Merleau-Ponty's Poetic of the World : : Philosophy and Literature / / Galen A. Johnson, Emmanuel de Saint Aubert, Mauro Carbone.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• VerfasserIn: Johnson, Galen A.,; Carbone, Mauro,; Saint Aubert, Emmanuel de,
• MitwirkendeR: Carbone, Mauro,; Johnson, Galen A.,; de Saint Aubert, Emmanuel,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Abbreviations of Works by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Other Writers --; Introduction --; PART I: MERLEAU-PONTY' S POETS --; 1 "The Proustian Corporeity" and "The True Hawthorns": Merleau-Ponty as a Reader of Proust between Husserl and Benjamin --; 2 A Poetics of Co-Naissance: Via André Breton, Paul Claudel, and Claude Simon --; 3 From the World of Silence to Poetic Language: Merleau-Ponty and Valéry --; PART II: MERLEAU-PONTY' S POETICS --; 4 The Clouded Surface: Literature and Philosophy as Visual Apparatuses According to Merleau-Ponty --; 5 Metaphoricity: Carnal Infrastructures and Ontological Horizons --; 6 On the Poetic and the True --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780823288151; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704822; 9783110704648; 9783110722710
• DOI: 10.1515/9780823288151?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Galen A. Johnson, Emmanuel de Saint Aubert, Mauro Carbone.

Merleau-Ponty has long been known as one of the most important philosophers of aesthetics, yet most discussions of his aesthetics focus on visual art. This book corrects that balance by turning to Merleau-Ponty's extensive engagement with literature.From Proust, Merleau-Ponty developed his conception of "sensible ideas," from Claudel, his conjoining of birth and knowledge as "co-naissance," from Valéry came "implex" or the "animal of words" and the "chiasma of two destinies." Literature also provokes the questions of expression, metaphor, and truth and the meaning of a Merleau-Pontian poetics.The poetic of Merleau-Ponty is, the book argues, a poetic of the flesh, a poetic of mystery, and a poetic of the visible in its relation to the invisible. Ultimately, theoretical figures or "figuratives" that appear at the threshold between philosophy and literature enable the possibility of a new ontology. What is at stake is the very meaning of philosophy itself and its mode of expression.