Merleau-Ponty at the Limits of Art, Religion, and Perception

by Semonovitch, Kascha; DeRoo, Neal

• ISBN13: 9781441119766
• ISBN10: 1441119760
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-20
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This book poses the question of what lies at the limit of philosophy. Through close studies of French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty's life and work, the authors examine one of the twentieth century's most interdisciplinary philosophers whose thought intersected with and contributed to the practices of art, psychology, literature, faith and philosophy. As these essays show, Merleau-Ponty's oeuvre disrupts traditional disciplinary boundaries and prompts his readers to ask what, exactly, constitutes philosophy and its others.

Author Biography

Kascha Semonovitch is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Seattle University, USA, and received her PhD in philosophy at Boston College, USA. She is the co-editor of Phenomenologies of the Stranger (Fordham, forthoming 2010). Neal DeRoo teaches philosophy at Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada. He is the co-editor of Cross and Khra: Deconstruction and Christianity in the work of John D. Caputo (Pickwick, 2009), Phenomenology and Eschatology: Not Yet in the Now (Ashgate, 2009), and The Logic of Incarnation: James K. A. Smith's Critique of Postmodern Religion (Pickwick. 2008).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Notes on Editors and Contributors	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Limits of Art
Freeing the Line	p. 21
Merleau-Ponty and Cézanne on Painting	p. 30
Merleau-Ponty and Kant's Third Critique. The Beautiful and the Sublime	p. 41
Limits of Perception
Skill and the Critique of Descartes in Gilbert Ryle and Maurice Merleau-Ponty	p. 63
Phantom Limbs and Phantom Worlds: Being Responsive to the Present	p. 79
Limits of Temporality and Phenomenology
L'écart: Merleau-Ponty's Separation from Husserl; Or, Absolute Time Constituting Consciousness	p. 95
Time at the Depth of the World	p. 120
Limits of Faith and Sacramentality
Merleau-Ponty and the Sacramentality of the Flesh	p. 147
Merleau-Ponty and Modernist Sacrificial Poetics: A Response to Richard Kearney	p. 167
'Faith is in things not seen': Merleau-Ponty on Faith, Virtù, and the Perception of Style	p. 185
Bibliography of Works	p. 208
Index	p. 211
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