The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810110748)

Merleau-Ponty's essays on aesthetics are some of the major accomplishments of his philosophical career, and rank even today among the most sophisticated reflections on art in all of twentieth-century philosophy. His essays on painting, "Cezanne's Doubt" (1945), "Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence" (1952), and "Eye and Mind" (1960), have inspired new approaches to epistemology, ontology, and the philosophy of history. Galen A. Johnson has gathered these essays for the first time into a single volume and augmented them with essays by distinguished scholars and artists, including M.C. Dillon, Mikel Dufrenne, and René Magritte. Together the essays demonstrate the continuing significance of Merleau-Ponty's ideas about art for contemporary philosophy on both sides of the Atlantic.


Author: Galen A. Johnson
ISBN-10: 0810110741
ISBN-13: 9780810110748
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/05/1994
Pages: 422
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 8.39h x 6.75w x 1.13d