Chiasmatic Encounters (eBook, ePUB)

Art, Ethics, Politics
Redaktion: Korhonen, Kuisma; Räsänen, Pajari; Klockars, Kristian; Heinämaa, Sara; Haapala, Arto

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The concept of chiasm has played major role in continental philosophy, where it has referred to various phenomenological and hermeneutic structures of reversibility, intertwining, and encounter. In Chiasmatic Encounters: Art, Ethics, Politics, fourteen international contributors representing various fields of expertise analyze this central concept and its significance for contemporary cultural theory. The authors discuss the work of major philosophers like Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir, Habermas, Levinas, Derrida, and Deleuze, adapting their ideas of chiasmatic relations to cultural analysis. As the internal and external horizons of perception and experience are intertwined and reversed, various cultural texts, like a Vermeer painting, a symphony of Sibelius, a David Lynch movie, or a young girl walking in her summer dress, are seen from new and unexpected angles. The book also addresses the chiasmatic crossing between ethics and politics-- between unconditional ethical responsibility and always conditional political choices. Representing the cutting edge of contemporary cultural theory and interdisciplinary thinking, Chiasmatic Encounters is essential reading for anyone working in continental philosophy, aesthetics, or political theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739141793
• Artikelnr.: 74627279

Autorenporträt

Edited by Kuisma Korhonen; Arto Haapala; Sara Heinämaa; Kristian Klockars and Pajari Räsänen - Contributions by Kuisma Korhonen; Alan Paskow; Barbara Weber; Jessica Wiskus; Roberto Terrosi; Christine Battersby; Janne Vanhanen; Chung-yi Chu; Nicole Anderso

Inhaltsangabe

General Introduction: Rereading Chiasms Kuisma Korhonen PART ONE:
Chiasmatic Art: Between Visibility and Ideality Introduction 1:
Merleau-Ponty, The Girl with a Pearl Earring, and I Alan Paskow 2: The
Chiasmatic Metropolis: Merleau-Ponty's "Invisible" as a Source of
Inspiration for Artistic Creativity Barbara Weber 3: Time as Chiasm:
Listening for Ideality through Sibelius Jessica Wiskus 4: Chiasms in Art
Roberto Terrosi PART TWO: Becoming Deleuze Introduction 5: Sartre, Deleuze
and the Ontology of Make-Up Christine Battersby 6: Black Screen, White
Noise: Beyond the Face in David Lynch's Lost Highway Janne Vanhanen PART
THREE: Ethical Encounters Introduction 7: Could the Caress Be the Necessary
Third Term in the Chiasmatic Encounter? Chung-yi Chu 8: Chiasmatic Ethical
Encounters Nicole Anderson 9: On the Ethical Significance of Encountering
the Otherness of Literary Worlds Hanna Meretoja 10: How to Read a Work of
Art: Disclosing the World Between Phenomenology and Deconstruction Tomi
Kaarto PART FOUR: Does Politics Need Ethics? Does Ethics Need Politics?
Introduction 11: Does Politics Need Ethics? Some Existential Meditations
Sonia Kruks 12: Why Ethics Needs Politics: A Cosmopolitan Perspective Herta
Nagl-Docekal 13: Chiasmatic Reasoning: Strategies of Self-Immunization in
Jürgen Habermas Peter Bornedal Notes Bibliography Index of Names Index of
Topics Contributors Editors Series Editor