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Description

Phenomenology and the Arts develops the interplay between phenomenology as a historical movement and a descriptive method within Continental philosophy and the arts. Divided into five themes, the book explores first how the phenomenological method itself is a kind of artistic endeavor that mirrors what it approaches when it turns to describe paintings, dramas, literature, and music. From there, the book turns to an analysis and commentary on specific works of art within the visual arts, literature, music, and sculpture. Contributors analyze important historical figures in phenomenology—Kant, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty. But there is also a good deal of work on art itself—Warhol, Klee, jazz, and contemporary and renaissance artists and artworks.
Edited by Peter R. Costello and Licia Carlson, this book will be of interest to students in philosophy, the arts, and the humanities in general, and scholars of phenomenology will notice incredibly rich, groundbreaking research that helps to resituate canonical figures in phenomenology with respect to what their works can be used to describe.

Table of Contents

Introduction Peter R. Costello

Overview Licia Carlson

Phenomenological Method

Chapter 1 Phenomenological Description and Artistic Expression
John Russon

Chapter 2 On the Possibility of the 'Purity' and Primacy of Art: A Phenomenological Analysis Based in Merleau-Ponty, Husserl, and Kant
Galen A. Johnson

Chapter 3 In the Interest of Art
John Lysaker

Chapter 4 Between Fabrication and Form: Heidegger's Phenomenology of the Work
of Art
Brian Rogers


Visual Arts

Chapter 5 Husserl, Expressionism, and the Eidetic Impulse in Brücke's Woodcut
Christian Lotz

Chapter 6 Blind Narcissism: Derrida, Klee, and Merleau-Ponty on the Line
Scott Marratto

Chapter 7 Perceptual Openness and Institutional Closure in the Contemporary
Artworks of Luis Jacob and Phillip Buntin
Kirsten Jacobson


Literature

Chapter 8 An Organism of Words: Merleau-Ponty on Embodiment, Language and
Literature
Susan Bredlau


Chapter 9 Questioning the Material of Meaning: Merleau-Ponty, Adorno,

Product details

Published Sep 30 2016
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 360
ISBN 9781498506519
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 11 b/w illustrations;
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

A. Licia Carlson

Anthology Editor

Peter Costello

Contributor

John Russon

Contributor

John Lysaker

Contributor

Brian Rogers

Contributor

Christian Lotz

Contributor

Scott Marratto

Contributor

Susan Bredlau

Contributor

Laura McMahon

Contributor

Jeff Morrisey

Contributor

Matthew Goodwin

Contributor

David Ciavatta

Contributor

Peter Costello

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