Merleau-Ponty and the face of the world : silence, ethics, imagination, and poetic ontology / Glen A. Mazis.

Author
Mazis, Glen A., 1951- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Albany : SUNY Press, [2016]
Description
xxviii, 386 pages ; 24 cm

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    Bibliographic references
    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.
    ISBN
    • 9781438462318 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 143846231X ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 9781438462301 ((paperback ; : alk. paper))
    • 1438462301 ((paperback ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2016005986
    OCLC
    947816298
    Other standard number
    • 40026459012
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