Title: Merleau-Ponty : difference, materiality, painting /
Authors: Fóti, Véronique Marion.
Publisher: Humanities Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Merleau-Ponty, Maurice,; Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, Aesthetics.; Difference (Philosophy); Matter; Painting
Abstract: Veronique Foti presents a collection of current American and European scholarship on the important foci in the thought of Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961): the problematic of difference as understood in post-Heideggerian and poststructuralist thought, the thematization of materiality, and the ontology and theory of painting. Although the three sections contain essays written from a wide spectrum of viewpoints, they emphasize, respectively, the important connections of Merleau-Ponty's thought to that of Derrida and Levinas, the Husserlian heritage and complex implications of his philosophy of material existence, and the relation of his philosophy of painting to contemporary abstract art. A distinguishing feature of this collection is its emphasis on contemporaneity. Although aimed at a readership in contemporary European philosophy, scholars interested in the theory of painting, including artists and art critics, will find the collection of interest.
Contents: 1. Merleau-Ponty and Nietzsche on the Visible and the Invisible / Bernard Flynn -- 2. At the Limits of Phenomenology: Merleau-Ponty and Derrida / Wayne J. Froman -- 3. Merleau-Ponty and Bergson: The Character of the Phenomenal Field / Dorothea Olkowski -- 4. Misunderstanding the Other / Pierre Kerszberg -- 5. The Body Postured and Dissolute / Alphonso Lingis -- 6. Matter, Dream, and the Murmurs among Things / Glen Mazis -- 7. Reflections on Earth and World: Merleau-Ponty's Project of Transcendental History and Transcendental Geology / Anthony J. Steinbock -- 8. Ploughing the Delirium / Yfat Hachamovitch -- 9. Traces of the Sublime: Visibility, Expressivity, and the Unconscious / Hugh J. Silverman -- 10. The Evidence of Painting: Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Abstraction / Veronique M. Foti -- 11. Thinking in Color: Merleau-Ponty and Paul Klee / Galen A. Johnson -- 12. Painting, Perception, Affectivity / Michel Haar.