Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism

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Overview

Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernismbrings into dialogue Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology with modernist art, literature, music, film and neurophysiological discoveries, opening up the complexities of the philosopher's phenomenology of perception to a broader audience across the arts.

An important resource for anyone interested in the links between modernism and philosophy, Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism offers close readings of Merleau-Ponty's key texts, explores modernist works in light of his thought, and provides an extended glossary of Merleau-Ponty's central terms and concepts.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781501365508
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 06/25/2020
Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism
Pages: 344
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.72(d)

About the Author

Ariane Mildenberg is Senior Lecturer in Modernism at the University of Kent, UK. She is the author of Modernism and Phenomenology: Literature, Philosophy, Art (2017) and co-editor of Phenomenology, Modernism and Beyond (2010).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors
Series Preface
Paul Ardoin, S. E. Gontarski, and Laci Mattison
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: "The Surface of a Depth"
Ariane Mildenberg (University of Kent, UK)

Part I. Conceptualizing Merleau-Ponty
1. Merleau-Ponty's Cogito
Thomas Baldwin (University of York, UK)
2. On "The Philosopher and His Shadow"
Kevin Hart (University of Virginia, USA)
3. A Reading of "In Praise of Philosophy": How Bergson Conceived Our Relation to the Truth
Michael R. Kelly (University of San Diego, USA)
4. "Hooks" and "Anchors": Cézanne, the Lived Perspective and Modernist Doubt
Ariane Mildenberg (University of Kent, UK)
5. The Artist's Gestures of Fascination in "Eye and Mind"
Glen Mazis (Penn State Harrisburg, USA)
6. "I Must be Surprised, Disoriented": Merleau-Ponty on Language as Disruptive Movement
Florentien Verhage (Washington and Lee University, USA)
7. Neither/Nor: Merleau-Ponty's Ontology in "The Intertwining/The Chiasm"
Jack Reynolds (La Trobe University, Australia)& Jon Roffe (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Part II. Merleau-Ponty, Aesthetics, and the Lived Body
8. Phenomenology and the Imagination of Modernism
Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei (Fordham University, USA)
9. The "Systems of Equivalences" in Matisse and Klee: Merleau-Ponty's Ontology of Modern Painting in "Eye and Mind"
Rajiv Kaushik (Brock University, Canada)
10. Merleau-Ponty on Simultaneity and Succession: The Turn to Music through Proust and Claudel
Jessica Wiskus (Duquesne University, USA)
11. Merleau-Ponty and Film: Documenting the Imagination
Sarah Cooper (King's College, University of London, UK)
12. Motricité, Physiology, and Modernity in Phenomenology of Perception
Mark Paterson (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
13. D. H. Lawrence, Merleau-Ponty and the Phenomenology of Illness
Ulrika Maude (University of Bristol, UK)
14. "Mirrors of Reciprocal Flesh": James Joyce and Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Cleo Hanaway-Oakley (Oxford University, UK)
15. Environmental Modernisms: Representing the Flesh of the World in Modernist Literature
Kelly Sultzbach (University of Wisconsin, USA)
16. Uncertain Humanisms: Energies of Environment in Bowen, Beckett and Merleau-Ponty
Amanda Dennis (Columbia University, USA)
17. Rhythmic Looking: Elizabeth Bishop's Poetry of Perception

18. Poetico-Phenomenological Intertwinings: The Elaboration of a Practice of Thought in Valéry and Merleau-Ponty

19. A Big Serious Portrait of My Time: Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Temporality and the Modernist Long Poem


Part III. Glossary
20. Body-subject

21. Flesh

22. Écart
Rajiv Kaushik(Brock University, Canada)
23. Wild (Brute) Being

24. Chiasm/Intertwining

25. Body Schema

26. Perceptual Faith

27. Lived Experience

28. Inter-world/

29.Ineinander
Jessica Wiskus(Duquesne University, USA)
30. Depth

31. Motor Intentionality

32. Speaking Speech and Spoken Speech

Index
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