The Flesh of Images: Merleau-Ponty between Painting and Cinema

Author:   Mauro Carbone ,  Marta Nijhuis
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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9781438458793


Pages:   128
Publication Date:   01 October 2015
Format:   Hardback
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The Flesh of Images: Merleau-Ponty between Painting and Cinema


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Highlights Merleau-Ponty's interest in film and connects it to his aesthetic theory.

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Author:   Mauro Carbone ,  Marta Nijhuis
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:  

9781438458793


ISBN 10:   1438458797
Pages:   128
Publication Date:   01 October 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction: The Flesh and the Thinking of the Visual Today 1. Flesh: Toward the History of a Misunderstanding 2. It Takes a Long Time to Become Wild: Gauguin According to Merleau-Ponty, Merleau-Ponty According to Gauguin 3. ""Making Visible"": Merleau-Ponty and Paul Klee 4. The Philosopher and the Moviemaker: Merleau-Ponty and Cinematic Thinking 5. The Light of the Flesh: Anti-Platonistic Instances and Neoplatonic Traces in the Later Merleau-Ponty's Thinking 6. The Sensible Ideas Between Life and Philosophy Notes Index"

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Carbone reveals the invisible in Merleau-Ponty with musical grace and resonance. - Phenomenological Reviews The elegant style of Carbone's prose-crafted with a certain cadence and phrasing, an inimitable world of language-nevertheless does not conceal the complexity of his scholarly research. - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews


The elegant style of Carbone's prose-crafted with a certain cadence and phrasing, an inimitable world of language-nevertheless does not conceal the complexity of his scholarly research. - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews


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Mauro Carbone is Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lyon 3 and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His books include An Unprecedented Deformation: Marcel Proust and the Sensible Ideas (translated by Niall Keane), also published by SUNY Press. Marta Nijhuis is Lecturer in Philosophy and Theory of Images at the University of Lyon 3 and at EAC Lyon.

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