Merleau-Ponty's essays on aesthetics are some of the major accomplishments of his philosophical career, and rank even today among the most sophisticated reflections on art in all of twentieth-century philosophy. His essays on painting, Cezanne's Doubt (1945), Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence (1952), and Eye and Mind (1960), have inspired new approaches to epistemology, ontology, and the philosophy of history. Galen A. Johnson has gathered these essays for the first time into a single volume and augmented them with essays by distinguished scholars and artists, including M.C. Dillon, Mikel Dufrenne, and Rene Magritte. Together the essays demonstrate the continuing significance of Merleau-Ponty's ideas about art for contemporary philosophy on both sides of the Atlantic.
- ISBN10 0810110733
- ISBN13 9780810110731
- Publish Date 20 January 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 April 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Northwestern University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 436
- Language English