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Merleau-Ponty between Philosophy and Symbolism

The Matrixed Ontology

By: Rajiv Kaushik

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Merleau-Ponty between Philosophy and Symbolism

The Matrixed Ontology

By: Rajiv Kaushik

Merleau-Ponty says in his Institution and Passivity lectures that he wants to "consider criticism itself as a symbolic form" instead of doing "a philosophy of symbolic form." This invites the possibility of an unconventional thought: If critical philosophy is a symbolic form, it cannot disclose its own limits and is, in fact, uncritical. Furthermore, the symbolic form can never itself be thought according to the terms of the criticism it produces but is always only constellated and matrixed within them—a symbolic form within both reflection and what it reflects on, within consciousness and the world. Thus, as Rajiv Kaushik argues, the symbolic form is another name for what Merleau-Ponty calls ontological divergence. Only now divergence introduces the question of a limit to both the subject and philosophy itself. This is nothing less than a psychoanalysis of philosophy. Kaushik's analyses of the matrices between space—imagination, light—dark, awake—asleep, and repression—expression reveal this symbolism in its form of divergence, its lack of origin and destination. Kaushik also argues that the phenomenology of symbolism must detour from the purely descriptive method. Drawing from Merleau-Ponty's recently published course materials, and attentive to his reliance on literature and literary language, Merleau-Ponty between Philosophy and Symbolism continues the living force of Merleau-Ponty's thought and develops his radical insight of the primacy of the symbolic form, even in an ontology that claims to be about the sensible and its elements.

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State University of New York Press

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1438476779

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Art, Language and Figure in Merleau-Ponty

Excursions in Hyper-Dialectic

By: Rajiv Kaushik

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Art, Language and Figure in Merleau-Ponty

Excursions in Hyper-Dialectic

By: Rajiv Kaushik

Art, Language and Figure in Merleau-Ponty: Excursions in Hyper-Dialectic considers Merleau-Ponty's later ontology of language in the light of his “figured philosophy,” which places the work of art at the centre of its investigation. Kaushik argues that, since for Merleau-Ponty the work of art actualizes a sensible ontology that would otherwise be invisible to the history of dialectics, it undermines the fundamental difference between being and linguistic structures. Art, Language and Figure in Merleau-Ponty takes up the radical task of the figured philosophy to render sensible and linguistic spaces prior to the thought of their separation. Kaushik situates Merleau-Ponty's criticisms of Saussure's linguistic system, as well as a more general repudiation of the act of inscribing in favour of an abstracted textual meaning, in this context. Following the artists most important to Merleau-Ponty's own writings on art, such as Paul Klee and his fascination with hieroglyphics, and extending these analyses to more recent 21st Century artists such as Cy Twombly, Kaushik takes an excursion into the places where art and language, image and text, drawing and writing, figure and discourse, are interlaced in Merleau-Ponty's last ontology. In view of these intersections, Kaushik ultimately argues, the work of art gives us the spaces where the possibilities of philosophy, both past and future, reside. As the first sustained treatment into the relationship between art and language, this is an important contribution to Meleau-Ponty's philosophy and scholars of aesthetics.

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1441142215

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9781441142214

Art and Institution

Aesthetics in the Late Works of Merleau-Ponty

By: Rajiv Kaushik

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Art and Institution

Aesthetics in the Late Works of Merleau-Ponty

By: Rajiv Kaushik

Art and Institution examines how for Merleau-Ponty the work of art opens up, without conceptualizing, the event of being. Rajiv Kaushik treats Merleau-Ponty's renderings of the artwork - specifically in his later writings during the period ranging from 1952-1961 - as a path into the being that precedes phenomenology. Replete with references to Merleau-Ponty's reflections on Matisse, Cézanne, Proust and others, and featuring Kaushik's own original reflections on various artworks, this book is guided by the notion that art does not iterate the findings of phenomenology so much as it allows phenomenology to finally discover what, as a matter of principle, it seeks: the very foundation of experience that is not itself available to thought. Kaushik is thus concerned with the ways in which the work of art restores the principle of institution, prior to the intentional structures of consciousness, so that phenomenology may settle questions concerning ontological difference, the origination of significance, and the relationship between interiority and exteriority.

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1441178740

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The Preface to Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception: A Re-Introduction

By: Rajiv Kaushik

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The Preface to Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception: A Re-Introduction

By: Rajiv Kaushik

This book offers a critical re-appraisal of what is perhaps Merleau-Ponty’s most widely read text, the Preface to his Phenomenology of Perception. Although open and enigmatic text, the Preface is still often used to introduce phenomenology in general and Merleau-Ponty’s work specifically to students, scholars in disciplines other than philosophy, and art practitioners. Taking advantage of the fact that many of his course notes have been posthumously published in the last few decades, this book situates the Preface to the Phenomenology of Perception in the context of Merleau-Ponty's later work and shows how it contains many of the threads on which Merleau-Ponty would later pull. In doing so, the book chapters elaborate key themes in the Preface: “Phenomenology and its Paradoxes,” “Phenomenology and its Method,” “Phenomenology and its Incompletion,” “Phenomenology and Non-Phenomenology." Readers will learn about the radicality of Merleau-Ponty’s early articulation of phenomenology, how much it already suggests the profound transformation of phenomenology usually associated with his more mature work.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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3031513282

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Choose Your Destiny : A Teenager'S Guide To Personality Development

By: Rajiv K. Mishra

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Choose Your Destiny : A Teenager'S Guide To Personality Development

By: Rajiv K. Mishra

Teenagers are grown-up individuals aspiring to have his or her own social identity. Its an age when they have tremendous measure of enthusiasm, plenty of energy, big dreams and unconventional ideas to win the whole world, but it is also true that they are mesmerized and confused too. On the whole they find plenty of glittering and promising options but very little guidance to achieve those goals. At a time when conventional wisdom is challenged very often and traditional values are no more relevant, they seek guidance and counseling from experienced professionals. This book is an effort in that direction. Lateral thinking, seven hat method of constructive dialogue, choosing the right path, creative thinking and daring to choose unconventional and less adventured career are some of the major subjects dwelled upon in the book. The author has tried to evolve steps to help young readers achieve better personality traits.

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8129112124

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Merleau-Ponty between Philosophy and Symbolism

Merleau-Ponty between Philosophy and Symbolism

Art, Language and Figure in Merleau-Ponty

Art, Language and Figure in Merleau-Ponty

Art and Institution

Art and Institution

The Preface to Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception: A Re-Introduction

The Preface to Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception: A Re-Introduction

Choose Your Destiny : A Teenager'S Guide To Personality Development

Choose Your Destiny : A Teenager'S Guide To Personality Development

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