Phenomenology and the Arts

A. Licia Carlson is associate professor of philosophy at Providence College.Peter R. Costello is professor of philosophy at Providence College.

This book develops the interplay between phenomenology as a historical movement and as a descriptive method within Continental philosophy and the arts.

Introduction Peter R. CostelloOverview Licia CarlsonPhenomenological MethodChapter 1 Phenomenological Description and Artistic ExpressionJohn RussonChapter 2 On the Possibility of the `Purity¿ and Primacy of Art: A Phenomenological Analysis Based in Merleau-Ponty, Husserl, and KantGalen A. JohnsonChapter 3 In the Interest of ArtJohn LysakerChapter 4 Between Fabrication and Form: Heidegger¿s Phenomenology of the Workof ArtBrian RogersVisual ArtsChapter 5 Husserl, Expressionism, and the Eidetic Impulse in Brücke¿s WoodcutChristian LotzChapter 6 Blind Narcissism: Derrida, Klee, and Merleau-Ponty on the LineScott MarrattoChapter 7 Perceptual Openness and Institutional Closure in the ContemporaryArtworks of Luis Jacob and Phillip BuntinKirsten JacobsonLiteratureChapter 8 An Organism of Words: Merleau-Ponty on Embodiment, Language andLiteratureSusan BredlauChapter 9 Questioning the Material of Meaning: Merleau-Ponty, Adorno, andBeckett on the Dynamic Character of ExpressionWhitney HowellChapter 10 ¿Thinking According to Others¿: Expression, Intimacy, and the Passageof Time in Merleau-Ponty and Woolf.Laura McMahonMusicChapter 11 Another Standard: Jazz Music and the Experience of Self-TranscendenceJeff MorriseyChapter 12 Encounters with Musical OthersLicia CarlsonPlace and ActionChapter 13 Of Earth and Sky: The Phenomenology of James Turrell¿s Roden CraterProjectMatthew GoodwinChapter 14 Transitional Objects, Playful Faculties, and Par-ergon-omics¿Moving Together Towards Religious ArtPeter CostelloChapter 15 Hegel and the Phenomenology of ArtDavid Ciavatta