The Merleau Ponty Aesthetics Reader

The Merleau Ponty Aesthetics Reader
Author: Maurice Merleau-Ponty,Michael B. Smith
Publsiher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 438
Release: 1993
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780810110748

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Merleau-Ponty's essays on aesthetics are some of the major accomplishments of his philosophical career, and rank even today among the most sophisticated reflections on art in all of twentieth-century philosophy. His essays on painting, "Cezanne's Doubt" (1945), "Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence" (1952), and "Eye and Mind" (1960), have inspired new approaches to epistemology, ontology, and the philosophy of history. Galen A. Johnson has gathered these essays for the first time into a single volume and augmented them with essays by distinguished scholars and artists, including M.C. Dillon, Mikel Dufrenne, and René Magritte. Together the essays demonstrate the continuing significance of Merleau-Ponty's ideas about art for contemporary philosophy on both sides of the Atlantic.

C zanne s Doubt

C  zanne s Doubt
Author: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2007
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: OCLC:606638066

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Merleau Ponty s C zanne

Merleau Ponty s C  zanne
Author: Augustinus Miri
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2018-07-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1717767443

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This book is an attempt to show Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology as a critique on the doubt of the thought that enables the infinity of perception. The book seeks to illustrate how Cézanne's unique color modulations both remove the necessity of the line and Cézanne's doubt of himself, unlike Descartes' cognito. With illustrations it explains how the infinity of perception is what creates our world of surfaces, but science claims as an illusion.

Merleau Ponty s C zanne

Merleau Ponty s C  zanne
Author: Augustinus Miri
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2021-09-26
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 9798478954505

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This book is an attempt to show Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology as a critique on the doubt of the thought that enables the infinity of perception. The book seeks to illustrate how Cézanne's unique color modulations both remove the necessity of the line and Cézanne's doubt of himself, unlike Descartes' Cognito. It explicates how the infinity of perception creates our world of surfaces that science claims are an illusion.

The Question of Painting

The Question of Painting
Author: Jorella Andrews
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Academic
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2018-11-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781472574282

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Since the latter half of the 20th century, committed art has been associated with conceptual, critical and activist practices. Painting, by contrast, is all too often defined as an outmoded, reactionary, market-led venture; an ineffectual medium from the perspective of social and political engagement. How can paintings change the world today? The question of painting, in particular, fuelled the investigations of a major 20th-century philosopher: the French phenomenologist, Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1907-61). Merleau-Ponty was at the forefront of attempts to place philosophy on a new footing by contravening the authority of Cartesian dualism and objectivist thought-an authority that continues to limit present-day intellectual, imaginative, and ethical possibilities. A central aim of The Question of Painting is to provide a closely focused, chronological account of his unfolding project and its relationship with art, clarifying how painting, as a paradigmatically embodied and situated mode of investigation, helped him to access the fundamentally “intercorporeal” basis of reality as he saw it, and articulate its lived implications. With an exclusive and extended conversation about the contemporary virtues of painting with New York based artist Leah Durner, for whom the work of Merleau-Ponty is an important source of inspiration, The Question of Painting brings today's much debated concerns about the criticality of painting into contact with the question of painting in philosophy.

C zanne s Gravity

C  zanne s Gravity
Author: Carol Armstrong
Publsiher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2018-11-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780300232714

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A transformative study, freeing the artist from outdated art historical narratives and revealing his work as newly strange again Cézanne’s Gravity is an ambitious reassessment of the paintings of Paul Cézanne (1839–1906). Whereas previous studies have often looked at the artist’s work for its influence on his successors and on the development of abstraction, Carol Armstrong untethers it from this timeline, examining Cézanne’s painting as a phenomenological and intellectual endeavor. Armstrong uses an interdisciplinary approach to analyze Cézanne’s work, pairing the painter with artists and thinkers who came after him, including Roger Fry, Virginia Woolf, Albert Einstein, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Rainer Maria Rilke, R. D. Laing, and Helen Frankenthaler. Through these pairings, Armstrong addresses diverse subjects that illuminate Cézanne’s painting, from the nonlinear narratives of modernist literature and the ways in which space and time act on objects, to color sensation and the schizophrenic mind. Cézanne’s Gravity attends to both the physicality of the artist’s works and the weight they bear on the history of art. This distinctive study not only invites its readers to view Cézanne’s paintings with fresh eyes but also offers a new methodology for art historical inquiry outside linear narratives, one truly fitting for our time.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

Maurice Merleau Ponty
Author: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Publsiher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2004
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0415315875

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This is the first volume to bring together a comprehensive selection of Merleau-Ponty's writing. It presents a cross-section of his work that clearly shows the historical progression of his ideas and influence.

The Rhythm of Thought

The Rhythm of Thought
Author: Jessica Wiskus
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2015-03-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780226274256

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Between present and past, visible and invisible, and sensation and idea, there is resonance—so philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty argued and so Jessica Wiskus explores in The Rhythm of Thought. Holding the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé, the paintings of Paul Cézanne, the prose of Marcel Proust, and the music of Claude Debussy under Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological light, she offers innovative interpretations of some of these artists’ masterworks, in turn articulating a new perspective on Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy. More than merely recovering Merleau-Ponty’s thought, Wiskus thinks according to it. First examining these artists in relation to noncoincidence—as silence in poetry, depth in painting, memory in literature, and rhythm in music—she moves through an array of their artworks toward some of Merleau-Ponty’s most exciting themes: our bodily relationship to the world and the dynamic process of expression. She closes with an examination of synesthesia as an intertwining of internal and external realms and a call, finally, for philosophical inquiry as a mode of artistic expression. Structured like a piece of music itself, The Rhythm of Thought offers new contexts in which to approach art, philosophy, and the resonance between them.