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Merleau-Ponty’s aesthetic interworld: from primordial percipience to wild logos
The overall aim of this paper is to defend the value of the arts as uniquely instructive regarding philosophical questions. Specifically, I aim to achieve two things: firstly, to show that through the phenomenological challenge to dualist and monist ontologies the key debate in aesthetics regarding subjective response and objective judgment is reconfigured and resolved. I argue that Merleau-Ponty’s analyses complement and complete Kant’s project. Secondly, I propose that through Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological interrogations of the creative process the broader issue of the viability of his relational nondualist ontology is defended against accusations that it has not gone beyond dualism or that it has collapsed into a monism.
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Philosophy TodayVolume
62Pagination
847-867ISSN
0031-8256Department/School
School of HumanitiesPublisher
Philosophy Today Depaul UnivPlace of publication
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