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"Merleau-Ponty's essays on aesthetics are some of the major accomplishments of his philosophical career, and rank even today among the most sophisticated reflections on art in all of twentieth-century philosophy. His essays on painting, ""Cezanne's Doubt"" (1945), ""Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence"" (1952), and ""Eye and Mind"" (1960), have inspired new approaches to epistemology, ontology, and the philosophy of history. Galen A. Johnson has gathered these essays for the first time into a single volume and augmented them with essays by distinguished scholars and artists, including M.C. Dillon, Mikel Dufrenne, and René Magritte. Together the essays demonstrate the continuing significance of Merleau-Ponty's ideas about art for contemporary philosophy on both sides of the Atlantic."

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Author:   Galen A. Johnson ,  Michael B. Smith
Publisher:   Northwestern University Press
Imprint:   Northwestern University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 21.30cm
Weight:   0.588kg
ISBN:  

9780810110748

ISBN 10:   0810110741
Pages:   421
Publication Date:   31 December 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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GALEN A. JOHNSON is a professor of philosophy at the University of Rhode Island. He is the coeditor, with Michael B. Smith, of Ontology and Alterity in Merleau-Ponty (Northwestern University Press) and the author of Earth and Sky, His History and Philosophy: Island Images Inspired by Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. MICHAEL B. SMITH is an associate professor of French at Berry College and the translator of Michel de Certeau's Fable Mystique.

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