Art and the Institution of Being: Aesthetics in the Late Works of Merleau-Ponty

174 Pages·2011·0.53 MB·English

by  Rajiv Kaushik

Art and Institution
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Art and institution: aesthetics in the late works of Merleau-Ponty / Rajiv Kaushik.
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1. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908–1961. 2. Aesthetics. I. Title. II. Title:
Aesthetics in the late works of Merleau-Ponty.
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Contents
List of Abbreviations viii
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Matisse in Slow Motion 28
Chapter 2 Art and Natural Being 59
Chapter 3 Proust and the Signifi cant Event 91
Chapter 4 A Figurative Dimension: Reversibility
Between the Arts 112
Concluding Remarks 131
Notes 139
Bibliography 156
Index 161
Abbreviations
EM Heidegger, Martin (1953) Einführung in die Metaphysik. Tübin-
gen: Niemeyer.
GA Heidegger, Martin (1975) Gesamtausgabe vol. 9, entitled Weg-
marken, edited by Friedrich-wilhelm von Herrmann. Franfk-
furt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann.
HLP Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Husserl at the Limits of Phenomenology,
edited by Leonard Lawlor and Bettina Bergo. Evanston: North-
western University.
IP Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (2003). L’institution et la passivité: Notes
de cours au Collège de France. Paris: Editions Belin.
IPP Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (1970) In Praise of Philosophy and Other
Essays, translated by John O’Neill. Evanston: Northwestern
University Press.
N Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (2003) Nature: Course Notes from the
Collège de France, translated by Robert Vallier. Evanston: North-
western University Press.
PP Merleau-Ponty (2003) Maurice Phenomenology of Perception,
translated by Colin Smith. London: Routledge Press.
PrP Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (1964) Primacy of Perception and Other
Essays, edited by James E. Edie. Evanston: Northwestern Uni-
versity Press.
PW Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (1973) Prose of the World, translated by
John O’Neill. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973.
S Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (1964) Signs, translated by Richard C.
McCleary. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.
Abbreviations ix
SNS Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (1964) Sense and Nonsense, translated
by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Patricia Allen Dreyfus. Evanston:
Northwestern University Press.
VI Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (1968) The Visible and the Invisible,
translated by Alphonso Lingis. Evanston: Northwestern Uni-
versity Press.
“Ursprung” Husserl, Edmund (1940) “Grundlegende Untersuchun-
gen zum phänomologischen Ursprung der Räumlichkeit der
Natur” in Philosophical Essays in Memory of Edmund Husserl.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press.