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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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Author:   Kuisma Korhonen ,  Arto Haapala ,  Sara Heinämaa, Professor of Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Finland ,  Kristian Klockars
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.603kg
ISBN:  

9780739141779

ISBN 10:   0739141775
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   02 January 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

General Introduction: Rereading Chiasms Kuisma Korhonen PART ONE: Chiasmatic Art: Between Visibility and Ideality Introduction 1: Merleau-Ponty, The Girl with a Pearl Earring, and I Alan Paskow 2: The Chiasmatic Metropolis: Merleau-Ponty’s “Invisible” as a Source of Inspiration for Artistic Creativity Barbara Weber 3: Time as Chiasm: Listening for Ideality through Sibelius Jessica Wiskus 4: Chiasms in Art Roberto Terrosi PART TWO: Becoming Deleuze Introduction 5: Sartre, Deleuze and the Ontology of Make-Up Christine Battersby 6: Black Screen, White Noise: Beyond the Face in David Lynch’s Lost Highway Janne Vanhanen PART THREE: Ethical Encounters Introduction 7: Could the Caress Be the Necessary Third Term in the Chiasmatic Encounter? Chung-yi Chu 8: Chiasmatic Ethical Encounters Nicole Anderson 9: On the Ethical Significance of Encountering the Otherness of Literary Worlds Hanna Meretoja 10: How to Read a Work of Art: Disclosing the World Between Phenomenology and Deconstruction Tomi Kaarto PART FOUR: Does Politics Need Ethics? Does Ethics Need Politics? Introduction 11: Does Politics Need Ethics? Some Existential Meditations Sonia Kruks 12: Why Ethics Needs Politics: A Cosmopolitan Perspective Herta Nagl-Docekal 13: Chiasmatic Reasoning: Strategies of Self-Immunization in Jürgen Habermas Peter Bornedal Notes Bibliography Index of Names Index of Topics Contributors Editors Series Editor

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Kuisma Korhonen is professor of literature at the University of Oulu. Arto Haapala is professor of aesthetics at the University of Helsinki. Sara Heinämaa is senior lecturer and docent in theoretical philosophy at the University of Helsinki. Kristian Klockars is university lecturer in social and moral philosophy at the University of Helsinki. Pajari Räsänen is postdoctoral researcher in comparative literature at the University of Helsinki.

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