Tracing expression in Merleau-Ponty [electronic resource] : aesthetics, philosophy of biology, and ontology / Veronique M. Foti.
Material type: TextSeries: Publication details: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (184 p.)ISBN:- 9780810166554
- 0810166550
- 194 23
- B2430.M3764 F68 2013
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1. Expression in Merleau-Ponty's aesthetics -- 1. Primordial perception and artistic expression: Merleau-Ponty and Cezanne -- 2. Expression, institution, and the field: a searching itinerary -- 3. Painterly and phenomenological interrogation in "Eye and mind" -- Part 2. Expression in animal life -- 4. The expressivity of animal behavior: embryogenesis and environing worlds -- 5. The expressivity of animal appearance and of directive and instinctual activities -- Part 3. Expression in Merleau-Ponty's ontology -- 6. The role of expression in Merleau-Ponty's dialogue with the rationalists -- 7. The irreducibility of expression: Merleau-Ponty's ontology and its wider implications -- Concluding thoughts.
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