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Merleau-Ponty and the face of the world : silence, ethics, imagination, and poetic ontology / Glen A. Mazis.
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Mazis, Glen A., 1951-
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English
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Albany : SUNY Press, [2016]
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xxviii, 386 pages ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
B2430.M3764 M39 2016
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Merleau-Ponty, Maurice 1908-1961
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : Merleau-Ponty's warning of an "endless nightmare"
Part I Entering the world of expressive silence
Hearkening to silence : Merleau-Ponty beyond postmodernism
Language as a power for error and violence
A difference silence and the world's gesture
Silence, the depth of the flesh and its movement
Silence sings as we do when happy : charged evanescence
Language can live only from its roots in silence
Indirect expression as silence entering language
Silence, duration, and vertical time
Silence arrives at the first day
Part II Faces of the world : desiring sensibility and ethics
Physiognomic sense and faces within the world
The face of desire
Merleau-Ponty's face of this world and Levinas's face of the other world
Perceptual otherness, not absolute otherness
An ethics of flesh : Saint-Exupéry, Merleau-Ponty, and felt solidarity
Lateral unity versus vertical identity : kinship versus substitution
The ethical alterity of depth of this world rather than absolute height
Part III The imaginal, oneiric marteriality, and poetic language
Early implied physiognomic imagination
Sketches of the imaginal in myth, film, and children
Imaginal of institution, sensible ideas, and Proustian sensitivity
Later writings : toward an imaginal ontology
Bachelard's material imagination and flesh of the world
Toward a poetic ontology
A poetics of philosophy
Conclusion : sense and solidarity at the depths of world.
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ISBN
9781438462318 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
143846231X ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
9781438462301 ((paperback ; : alk. paper))
1438462301 ((paperback ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016005986
OCLC
947816298
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40026459012
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