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296The 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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104The Beautiful and the Sublime in Merleau-Ponty and LyotardChiasmi International 10 207-226. 2008.
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87Merleau-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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77Merleau-ponty's early aesthetics of historical being: The case of cezanneResearch in Phenomenology 17 (1): 211-225. 1987.
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61On 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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53The 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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44Painting, Nostalgia And MetaphysicsBulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 5 (1): 55-70. 1993.none.
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42Intentionality, 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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40Hartshorne'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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37Forest 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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32Forest 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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31Résumé: Le beau et Ie sublime chez Merleau-Ponty et LyotardChiasmi International 10 226-226. 2008.
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29Desire 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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28The 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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27The Flesh of Images, Images of Flesh: Merleau-Ponty ForwardedJournal 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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27Ontology and alterity in Merleau-Ponty (edited book)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
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23From 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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21Child thought and contradictions: Understanding reyb and toPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 8 (3): 261-264. 1978.
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20Riassunto: Il bello e if sublime in Merleau-Ponty e LyotardChiasmi International 10 226-226. 2008.
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19From Aristotle’s Poetics to Newman’s Vir Heroicus Sublimis: The Contest Over the Origins of ArtEpoche: 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
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16Hartshorne's Arguments against Empirical Evidence for Necessary Existence: An EvaluationReligious Studies 13 (2). 1977.
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13Assault on Genetic Epistemology, or If This Was PiagetPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 12 (4): 419-426. 1982.
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12Face of the World, Figure of the WorldChiasmi 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
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11Husserl and Piaget: Genesis, Sediments, and StagesNew Ideas in Psychology 16 (1): 331-337. 1998.
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