Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Series Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: “The Surface of a Depth”
	Part One: Conceptualizing Merleau-Ponty
	Part Two: Merleau-Ponty, Aesthetics, and the Lived Body
	Part Three: Glossary
	Notes
Part One: Conceptualizing Merleau-Ponty
	Chapter 1: Merleau-Ponty’s Cogito
		L’Être au monde and L’Être à soi
		Against Descartes
		Thought and language
		Self-consciousness
		Notes
	Chapter 2: On “The Philosopher and His Shadow”
		Notes
	Chapter 3: A Reading of “In Praise of Philosophy”: How Bergson Conceived Our Relation to the Truth
		Attunement
		Merleau-Ponty and modernism, the true, and the past
		The “modern” of modern philosophy to which modernism and Merleau-Ponty react
		Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy and expression
		Notes
	Chapter 4: “Hooks” and “Anchors”: Cézanne, the Lived Perspective, and Modernist Doubt
		Entering
		Modernist doubt
		Hooks and anchors
		Freedom: Incomplete germination
		Notes
	Chapter 5: The Artist’s Gestures of Fascination
		Introduction: The fascination of the artistin Merleau-Ponty and Woolf
		The painter’s fascination by the world in “Eye and Mind”
		Virginia Woolf’s artist in To the Lighthouse and Merleau-Ponty’s “Flesh of the World”
		Notes
	Chapter 6: “I Must Be Surprised, Disoriented”: Merleau-Ponty on Language as Disruptive Movement
		Embodied machinery and expressive language
		Divergencies in/of speech: Toward new meaning
		Language as disrupting movement: “At a certain stage I must be surprised, disoriented”
		Unfinished thoughts, incomplete speech
		Notes
	Chapter 7: Neither/Nor: Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology in “The Intertwining/The Chiasm”
		The visible and the invisible
		Beyond intuition and reflection
		“The Intertwining/The Chiasm”
		Criticisms of Merleau-Ponty’s ontology in “The Intertwining/The Chiasm”
		Notes
Part Two: Merleau-Ponty, Aesthetics, and the Lived Body
	Chapter 8: Phenomenology and the Imagination
		Modernism, phenomenology, and Merleau-Ponty
		Imagination, Cézanne, and embodied expression
		Horizonality, the indeterminacy of the perceptual field, and the “halo” of things
		Phenomenological abstraction: Modernism beyond Cézanne
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 9: The Systems of Equivalencies in Matisse and Klee: Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology of Modern Painting in “Eye and Mind”
		Systems of equivalences
		The first system of equivalence: Line and color
		The second system of equivalence: Between line and sign
		Some final remarks
		Notes
	Chapter 10: Merleau-Ponty on Simultaneity and Succession: The Turn to Music through Proust and Claudel
		Notes
	Chapter 11: Merleau-Ponty and Film: Documenting the Imagination
		Perception from painting to film
		Between perception and imagination
		Documenting the imagination
		Notes
	Chapter 12: Motricité, Physiology, and Modernity in Phenomenology of Perception
		Introduction
		The “problem” of motricité
		Automatism, physiology, and aesthetics
		Merleau-Ponty on “concrete” and “abstract” movements
		Conclusion
		Notes
	Chapter 13: D. H. Lawrence, Merleau-Ponty, and the Phenomenology of Illness
		Notes
	Chapter 14: “Mirrors of Reciprocal Flesh”: James Joyce and Maurice Merleau-Ponty
		Notes
	Chapter 15: Environmental Modernisms: Representing the Flesh of the World in Modernist Literature
		Modernist folds: Fiction in the flesh
		Singing the real world: Modernist poetry and the logos of the living world
		Notes
	Chapter 16: Uncertain Humanisms: Energies of Environment in Beckett, Bowen, and Merleau-Ponty
		Energies of environment: Phenomenology and late modernism
		Postwar Beckett: At home in the world
		Bowen: Object agency and vulnerable power
		The intertwining: Agency and the object-self
		Notes
	Chapter 17: Rhythmic Looking: Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry of Perception
		The rhythm of embodiment
		Watching closely
		Unconscious spots
		Notes
	Chapter 18: Poetico-Phenomenological Intertwinings: The Elaboration of a Practice of Thought in Valéry and Merleau-Ponty
		Notes
	Chapter 19: A Big Serious Portrait of My Time: Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Temporality and the Modernist Long Poem
		Introduction
		Containing history
		Serials and sequences
		Subjectivity as temporality
		Conclusion
		Notes
Part Three: Glossary
	Chapter 20: Body-subject
	Chapter 21: Flesh
		Note
	Chapter 22: Écart
	Chapter 23: Wild (Brute) Being
		Notes
	Chapter 24: Chiasm/Intertwining
		Notes
	Chapter 25: Body Schema
		Notes
	Chapter 26: Perceptual Faith
		Notes
	Chapter 27: Lived Experience
	Chapter 28: Interworld/l’intermonde
		Note
	Chapter 29: Ineinander
		Notes
	Chapter 30: Depth
	Chapter 31: Motor Intentionality
		Notes
	Chapter 32: Speaking Speech and Spoken Speech
Index