Van Gogh among the Philosophers

David P. Nichols is associate professor of philosophy at Saginaw Valley State University.

After the Cypress: An Introduction
David P. Nichols

Jaspers’ Pathographic Analysis of Van Gogh: A Critique and Appreciation
Gregory J. Walters

Painting from the Outside: Foucault and Van Gogh
Joseph J. Tanke

The Problem of Agency in Heidegger's Interpretation of Van Gogh
Ingvild Torsen

Sensuality, Materiality, Painting: What is Wrong with Jaspers' and Heidegger's Van Gogh Interpretations?
Christian Lotz

Mal Pointure or If the Shoe Doesn't Fit…
K. Malcolm Richards

Van Gogh, Heidegger, and the Attuned Life
Stephen A. Erickson

Immanent Transcendence in the Work of Art: Jaspers and Heidegger on Van Gogh
Rebecca Longtin Hansen

Merleau-Ponty's Thinking of Perception and the Art of Van Gogh: On “Going Further” and “Going Beyond”
Galen A. Johnson

Van Gogh in Tragic Portraiture: Jaspers, Bataille, Heidegger
David P. Nichols

Prometheus Dismembered: Bataille on Van Gogh or The Window in the Bataille Restaurant
James Luchte

Van Gogh’s Dark Illuminations: The End of Art or The Art of the End
Alina N. Feld

Van Gogh and the Absence of the Work: Remnants of a Hermeneutic Itinerary
Stephen H. Watson

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