Perceiving-Thinking-Writing: Merleau-Ponty and Literature
Donald Wesling’s leading argument, drawn from a crossover theory of the humanities, has philosophy and literature in a relation of constructive interference. What is common to both disciplines is the attempt to understand the necessary but often forgotten act of perceiving within the embodied mind.
Frontmatter
Note on the author
Preface
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Prodigious Search of Appearance
Chapter 2: Eye and Mind in Painting and Writing
Chapter 3: Ineinander : Energies of Interference
Chapter 4: Recovering the Subject in the Act of Speaking—and Writing
Chapter 5: Energies of Attention: Syntax in Depth
Chapter 6: Modes and Powers of Attention: Nine Terms from Merleau-Ponty
Chapter 7: Reading Poems and a Novel with the Nine Terms
Chapter 8: Ordinary Creativity
Bibliography
List of Abbreviations of Texts by Merleau-Ponty
Acknowledgments
Dedication
Frontmatter
Note on the author
Preface
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Prodigious Search of Appearance
Chapter 2: Eye and Mind in Painting and Writing
Chapter 3: Ineinander : Energies of Interference
Chapter 4: Recovering the Subject in the Act of Speaking—and Writing
Chapter 5: Energies of Attention: Syntax in Depth
Chapter 6: Modes and Powers of Attention: Nine Terms from Merleau-Ponty
Chapter 7: Reading Poems and a Novel with the Nine Terms
Chapter 8: Ordinary Creativity
Bibliography
List of Abbreviations of Texts by Merleau-Ponty
Acknowledgments
Dedication