Perceiving-Thinking-Writing: Merleau-Ponty and Literature.

Donald Wesling's leading argument, drawn from a crossover theory of the humanities, has philosophy and literature in a relation of constructive interference. What is common to both disciplines is the attempt to understand the necessary but often forgotten act of perceiving within the embodied m...

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Main Author: Wesling
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2024.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations of Texts by Merleau-Ponty
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: The Prodigious Search of Appearance
  • Chapter 2: Eye and Mind in Painting and Writing
  • Chapter 3: Ineinander: Energies of Interference
  • Chapter 4: Recovering the Subject in the Act of Speaking
  • and Writing
  • Chapter 5: Energies of Attention: Syntax in Depth
  • Chapter 6: Modes and Powers of Attention: Nine Terms from Merleau-Ponty
  • Chapter 7: Reading Poems and a Novel with the Nine Terms
  • Chapter 8: Ordinary Creativity
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on the author