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Question of painting : re-thinking thought with Merleau-Ponty /
Since the latter half of the 20th century, committed art has been associated with conceptual, critical and activist practices. Painting, by contrast, is all too often defined as an outmoded, reactionary, market-led venture; an ineffectual medium from the perspective of social and political engagemen...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2017.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- AcknowledgementsList of Images INTRODUCTION: Painting as ThoughtQuestionsRethinking thoughtMerleau-Ponty's trans-dimensional investigations An incarnational logic'Digging in the same place'
- Merleau-Ponty's broad project PART ONE: Painting
- Re-thinking Thought beyond Dualism and Positivism 1 'Nature' and 'Consciousness'- Merleau-Ponty's Critical Encounter with Dualism Broken? The problems of rationalism and empiricism The naïve consciousness and its reconstructive powers The significance of Gestalt Describing behaviour - its limitations and scope2 The Symbolic Forms and the Question of Integrated Being Obstacles The three forms of behaviour Beyond inherited structuresPART TWO: Painting
- Re-Thinking Thought as Perceptual and Embodied 3 Description and the Re-education of Sight How to start again Embodied perception
- our only access to the real? Description: the first philosophical act Into the base of 'inhuman' nature 4 Embodied Thought How do bodies think? Peculiar permanence The body in its intentional beingIntersubjectivity, intercorporeality and otherness
- foundational hospitalityPART THREE: Painting
- Re-Thinking Thought as 'Silence' and 'Speech' 5 The Being of Language, Reconceived A new index of curvatureMerleau-Ponty and the priority of expression SyntaxLanguage, truth and 'universality' 6 Visual Language and the 'Unity' of Painting Modern painting and the paradoxes of communicationCultures of display and debate
- renegotiating particularity-generalityPART FOUR: Painting
- Re-Thinking Thought as 'Secret Science' 7 Visibility, the 'Flesh' of the World The 'common stuff ... is the visible'The visible and the invisibleIndirect ontology and anonymous visibilityChiasm, illusion, dis-illusionImmersive thought and 'having at a distance' 8 Visual Treatises and the Search for Depth Painterly thought as secret scienceIntermundane spaceDepth of being and bodyThe painter's effort and the fragility of the real Visual treatisesBibliographyIndex.