The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting (Northwester University Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

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Merleau-Pontys essays on aesthetics are some of the major accomplishments of his philosophical career and rank even today among the most sophisticated reflections on art in all of twentieth-century philosophy. His essays on painting "Cezannes Doubt" (1945) "Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence" (1952) and "Eye and Mind" (1960) have inspired new approaches to epistemology ontology and the philosophy of history. Galen A. Johnson has gathered these essays for the first time into a single volume and augmented them with essays by distinguished scholars and artists including M.C. Dillon Mikel Dufrenne and Ren Magritte. Together the essays demonstrate the continuing significance of Merleau-Pontys ideas about art for contemporary philosophy on both sides of the Atlantic.