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Body aesthetics believes that the body and spirit are one,and that spirit and consciousness arise in the body,so we should pay attention to the feeling of the body.F.Bacon’s paintings take the body as the main conten...
The essence of Husserfs intentionality does not lie in any object,but in the marginal horizon presupposed by intentional acts.This characteristic can be seen whether on the level of intensional act or that of noema(in...
This paper traces the genealogy of reversibility,chiasma,and chiasme in Merleau-Ponty's writings and offers a new characterisation of his later ontology in terms of a multi-layered chiasme-focused topology informed by...
It is now widely accepted that a mind that is saturated with bodily experience is necessary for the dual constitution of the self and the perceptual field,and that the deployment of perception is always associated wit...
There is a harmony between Andre Bazin's and Maurice Merleau-Ponty's approaches to cinema. They both see cinema as a new imperative language to express the being, capable of reflecting on our promiscuity with the wo...
Acknowledgements This work is supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China (No. 15CZX015), Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Foundation (No. 2014EZX001).
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This paper considers phenomenological descriptions of health in Gadamer, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Svenaeus. In these phenomenologies of health, health is understood as a tacit, background state that permits not o...
Constantin Stanislavski's Russian acting system, further developed by contemporary methodological practices, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of the body as object-subject are compared to illustrate how simple...
This paper explores embodied perception and its relation to aesthetic experience based on French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of painting. The discussion draws cases from both Western art, post-...