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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Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2013] |
Series: | Northwestern University studies in phenomenology & existential philosophy.
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Online Access: | Click here for full text at Project MUSE |
Table of Contents:
- 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.