Phenomenology and the Arts develops the interplay between phenomenology as a historical movement and a descriptive method within Continental philosophy and the arts. Divided into five themes, the book explores first how the phenomenological method itself is a kind of artistic endeavor that mirrors what it approaches when it turns to describe paintings, dramas, literature, and music. From there, the book turns to an analysis and commentary on specific works of art within the visual arts, literature, music, and sculpture. Contributors analyze important historical figures in phenomenology-Kant, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty. But there is also a good deal of work on art itself-Warhol, Klee, jazz, and contemporary and renaissance artists and artworks. Edited by Peter R. Costello and Licia Carlson, this book will be of interest to students in philosophy, the arts, and the humanities in general, and scholars of phenomenology will notice incredibly rich, groundbreaking research that helps to resituate canonical figures in phenomenology with respect to what their works can be used to describe.
Introduction Peter R. Costello Overview Licia Carlson Phenomenological Method Chapter 1 Phenomenological Description and Artistic Expression John Russon Chapter 2 On the Possibility of the 'Purity' and Primacy of Art: A Phenomenological Analysis Based in Merleau-Ponty, Husserl, and Kant Galen A. Johnson Chapter 3 In the Interest of Art John Lysaker Chapter 4 Between Fabrication and Form: Heidegger's Phenomenology of the Work of Art Brian Rogers Visual Arts Chapter 5 Husserl, Expressionism, and the Eidetic Impulse in Brucke's Woodcut Christian Lotz Chapter 6 Blind Narcissism: Derrida, Klee, and Merleau-Ponty on the Line Scott Marratto Chapter 7 Perceptual Openness and Institutional Closure in the Contemporary Artworks of Luis Jacob and Phillip Buntin Kirsten Jacobson Literature Chapter 8 An Organism of Words: Merleau-Ponty on Embodiment, Language and Literature Susan Bredlau Chapter 9 Questioning the Material of Meaning: Merleau-Ponty, Adorno, and Beckett on the Dynamic Character of Expression Whitney Howell Chapter 10 "Thinking According to Others": Expression, Intimacy, and the Passage of Time in Merleau-Ponty and Woolf. Laura McMahon Music Chapter 11 Another Standard: Jazz Music and the Experience of Self-Transcendence Jeff Morrisey Chapter 12 Encounters with Musical Others Licia Carlson Place and Action Chapter 13 Of Earth and Sky: The Phenomenology of James Turrell's Roden Crater Project Matthew Goodwin Chapter 14 Transitional Objects, Playful Faculties, and Par-ergon-omics-Moving Together Towards Religious Art Peter Costello Chapter 15 Hegel and the Phenomenology of Art David Ciavatta
