Bøger af Galen A. Johnson

Merleau-Ponty has long been known as one of the most important philosophers of aesthetics, yet most discussions of his aesthetics focus on visual art. This book corrects that balance by turning to Merleau-Ponty's extensive engagement with literature.

Presents the concept of the beautiful through the framework of Merleau-Ponty's aesthetics. This book formulates that the ontology of Flesh as element and the ontology of the Beautiful as elemental are folded together, for Desire, Love, and Beauty are part of the fabric of the world's element, Flesh itself.

Merleau-Ponty's essays on aesthetics are some of the major accomplishments of his philosophical career, and rank among the most sophisticated reflections on art in twentieth-century philosophy. Together the essays demonstrate the continuing significance of Merleau-Ponty's ideas about art for contemporary philosophy.