Question of painting : re-thinking thought with Merleau-Ponty /: re-thinking thought with Merleau-Ponty. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jorella Andrews.
• Authors: Andrews, Jorella
• Contents: AcknowledgementsList of Images INTRODUCTION: Painting as ThoughtQuestionsRethinking thoughtMerleau-Ponty's trans-dimensional investigations An incarnational logic'Digging in the same place' - Merleau-Ponty's broad project PART ONE: Painting - Re-thinking Thought beyond Dualism and Positivism 1 'Nature' and 'Consciousness'- Merleau-Ponty's Critical Encounter with Dualism Broken? The problems of rationalism and empiricism The naïve consciousness and its reconstructive powers The significance of Gestalt Describing behaviour ­- its limitations and scope2 The Symbolic Forms and the Question of Integrated Being Obstacles The three forms of behaviour Beyond inherited structuresPART TWO: Painting - Re-Thinking Thought as Perceptual and Embodied 3 Description and the Re-education of Sight How to start again Embodied perception - our only access to the real? Description: the first philosophical act Into the base of 'inhuman' nature 4 Embodied Thought How do bodies think? Peculiar permanence The body in its intentional beingIntersubjectivity, intercorporeality and otherness - foundational hospitalityPART THREE: Painting - Re-Thinking Thought as 'Silence' and 'Speech' 5 The Being of Language, Reconceived A new index of curvatureMerleau-Ponty and the priority of expression SyntaxLanguage, truth and 'universality' 6 Visual Language and the 'Unity' of Painting Modern painting and the paradoxes of communicationCultures of display and debate - renegotiating particularity-generalityPART FOUR: Painting - Re-Thinking Thought as 'Secret Science' 7 Visibility, the 'Flesh' of the World The 'common stuff … is the visible'The visible and the invisibleIndirect ontology and anonymous visibilityChiasm, illusion, dis-illusionImmersive thought and 'having at a distance' 8 Visual Treatises and the Search for Depth Painterly thought as secret scienceIntermundane spaceDepth of being and bodyThe painter's effort and the fragility of the real Visual treatisesBibliographyIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 750; Philosophy: aesthetics; Painting; Art -- Philosophy; ART / Techniques / Painting; Philosophy -- Aesthetics; Philosophy -- Movements -- Phenomenology; Phenomenology & Existentialism; Electronic books; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781472574305; 1472574303
• Related ISBNs: 1472574281; 9781472574282
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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