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Understanding Merleau-Ponty, understanding modernism /

Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism revises the concept of modernism by examining the kinship of method and concern between Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and modernist art, literature, film and neurophysiological discoveries, opening up the complexities of the philosoph...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mildenberg, Ariane, 1971- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Colección:Understanding philosophy, understanding modernism
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Series Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "The Surface of a Depth"; Part One: Conceptualizing Merleau-Ponty; Part Two: Merleau-Ponty, Aesthetics, and the Lived Body; Part Three: Glossary; Notes; Part One: Conceptualizing Merleau-Ponty; Chapter 1: Merleau-Ponty's Cogito; L'Être au monde and L'Être à soi; Against Descartes; Thought and language; Self-consciousness; Notes; Chapter 2: On "The Philosopher and His Shadow"; Notes; Chapter 3: A Reading of "In Praise of Philosophy": How Bergson Conceived Our Relation to the Truth
  • AttunementMerleau-Ponty and modernism, the true, and the past; The "modern" of modern philosophy to which modernism and Merleau-Ponty react; Merleau-Ponty's philosophy and expression; Notes; Chapter 4: "Hooks" and "Anchors": Cézanne, the Lived Perspective, and Modernist Doubt; Entering; Modernist doubt; Hooks and anchors; Freedom: Incomplete germination; Notes; Chapter 5: The Artist's Gestures of Fascination; Introduction: The fascination of the artistin Merleau-Ponty and Woolf; The painter's fascination by the world in "Eye and Mind."
  • Virginia Woolf's artist in To the Lighthouse and Merleau-Ponty's "Flesh of the World"Notes; Chapter 6: "I Must Be Surprised, Disoriented": Merleau-Ponty on Language as Disruptive Movement; Embodied machinery and expressive language; Divergencies in/of speech: Toward new meaning; Language as disrupting movement: "At a certain stage I must be surprised, disoriented"; Unfinished thoughts, incomplete speech; Notes; Chapter 7: Neither/Nor: Merleau-Ponty's Ontology in "The Intertwining/The Chiasm"; The visible and the invisible; Beyond intuition and reflection; "The Intertwining/The Chiasm."
  • Criticisms of Merleau-Ponty's ontology in "The Intertwining/The Chiasm"Notes; Part Two: Merleau-Ponty, Aesthetics, and the Lived Body; Chapter 8: Phenomenology and the Imagination; Modernism, phenomenology, and Merleau-Ponty; Imagination, Cézanne, and embodied expression; Horizonality, the indeterminacy of the perceptual field, and the "halo" of things; Phenomenological abstraction: Modernism beyond Cézanne; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 9: The Systems of Equivalencies in Matisse and Klee: Merleau-Ponty's Ontology of Modern Painting in "Eye and Mind"; Systems of equivalences
  • The first system of equivalence: Line and colorThe second system of equivalence: Between line and sign; Some final remarks; Notes; Chapter 10: Merleau-Ponty on Simultaneity and Succession: The Turn to Music through Proust and Claudel; Notes; Chapter 11: Merleau-Ponty and Film: Documenting the Imagination; Perception from painting to film; Between perception and imagination; Documenting the imagination; Notes; Chapter 12: Motricité, Physiology, and Modernity in Phenomenology of Perception; Introduction; The "problem" of motricité; Automatism, physiology, and aesthetics