Tracing expression in Merleau-Ponty : aesthetics, philosophy of biology, and ontology /
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Language: | English |
Imprint: | Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, [2013] |
Series: | Northwestern University studies in phenomenology & existential philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1. Expression in Merleau-Ponty's Aesthetics
- 1. Primordial Perception and Artistic Expression: Merleau-Ponty and Cézanne
- 2. Expression, Institution, and the Field: A Searching Itinerary
- 3. Painterly and Phenomenological Interrogation in "Eye and Mind"
- Part 2. Expression in Animal Life
- 4. The Expressivity of Animal Behavior: Embryogenesis and Environing Worlds
- 5. The Expressivity of Animal Appearance and of Directive and Instinctual Activities
- Part 3. Expression in Merleau-Ponty's Ontology
- 6. The Role of Expression in Merleau-Ponty's Dialogue with the Rationalists
- 7. The Irreducibility of Expression: Merleau-Ponty's Ontology and Its Wider Implications
- Concluding Thoughts
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index of Persons
- Index of Topics