The Retrieval of the Beautiful: Thinking Through Merleau-Ponty's Aesthetics

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ISBN
9780810125643
Subject Area
Philosophy
Publication Name
Retrieval of the Beautiful : Thinking Through Merleau-Ponty's Aesthetics
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Item Length
9.3 in
Subject
Individual Philosophers, General
Publication Year
2009
Series
Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Ser.
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
0.9 in
Author
Galen A. Johnson
Item Weight
19.3 Oz
Item Width
6.3 in
Number of Pages
312 Pages
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Publisher
Northwestern University Press
ISBN-10
0810125641
ISBN-13
9780810125643
eBay Product ID (ePID)
72989930

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
312 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Retrieval of the Beautiful : Thinking Through Merleau-Ponty's Aesthetics
Publication Year
2009
Subject
Individual Philosophers, General
Type
Textbook
Author
Galen A. Johnson
Subject Area
Philosophy
Series
Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
19.3 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in

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Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2009-027736
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
111/.85092
Synopsis
In this elegant new study Galen Johnson retrieves the concept of the beautiful through the framework of Merleau-Ponty's aesthetics. Although Merleau-Ponty seldom spoke directly of beauty, his philosophy is essentially about the beautiful. In Johnson's formulation, the ontology of Flesh as element and the ontology of the Beautiful as elemental are folded together, for Desire, Love, and Beauty are part of the fabric of the world's element, Flesh itself, the term at which Merleau-Ponty arrived to replace Substance, Matter, or Life as the name of Being. Merleau-Ponty's Eye and Mind is at the core of the book, so Johnson engages, as Merleau-Ponty did, the writings and visual work of Paul Cézanne, Auguste Rodin, and Paul Klee, as well as Rilke's commentary on Cézanne and Rodin. From these widely varying aesthetics emerge the fundamental themes of the retrieval of the beautiful: desire, repetition, difference, rhythm, and the sublime. The third part of Johnson's book takes each of these up in turn, bringing Merleau-Ponty's aesthetic thinking into dialogue with classical philosophy as well as Sartre, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Deleuze. Johnson concludes his final chapter with a direct dialogue with Kant and Merleau-Ponty, and also Lyotard, on the subject of the beautiful and the sublime. As we experience with Rodin's Balzac , beauty and the sublime blend into one another when the beautiful grows powerful, majestic, mysterious, and transcendent., In this elegant new study Galen Johnson retrieves the concept of the beautiful through the framework of Merleau-Ponty's aesthetics. Although Merleau-Ponty seldom spoke directly of beauty, his philosophy is essentially about the beautiful. In Johnson's formulation, the ontology of Flesh as element and the ontology of the Beautiful as elemental are folded together, for Desire, Love, and Beauty are part of the fabric of the world's element, Flesh itself, the term at which Merleau-Ponty arrived to replace Substance, Matter, or Life as the name of Being. Merleau-Ponty's Eye and Mind is at the core of the book, so Johnson engages, as Merleau-Ponty did, the writings and visual work of Paul Cezanne, Auguste Rodin, and Paul Klee, as well as Rilke's commentary on Cezanne and Rodin. From these widely varying aesthetics emerge the fundamental themes of the retrieval of the beautiful: desire, repetition, difference, rhythm, and the sublime. The third part of Johnson's book takes each of these up in turn, bringing Merleau-Ponty's aesthetic thinking into dialogue with classical philosophy as well as Sartre, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Deleuze. Johnson concludes his final chapter with a direct dialogue with Kant and Merleau-Ponty, and also Lyotard, on the subject of the beautiful and the sublime. As we experience with Rodin's Balzac , beauty and the sublime blend into one another when the beautiful grows powerful, majestic, mysterious, and transcendent., In this elegant new study Galen Johnson retrieves the concept of the beautiful through the framework of Merleau-Ponty's aesthetics. Although Merleau-Ponty seldom spoke directly of beauty, his philosophy is essentially about the beautiful.
LC Classification Number
B2430.M3764J64 2010

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