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Tracing Expression in Merleau-Ponty : Aesthetics, Philosophy of Biology, and Ontology /

In this book, the author addresses the guiding yet neglected theme of expression in Merleau-Ponty's thought. She traces Merleau-Ponty's ideas about how individuals express creative or artistic impulses through his three essays on aesthetics, his engagement with animality and "new biol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Fóti, Veronique Marion
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Expression in Merleau-Ponty's aesthetics. Primordial perception and artistic expression : Merleau-Ponty and Cézanne ; Expression, institution, and the field : a searching itinerary ; Painterly and phenomenological interrogation in "Eye and mind"
  • Expression in animal life. The expressivity of animal behavior : embryogenesis and environing worlds ; The expressivity of animal appearance and of directive and instinctual activities
  • Expression in Merleau-Ponty's ontology. The role of expression in Merleau-Ponty's dialogue with the rationalists ; The irreducibility of expression : Merleau-Ponty's ontology and its wider implications
  • Concluding thoughts.