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Chiasmatic encounters : art, ethics, politics /

In this book, fourteen international authors across various fields analyze the concept of chiasm and its role in human perception and experience, discussing the work of major philosophers like Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Derrida, and Deleuze, and adapting their ideas to cultural analysis.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Korhonen, Kuisma, 1964- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]
Series:Textures (Lanham, Md.)
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Chiasmatic Encounters; CONTENTS; Abbreviations; General Introduction: Rereading Chiasms; PART ONE: Chiasmatic Art: Between Visibility and Ideality; Introduction; 1 Merleau-Ponty, the Girl with a Pearl Earring, and I; 2 The Chiasmatic Metropolis: Merleau-Pontyâ#x80;#x99;s â#x80;#x9C;Invisibleâ#x80;#x9D; as a Source of Inspiration for Artistic Creativity; 3 Time as Chiasm: Listening for Ideality through Sibelius; 4 Chiasms in Art; PART TWO: Becoming Deleuze; Introduction; 5 Sartre, Deleuze and the Ontology of Makeup; 6 Black Screen, White Noise: Beyond the Face in David Lynchâ#x80;#x99;s Lost Highway
  • PART THREE: Ethical EncountersIntroduction; 7 Could the Caress Be the Necessary Third Term in the Chiasmatic Encounter?; 8 Chiasmatic Ethical Encounters; 9 On the Ethical Significance of Encountering the Otherness of Literary Worlds; 10 How to Read a Work of Art: Disclosing the World Between Phenomenology and Deconstruction; PART FOUR: Does Politics Need Ethics? Does Ethics Need Politics?; Introduction; 11 Does Politics Need Ethics? Some Existential Meditations; 12 Why Ethics Needs Politics: A Cosmopolitan Perspective (With a Little Help from Kant)
  • 13 Chiasmatic Reasoning: Strategies of Self-Immunization in Jürgen HabermasNotes; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Topics; Contributors; Editors; Series Editor