The flesh of images : Merleau-Ponty between painting and cinema /

In The Flesh of Images, Mauro Carbone begins with the point that Merleau-Ponty's often misunderstood notion of "flesh" was another way to signify what he also called "Visibility." Considering vision as creative voyance, in the visionary sense of creating as a particular pres...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carbone, Mauro, 1956- (Author)
Other Authors: Nijhuis, Marta, 1983- (Translator)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
French
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2015]
Series:SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1071074
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : The flesh and the thinking of the visual today
  • Flesh : towards the history of a misunderstanding
  • It takes a long time to become wild : Gauguin according to Merleau-Ponty, Merleau-Ponty according to Gauguin
  • 'Making visible' : Merleau-Ponty and Paul Klee
  • The philosopher and the moviemaker : Merleau-Ponty and cinematic thinking
  • The light of the flesh : anti-platonistic instances and neoplatonic traces in the later Merleau-Ponty's thinking
  • The sensible ideas between life and philosophy.