Merleau-Ponty at the Limits of Art, Religion and Perception seeks to answer the question of what lies at the limit of philosophy. The book traces the line between art and aesthetic judgment, psychology and philosophy, sacramentality and transcendence in Merleau-Ponty’s life and work. Featuring essays by an international team of leading scholars, this book examines Merleau-Ponty’s growing influence in art, cognitive science, psychology and religion. The result is a renewed understanding of the limits of each of these fields: in art, when the line ceases to be a line and becomes a work of art, and when art ceases to be art alone and manifests a philosophy; in religion, when sensuality transfigures into sacramentality or faith becomes religion; in philosophy, when the subject ceases to be merely temporal, but becomes temporality; and in psychology and cognitive science, when perception becomes normative, when our bodies go beyond physical extension to become places of skill and feeling, when theory becomes therapy, practice or habit.
Author(s): Kascha Semonovitch Snavely, Neal Deroo
Publisher: Continuum
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 224
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Notes on Editors and Contributors......Page 9
Introduction......Page 12
Part I: Limits of Art......Page 30
1. Freeing the Line......Page 32
2. Merleau-Ponty and Cézanne on Painting......Page 41
3. Merleau-Ponty and Kant’s Third Critique: The Beautiful and the Sublime......Page 52
Part II: Limits of Perception......Page 72
4. Skill and the Critique of Descartes in Gilbert Ryle and Maurice Merleau-Ponty......Page 74
5. Phantom Limbs and Phantom Worlds: Being Responsive to the Present......Page 90
Part III: Limits of Temporality and Phenomenology......Page 104
6. L’écart: Merleau-Ponty’s Separation from Husserl; Or, Absolute Time Constituting Consciousness......Page 106
7. Time at the Depth of the World......Page 131
Part IV: Limits of Faith and Sacramentality......Page 156
8. Merleau-Ponty and the Sacramentality of the Flesh......Page 158
9. Merleau-Ponty and Modernist Sacrificial Poetics: A Response to Richard Kearney......Page 178
10. ‘Faith is in things not seen’: Merleau-Ponty on Faith, Virtù, and the Perception of Style......Page 196
Bibliography of Works......Page 219
E......Page 222
L......Page 223
S......Page 224
W......Page 225
