Tracing expression in Merleau-Ponty : aesthetics, philosophy of biology, and ontology /

The French philosopher Renaud Barbaras remarked that late in Maurice Merleau-Ponty's career, The phenomenology of perception fulfills itself as a philosophy of expression. In Tracing Expression in Merleau-Ponty: Aesthetics, Philosophy of Biology, and Ontology, Véronique M. Fóti addresses the gu...

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Main Authors: Fóti, Véronique Marion (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Fóti, Véronique Marion (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, c2013
Evanston, Ill. : ©2013
Evanston, Ill. : 2013
Series:Northwestern University studies in phenomenology & existential philosophy
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Expression in Merleau-Ponty's aesthetics
  • 1. Primordial perception and artistic expression: Merleau-Ponty and Cezanne
  • 2. Expression, institution, and the field: a searching itinerary
  • 3. Painterly and phenomenological interrogation in "Eye and mind"
  • Part 2. Expression in animal life
  • 4. The expressivity of animal behavior: embryogenesis and environing worlds
  • 5. The expressivity of animal appearance and of directive and instinctual activities
  • Part 3. Expression in Merleau-Ponty's ontology
  • 6. The role of expression in Merleau-Ponty's dialogue with the rationalists
  • 7. The irreducibility of expression: Merleau-Ponty's ontology and its wider implications
  • Concluding thoughts
  • note: pt. 1 Expression in Merleau-Ponty's Aesthetics
  • 1 Primordial Perception and Artistic Expression: Merleau-Ponty and Cezanne
  • 2. Expression, Institution, and the Field: A Searching Itinerary
  • 3. Painterly and Phenomenological Interrogation in "Eye and Mind"
  • pt. 2 Expression in Animal Life
  • 4. Expressivity of Animal Behavior: Embryogenesis and Environing Worlds
  • 5. Expressivity of Animal Appearance and of Directive and Instinctual Activities
  • pt. 3 Expression in Merleau-Ponty's Ontology
  • 6. Role of Expression in Merleau-Ponty's Dialogue with the Rationalists
  • 7. Irreducibility of Expression: Merleau-Ponty's Ontology and Its Wider Implications.
  • Part 1. Expression in Merleau-Ponty's aesthetics
  • 1. Primordial perception and artistic expression: Merleau-Ponty and Cezanne
  • 2. Expression, institution, and the field: a searching itinerary
  • 3. Painterly and phenomenological interrogation in "Eye and mind"
  • Part 2. Expression in animal life
  • 4. The expressivity of animal behavior: embryogenesis and environing worlds
  • 5. The expressivity of animal appearance and of directive and instinctual activities
  • Part 3. Expression in Merleau-Ponty's ontology
  • 6. The role of expression in Merleau-Ponty's dialogue with the rationalists
  • 7. The irreducibility of expression: Merleau-Ponty's ontology and its wider implications
  • Concluding thoughts