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Author Carbone, Mauro, 1956- author

Title The flesh of images : Merleau-Ponty between painting and cinema / Mauro Carbone ; Translated by Marta Nijhuis
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2015]
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Series SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy
SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy
Contents Introduction : The flesh and the thinking of the visual today -- Flesh : towards the history of a misunderstanding -- It takes a long time to become wild : Gauguin according to Merleau-Ponty, Merleau-Ponty according to Gauguin -- 'Making visible' : Merleau-Ponty and Paul Klee -- The philosopher and the moviemaker : Merleau-Ponty and cinematic thinking -- The light of the flesh : anti-platonistic instances and neoplatonic traces in the later Merleau-Ponty's thinking -- The sensible ideas between life and philosophy
Summary In The Flesh of Images, Mauro Carbone begins with the point that Merleau-Ponty's often misunderstood notion of "flesh" was another way to signify what he also called "Visibility." Considering vision as creative voyance, in the visionary sense of creating as a particular presence something which, as such, had not been present before, Carbone proposes original connections between Merleau-Ponty and Paul Gauguin, and articulates his own further development of the "new idea of light" that the French philosopher was beginning to elaborate at the time of his sudden death. Carbone connects these ideas to Merleau-Ponty's continuous interest in cinema-an interest that has been traditionally neglected or circumscribed. Focusing on Merleau-Ponty's later writings, including unpublished course notes and documents not yet available in English, Carbone demonstrates both that Merleau-Ponty's interest in film was sustained and philosophically crucial, and also that his thinking provides an important resource for illuminating our contemporary relationship to images, with profound implications for the future of philosophy and aesthetics. Building on his earlier work on Marcel Proust and considering ongoing developments in optical and media technologies, Carbone adds his own philosophical insight into understanding the visual today
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961 -- Knowledge -- Painting
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961 -- Knowledge -- Motion pictures
SUBJECT Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961 fast
Subject Painting.
Motion pictures.
Paintings
Motion Pictures
PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
Motion pictures
Painting
Philosophy.
Philosophy & Religion.
Genre/Form Motion pictures
Form Electronic book
Author Nijhuis, Marta, 1983- translator
Translation of: Carbone, Mauro, 1956- Chair des images
ISBN 9781438458809
1438458800
Other Titles Chair des images. English