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Chiasmatic Encounters
Art, Ethics, Politics
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2018
Summary
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.
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Copyright year
2018
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4177-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4179-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
239
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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CONTENTS No access
Abbreviations No access
General Introduction: Rereading Chiasms No access
Introduction No access
1 Merleau-Ponty, the Girl with a Pearl Earring, and I No access
2 The Chiasmatic Metropolis: Merleau-Ponty’s “Invisible” as a Source of Inspiration for Artistic Creativity No access
3 Time as Chiasm: Listening for Ideality through Sibelius No access
4 Chiasms in Art No access
Introduction No access
5 Sartre, Deleuze and the Ontology of Makeup No access
6 Black Screen, White Noise: Beyond the Face in David Lynch’s Lost Highway No access
Introduction No access
7 Could the Caress Be the Necessary Third Term in the Chiasmatic Encounter? No access
8 Chiasmatic Ethical Encounters No access
9 On the Ethical Significance of Encountering the Otherness of Literary Worlds No access
10 How to Read a Work of Art: Disclosing the World Between Phenomenology and Deconstruction No access
Introduction No access
11 Does Politics Need Ethics? Some Existential Meditations No access
12 Why Ethics Needs Politics: A Cosmopolitan Perspective (With a Little Help from Kant) No access
13 Chiasmatic Reasoning: Strategies of Self-Immunization in Jürgen Habermas No access
