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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 Stephane Mallarme, the paintings of Paul
Cezanne, 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' master-works,
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 exhilarating new contexts in which to approach art,
philosophy, and the resonance between them.
The concept of chiasm has played major role in continental
philosophy, where it has referred to various phenomenological and
hermeneutic structures of reversibility, intertwining, and
encounter. In Chiasmatic Encounters: Art, Ethics, Politics,
fourteen international contributors representing various fields of
expertise analyze this central concept and its significance for
contemporary cultural theory. The authors discuss the work of major
philosophers like Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir, Habermas, Levinas,
Derrida, and Deleuze, adapting their ideas of chiasmatic relations
to cultural analysis. As the internal and external horizons of
perception and experience are intertwined and reversed, various
cultural texts, like a Vermeer painting, a symphony of Sibelius, a
David Lynch movie, or a young girl walking in her summer dress, are
seen from new and unexpected angles. The book also addresses the
chiasmatic crossing between ethics and politics-- between
unconditional ethical responsibility and always conditional
political choices. Representing the cutting edge of contemporary
cultural theory and interdisciplinary thinking, Chiasmatic
Encounters is essential reading for anyone working in continental
philosophy, aesthetics, or political theory.
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 Stephane Mallarme, the paintings of Paul
Cezanne, 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.
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