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    The 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 ...
  •  61
    On the Origin(s) of Truth in Art: Merleau-Ponty, Klee, and Cézanne
    Research 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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    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
  •  44
    Painting, Nostalgia And Metaphysics
    Bulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 5 (1): 55-70. 1993.
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    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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    Forest and Philosophy
    Environmental 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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    Forest and Philosophy
    Environmental 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
  •  28
    The 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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    The Flesh of Images, Images of Flesh: Merleau-Ponty Forwarded
    Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 48 (4): 360-367. 2017.
    The Flesh of Images: Merleau-Ponty Between Painting and Cinema, by Mauro Carbone, is his third book in a body of work interpreting Merleau-Ponty’s ontology of Flesh: The Thinking of the Sensible: M...
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    Ontology and alterity in Merleau-Ponty (edited book)
    with Michael Bradley Smith
    Northwestern University Press. 1990.
    McAllestar (computer science, MIT) describes ONTIC, the interactive system for verifying represents a significant change of direction in the field of mechanical deduction, a key area in computer science and artificial intelligence. Fourteen interrelated essays comprise a multifaceted dialogue about intersubjectivity, reciprocity, and the nature of self and other, especially as these themes are developed in Merleau-Ponty's The Visible and the invisible. The question they explore is whether the re…Read more
  •  23
    From Aristotle’s Poetics to Newman’s Vir Heroicus Sublimis
    Epoché: 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
  •  21
    Child thought and contradictions: Understanding reyb and to
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 8 (3): 261-264. 1978.
  •  20
    Riassunto: Il bello e if sublime in Merleau-Ponty e Lyotard
    Chiasmi International 10 226-226. 2008.
  •  19
    Il problema delle origini (riassunto)
    Chiasmi International 2 259-259. 2000.
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    From Aristotle’s Poetics to Newman’s Vir Heroicus Sublimis: The Contest Over the Origins of Art
    Epoche: A Journal of 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
  •  16
    The Matrixed Ontology and Primordial Symbolism
    Research in Phenomenology 51 (1): 149-163. 2021.
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    Le problème des origines (résumé)
    Chiasmi International 2 258-258. 2000.
  •  15
    Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 22 (1): 95-97. 1990.
  •  13
    Assault on Genetic Epistemology, or If This Was Piaget
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 12 (4): 419-426. 1982.
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    Face of the World, Figure of the World
    Chiasmi International 19 465-474. 2017.
    Mazisgives us a new reading of Merleau-Ponty’s overall writings, a monumental work of vast scope with an original thematic reading of Merleau-Ponty’s thought. Its overall structure is revealed by its subtitle: elucidating the depth of silence, taking it as normative for ethics, reformulating perception as imaginal, concluding with a poetics of philosophy. The book offers us a Merleau-Ponteanethics of “felt solidarity” and “lateral unity” through developing a sharp opposition between the ethics o…Read more