Merleau-Ponty
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Space, Place, Architecture
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Edited by Patricia M. Locke and Rachel McCann
The first collection devoted to Merleau-Ponty’s contributions to our understanding of architecture and place.
Time, Memory, Institution
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Merleau-Ponty’s New Ontology of Self
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Edited by David Morris and Kym Maclaren
This collection is the first extended investigation of the relation between time and memory in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s thought as a whole as well as the first to explore in depth the significance of his concept of institution. It brings the French phenomenologist’s views on the self and ontology into contemporary focus.
The Madness of Vision
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On Baroque Aesthetics
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By Christine Buci-Glucksmann
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Translation by Dorothy Z. Baker
Christine Buci-Glucksmann’s The Madness of Vision is one of the most influential studies in phenomenological aesthetics of the baroque. Integrating the work of Merleau-Ponty with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Renaissance studies in optics, and twentieth-century mathematics, the author asserts the materiality of the body and world in her aesthetic theory. All vision is embodied vision, with the body and the emotions continually at play on the visual field.
Art in Context
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Understanding Aesthetic Value
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By David E. W. Fenner
The various lenses—ethical, political, sexual, religious, and so forth—through which we may view art are often instrumental in giving us an appreciation of the work. In Art in Context: Understanding Aesthetic Value, philosopher David Fenner presents a straightforward, accessible overview of the arguments about the importance of considering the relevant context in determining the true merit of a work of art.
Placing Aesthetics
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Reflections on the Philosophic Tradition
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By Robert E. Wood
Examining select high points in the speculative tradition from Plato and Aristotle through the Middle Ages and German tradition to Dewey and Heidegger, Placing Aesthetics seeks to locate the aesthetic concern within the larger framework of each thinker's philosophy. In Professor Robert Wood's study, aesthetics is not peripheral but rather central to the speculative tradition and to human existence as such. In Dewey's terms, aesthetics is “experience in its integrity.”
