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Inside and Outside: Ontological ConsiderationsIn Olkowski And Morely (ed.), Merleau-Ponty: Interiority and Exteriority, Psychic Life and the World, Suny Press. 1999.
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35The Retrieval of the Beautiful: Thinking Through Merleau-Ponty's AestheticsNorthwestern University Press. 2009.In this elegant new study Galen Johnson retrieves the concept of the beautiful through the framework of Merleau-Ponty’s aesthetics. Although Merleau-Ponty seldom spoke directly of beauty, his philosophy is essentially about the beautiful. In Johnson’s formulation, the ontology of Flesh as element and the ontology of the Beautiful as elemental are folded together, for Desire, Love, and Beauty are part of the fabric of the world’s element, Flesh itself, the term at which Merleau-Ponty arrived to r…Read more
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34The colors of fire: Depth and desire in Merleau-ponty's ``eye and mind''Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 25 (1Merleau-Ponty): 53-63. 1994.
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23Child thought and contradictions: Understanding reyb and toPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 8 (3): 261-264. 1978.
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70On the Origin(s) of Truth in Art: Merleau-Ponty, Klee, and CézanneResearch in Phenomenology 43 (3): 475-515. 2013.Beginning from Klee’s statement on truth in self-portraiture that his faces are truer than real ones and Cézanne’s promise to tell us the truth in painting, we consider the origins of truth in art for the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty. We discover that truth in perception, in life, and incarnate existence, as in art, originates from bodily movement. Similar to Heidegger’s argument in “The Origin of the Work of Art,” a truth happens between the work and painter, between the work and viewer, and is …Read more
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12Husserl and Piaget: Genesis, Sediments, and StagesNew Ideas in Psychology 16 (1): 331-337. 1998.
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205The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting (edited book)Northwestern University Press. 1993.PART INTRODUCTIONS TO MERLEAU- PONTY'S PHI LOSOPH Y OF PAI NTI NG Galen A. Johnson ...
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47Forest and PhilosophyEnvironmental Philosophy 4 (1-2): 59-75. 2007.This paper initiates a phenomenological study of the aesthetics of forest and wood in three main phases. First, we consider the modalities of wood’s sensuousness and argue against the formalist tradition that restricts aesthetic appreciation to visual forms. Second, we examine the structural, eidetic features of hand-made wooden objects in the “second life” of trees. Third, we engage in reflections on the communities gathered by the first and second lives of trees. These themes outline an aesthe…Read more
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21Riassunto: Il bello e if sublime in Merleau-Ponty e LyotardChiasmi International 10 226-226. 2008.
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49Intentionality, institutions, and the interpretation of historical action in the dialectic of actionPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 15 (4): 449-459. 1985.
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11The Voice of Merleau-Ponty: The Philosopher and the PoetJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 39 (1): 88-102. 2008.
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27Hartshorne's Arguments against Empirical Evidence for Necessary Existence: An EvaluationReligious Studies 13 (2). 1977.
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31Desire and Invisibility in “Eye and Mind:” Some Remarks on Merleau-Ponty’s SpiritualityIn Patrick Burke and Jan van Der Veken (ed.), Merleau-Ponty in Contemporary Perspective, . pp. 85--96. 1993.
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Présence de l’oeuvre, un passé qui ne passe pas: Merleau-Ponty and Paul KleeAlter: revue de phénoménologie 16 227-242. 2008.
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Metamorphosis and Music: Klee and Merleau-PontyIn Paul Klee (ed.), Paul Klee: Philosophical Vision, From Nature to Art, Mcmullen Museum of Art, Boston College. 2012.
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5Historicity, Narratives, and the Understanding of Human LifeJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 15 (3): 37-54. 1984.
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31From Aristotle’s Poetics to Newman’s Vir Heroicus SublimisEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 10 (1): 65-79. 2005.This article explores the question of the cognitivity of the arts. It begins from Kundera’s argument that the novel, originating from Cervantes, offers a response toGalileo and solution to Husserl’s diagnosis of a “crisis of European sciences.” Expanding to the full range of literary arts, we next undertake a re-reading of Aristotle’s Poetics to assess Aristotle’s views of the origins of tragedy and press for a cognitive interpretation of the meaning of catharsis and emotions. Finally, turning t…Read more
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110The Beautiful and the Sublime in Merleau-Ponty and LyotardChiasmi International 10 207-226. 2008.
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22A philosophical inquiry into the moral sense of nature and artifactsMan and World 19 (1): 103-118. 1986.These inquiries do not diminish or overshadow the power and importance of the gift that isThe Embers and the Stars. It must be counted among the richest, most eloquent, original, and challenging new works of philosophy to appear in recent years, standing alongisde the best of the authors Kohák admires most, like Marcel and Ricoeur. It must be read. Moreover, we must press Kohák for both the philosophical theology and philosophical inquiry into the moral sense of artifacts toward which this work …Read more
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89Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Expressionism: Lawrence Hass, Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy Merleau-Ponty's PhilosophyResearch in Phenomenology 39 (3): 455-465. 2009.
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43Hartshorne's Arguments Against Empirical Evidence for Necessary Existence: An Evaluation: GALEN A. JOHNSONReligious Studies 13 (2): 175-187. 1977.Is experiential evidence irrelevant to acceptance or rejection of belief in the existence of a Divine Being? Charles Hartshorne answers that it is indeed irrelevant, and this answer has an initial and, for me, continuing surprising ring to it. Specifically, Hartshorne makes two distinguishable claims: the traditional allegedly a posteriori arguments, the teleological and cosmological, are in fact incompatible with empiricist methodology and are disguised ontological arguments; the conception of …Read more
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2Thinking in Color: Paul Klee and Merleau-PontyIn Véronique Marion Fóti (ed.), Merleau-Ponty: difference, materiality, painting, Humanities Press. 1996.
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8Earth and Sky, History and Philosophy: Island Images Inspired by Husserl and Merleau-PontyPeter Lang Publishing. 1989.This book is a philosophical inquiry into historical meaning and narrative understanding. Interpreting selected writings of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, and stories of Kafka, Rilke, Sartre, and Camus, the author defends the narrative coherence of life and the irreducibility of narrative understanding and truth. The island imagery uncovered in these authors provides the parameters for a contemporary philosophy of history properly mingling earth and sky as natality and mortality, remembering and for…Read more
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