Chiasmatic Encounters (eBook)

Art, Ethics, Politics

Arto Haapala, Sara Heinamaa, Kristian Klockars, Kuisma Korhonen, Pajari Rasanen (Herausgeber)

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2018
264 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-4179-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In this book, fourteen international authors across various fields analyze the concept of chiasm and its role in human perception and experience, discussing the work of major philosophers like Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Derrida, and Deleuze, and adapting their ideas to cultural analysis.

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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.

Autor

Kuisma Korhonen is professor of literature at the University of Oulu. Arto Haapala is professor of aesthetics at the University of Helsinki.Sara Heinämaa is senior lecturer and docent in theoretical philosophy at the University of Helsinki. Kristian Klockars is university lecturer in social and moral philosophy at the University of Helsinki. Pajari Räsänen is postdoctoral researcher in comparative literature at the University of Helsinki.

Inhalt

General Introduction: Rereading ChiasmsKuisma KorhonenPART ONE: Chiasmatic Art: Between Visibility and IdealityIntroduction1: Merleau-Ponty, The Girl with a Pearl Earring, and IAlan Paskow2: The Chiasmatic Metropolis: Merleau-Ponty’s “Invisible” as a Source of Inspiration for Artistic CreativityBarbara Weber3: Time as Chiasm: Listening for Ideality through SibeliusJessica Wiskus4: Chiasms in ArtRoberto TerrosiPART TWO: Becoming DeleuzeIntroduction5: Sartre, Deleuze and the Ontology of Make-UpChristine Battersby6: Black Screen, White Noise: Beyond the Face in David Lynch’s Lost HighwayJanne VanhanenPART THREE: Ethical EncountersIntroduction7: Could the Caress Be the Necessary Third Term in the Chiasmatic Encounter?Chung-yi Chu8: Chiasmatic Ethical EncountersNicole Anderson9: On the Ethical Significance of Encountering the Otherness of Literary WorldsHanna Meretoja10: How to Read a Work of Art: Disclosing the World Between Phenomenology and DeconstructionTomi KaartoPART FOUR: Does Politics Need Ethics? Does Ethics Need Politics?Introduction11: Does Politics Need Ethics? Some Existential MeditationsSonia Kruks12: Why Ethics Needs Politics: A Cosmopolitan PerspectiveHerta Nagl-Docekal13: Chiasmatic Reasoning: Strategies of Self-Immunization in Jürgen HabermasPeter BornedalNotesBibliographyIndex of NamesIndex of TopicsContributorsEditorsSeries Editor

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.1.2018
• Reihe/Serie: TEXTURES: Philosophy / Literature / Culture
• Co-Autor: Nicole Anderson, Alan Paskow, Roberto Terrosi, Janne Vanhanen, Barbara Weber, Jessica Wiskus, Christine Battersby, Peter Bornedal, Chung-yi Chu, Tomi Kaarto, Kuisma Korhonen, Sonia Kruks, Hanna Meretoja, Herta Nagl-Docekal
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Schlagworte: Aesthetics • Beauvoir • Continental Philosophy • Cultural Studies • Cultural Theory • Deleuze • Derrida • Habermas • Levinas • Literary Studies • Merleau-Ponty • Phenomenology • political theory
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-4179-1 / 0739141791
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-4179-3 / 9780739141793