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30“Only Blood would be More Red”: Irigaray, Merleau-Ponty and the Ethics of Sexual DifferenceJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 32 (2): 147-159. 2001.Irigaray turns to Merleau-Ponty's intuitions about the perception of color to develop her own insights into the creative emergence of sexuate identity. As a quality of the flesh, color cannot be reduced to formal codes. The privileging of word and text inherent to Western culture suppresses the coming into being of the embodied subject in his or her own situated context. Color, tied as it is to a corporeal creativity could provide an important link since it facilitates reflection, and a re-enfle…Read more
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50Depth of Embodiment: Spatial and Temporal Bodies in Foucault and Merleau-PontyPhilosophy Today 43 (1): 73-85. 1999.Fielding discusses how Michel Foucault and Maurice Merleau-Ponty view spatial and temporal bodies. Foucault dismisses the understanding of an inside soul surrounded by a body.
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66Lacan and Merleau-Ponty on IntersubjectivityIn Dorothea Olkowski James Morley (ed.), Merleau-Ponty, Interiority and Exteriority, Psychic Life and the World, . 1999.This paper considers the relation between Merleau-Ponty and Lacan in terms of vision and intersubjectivity.
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22A Phenomenology of 'The Other World': On Irigaray's' To Paint the Invisible'Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning Merleau-Ponty's Thought 9 518-534. 2008.As we know, Merleau-Ponty was struggling with a dynamic shift in his thinking at the premature end of his life. In those last notes he raises the question of how to elaborate a phenomenology of “’the other world’, as the limit of a phenomenology of the imaginary and the ‘hidden’”—a phenomenology that would open onto an invisible life, community, other and culture. In her essay on “Eye and Mind”, “To Paint the Invisible”, Luce Irigaray argues that Merleau-Ponty was not yet ready to address this q…Read more
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14" The Sum of What She Is Saying": Bringing Essentials Back to the BodyIn Dorothea Olkowski (ed.), Resistance, flight, creation: feminist enactments of French philosophy, Cornell University Press. pp. 124. 2000.This chapter is an examination of the debate around essences in feminist philosophy and theorizing. Here, essences are rethought through Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology as carnal or embodied essences. As such, embodied essences are found at the joints, the hollows that are not inside us but that connect us, so that we are not isolated within cultural and historical zones. Embodied essences can be taken up in language as idealities
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21Questioning “Homeland” through Yael Bartana's Wild SeedsIn Christina Schües, Dorothea Olkowski & Helen Fielding (eds.), Time in Feminist Phenomenology, Indiana University Press. pp. 149. 2011.Helen Fielding, in examining Yael Bartana’s video art works, in particular, Wild Seeds (2005), argues that politics seem to privilege the temporal, and video art thus lends itself to this enactment. Drawing upon Hannah Arendt, she concludes that the in-between, while a space and not a territory, is more a spacing, a taking place between people “no matter where they happen to be” than a place as such. In Bartana’s works, the temporal aspect of video allows her to open up a time-space, or rather …Read more
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25Depth of Embodiment: Spatial and Temporal Bodies in Foucault and Merleau-PontyPhilosophy Today 43 (1): 73-85. 1999.Fielding discusses how Michel Foucault and Maurice Merleau-Ponty view spatial and temporal bodies. Foucault dismisses the understanding of an inside soul surrounded by a body.
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610Cultivating Perception: Phenomenological Encounters with ArtworksSigns 40 (2): 280-289. 2015.Phenomenally strong artworks have the potential to anchor us in reality and to cultivate our perception. For the most part, we barely notice the world around us, as we are too often elsewhere, texting, coordinating schedules, planning ahead, navigating what needs to be done. This is the level of our age that shapes the ways we encounter things and others. In such a world it is no wonder we no longer trust our senses. But as feminists have long argued, thinking grounded in embodied experience can…Read more
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514This Body of Art: The Singular Plural of the FeminineJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 36 (3): 277-292. 2005.I explore the possibility that the feminine, like art, can be thought in terms of Jean-Luc Nancy’s concept of the singular plural. In Les Muses, Nancy claims that art provides for the rethinking of a technë not ruled by instrumentality. Specifically, in rethinking aesthetics in terms of the debates laid out by Kant, Hegel and Heidegger, he resituates the ontological in terms of the specificity of the techniques of each particular artwork; each artwork establishes relations particular to its worl…Read more
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32Luce Irigaray, To Paint the Invisible, translation and interviewContinental Philosophy Review 37 (4): 389-405. 2004.In this essay, which is preceded by an interview with the translator, Luce Irigaray revisits her earlier critique of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s privileging of the visible, but also takes further her own thinking by drawing specifically on the issues raised within the context of painting and the creation of artworks. The focal point of her discussion is Merleau-Ponty’s essay on art, “Eye and Mind.”
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35Merleau-Ponty's Last Vision: A Proposal for the Completion of 'The Visible and the Invisible' (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 40 (1): 134-135. 2002.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 40.1 (2002) 134-135 [Access article in PDF] Book Review Merleau-Ponty's Last Vision: A Proposal for the Completion of 'The Visible and the Invisible Douglas Low. Merleau-Ponty's Last Vision: A Proposal for the Completion of 'The Visible and the Invisible.' Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2000. Pp. xv + 124. Cloth, $75.00. Paper, $19.95. Low sets himself an impossible task, that of com…Read more
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