Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism

Ariane Mildenberg is Senior Lecturer in Modernism at the University of Kent, UK. She is the author of Modernism and Phenomenology: Literature, Philosophy, Art (2017) and co-editor of Phenomenology, Modernism and Beyond (2010).

Notes on Contributors
Series Preface
Paul Ardoin, S. E. Gontarski, and Laci Mattison
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: "The Surface of a Depth"
Ariane Mildenberg (University of Kent, UK)

Part I. Conceptualizing Merleau-Ponty
1. Merleau-Ponty’s Cogito
Thomas Baldwin (University of York, UK)
2. On “The Philosopher and His Shadow”
Kevin Hart (University of Virginia, USA)
3. A Reading of "In Praise of Philosophy": How Bergson Conceived Our Relation to the Truth
Michael R. Kelly (University of San Diego, USA)
4. “Hooks” and “Anchors”: Cézanne, the Lived Perspective and Modernist Doubt
Ariane Mildenberg (University of Kent, UK)
5. The Artist's Gestures of Fascination in “Eye and Mind”
Glen Mazis (Penn State Harrisburg, USA)
6. “I Must be Surprised, Disoriented”: Merleau-Ponty on Language as Disruptive Movement
Florentien Verhage (Washington and Lee University, USA)
7. Neither/Nor: Merleau-Ponty's Ontology in “The Intertwining/The Chiasm”
Jack Reynolds (La Trobe University, Australia) & Jon Roffe (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Part II. Merleau-Ponty, Aesthetics, and the Lived Body
8. Phenomenology and the Imagination of Modernism
Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei (Fordham University, USA)
9. The “Systems of Equivalences” in Matisse and Klee: Merleau-Ponty's Ontology of Modern Painting in “Eye and Mind”
Rajiv Kaushik (Brock University, Canada)
10. Merleau-Ponty on Simultaneity and Succession: The Turn to Music through Proust and Claudel
Jessica Wiskus (Duquesne University, USA)
11. Merleau-Ponty and Film: Documenting the Imagination
Sarah Cooper (King’s College, University of London, UK)
12. Motricité, Physiology, and Modernity in Phenomenology of Perception
Mark Paterson (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
13. D. H. Lawrence, Merleau-Ponty and the Phenomenology of Illness
Ulrika Maude (University of Bristol, UK)
14. “Mirrors of Reciprocal Flesh”: James Joyce and Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Cleo Hanaway-Oakley (Oxford University, UK)
15. Environmental Modernisms: Representing the Flesh of the World in Modernist Literature
Kelly Sultzbach (University of Wisconsin, USA)
16. Uncertain Humanisms: Energies of Environment in Bowen, Beckett and Merleau-Ponty
Amanda Dennis (Columbia University, USA)
17. Rhythmic Looking: Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry of Perception
Jason M. Baskin (University of Exeter, UK)
18. Poetico-Phenomenological Intertwinings: The Elaboration of a Practice of Thought in Valéry and Merleau-Ponty
Carole Bourne-Taylor (Brasenose College, Oxford, UK)
19. A Big Serious Portrait of My Time: Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Temporality and the Modernist Long Poem
Matthew Carbery (University of Kent, UK)

Part III. Glossary
20. Body-subject
Ann V. Murphy (University of New Mexico, USA)
21. Flesh
Ann V. Murphy (University of New Mexico, USA)
22. Écart
Rajiv Kaushik (Brock University, Canada)
23. Wild (Brute) Being
David Warren Grunner (Fordham University, USA)
24. Chiasm/Intertwining
David Warren Grunner (Fordham University, USA)
25. Body Schema
Jonathan Hale (University of Nottingham, UK)
26. Perceptual Faith
James Bodington (University of New Mexico, USA)
27. Lived Experience
Florentien Verhage (Washington and Lee University, USA)
28. Inter-world/l’intermonde
Patricia Locke (St. John's College, USA)
29. Ineinander
Jessica Wiskus (Duquesne University, USA)
30. Depth
Glen Mazis (Penn State Harrisburg, USA)
31. Motor Intentionality
Mark Paterson (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
32. Speaking Speech and Spoken Speech
Hayden Kee (Fordham University, USA)

Index