleau-Ponty between Painting and Cinema (SUNY Press, 2015) and Philosophy-Screens: From Cinema to Digital Revolution (SUNY Press, 2019). Emmanuel de Saint Aubert (Author) Emmanuel de Saint Aubert is Research Director at the Husserl Archives in Paris (National Center for Scientific Research, École Normale Supérieure). His research bears most particularly on the work of Merleau-Ponty, rereading him through the lens of an overall knowledge of numerous unpublished writings. Among his books are Vers une ontologie indirecte: Sources et enjeux critiques de l’appel à l’ontologie chez Merleau-Ponty (Vrin, 2006) and Être et chair I: Du corps au désir—L’habilitation ontologique de la chair (Vrin, 2013). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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