Beschreibung:
This book develops the interplay between phenomenology as a historical movement and as a descriptive method within Continental philosophy and the arts.
Phenomenology and the Arts develops the interplay between phenomenology as a historical movement and a descriptive method within Continental philosophy and the arts. Divided into five themes, the book explores first how the phenomenological method itself is a kind of artistic endeavor that mirrors what it approaches when it turns to describe paintings, dramas, literature, and music. From there, the book turns to an analysis and commentary on specific works of art within the visual arts, literature, music, and sculpture. Contributors analyze important historical figures in phenomenology—Kant, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty. But there is also a good deal of work on art itself—Warhol, Klee, jazz, and contemporary and renaissance artists and artworks.
Edited by Peter R. Costello and Licia Carlson, this book will be of interest to students in philosophy, the arts, and the humanities in general, and scholars of phenomenology will notice incredibly rich, groundbreaking research that helps to resituate canonical figures in phenomenology with respect to what their works can be used to describe.
Introduction Peter R. Costello
Overview Licia Carlson
Phenomenological Method
Chapter 1Phenomenological Description and Artistic Expression
John Russon
Chapter 2On the Possibility of the ‘Purity’ and Primacy of Art: A Phenomenological Analysis Based in Merleau-Ponty, Husserl, and Kant
Galen A. Johnson
Chapter 3In the Interest of Art
John Lysaker
Chapter 4Between Fabrication and Form: Heidegger’s Phenomenology of the Work
of Art
Brian Rogers
Visual Arts
Chapter 5Husserl, Expressionism, and the Eidetic Impulse in Brücke’s Woodcut
Christian Lotz
Chapter 6Blind Narcissism: Derrida, Klee, and Merleau-Ponty on the Line
Scott Marratto
Chapter 7Perceptual Openness and Institutional Closure in the Contemporary
Artworks of Luis Jacob and Phillip Buntin
Kirsten Jacobson
Literature
Chapter 8An Organism of Words: Merleau-Ponty on Embodiment, Language and
Literature
Susan Bredlau
Chapter 9Questioning the Material of Meaning: Merleau-Ponty, Adorno, and
Beckett on the Dynamic Character of Expression
Whitney Howell
Chapter 10“Thinking According to Others”: Expression, Intimacy, and the Passage
of Time in Merleau-Ponty and Woolf.
Laura McMahon
Music
Chapter 11 Another Standard: Jazz Music and the Experience of Self-Transcendence
Jeff Morrisey
Chapter 12Encounters with Musical Others
Licia Carlson
Place and Action
Chapter 13Of Earth and Sky: The Phenomenology of James Turrell’s Roden Crater
Project
Matthew Goodwin
Chapter 14Transitional Objects, Playful Faculties, and Par-ergon-omics—Moving Together Towards Religious Art
Peter Costello
Chapter 15Hegel and the Phenomenology of Art
David Ciavatta