Publisher's Synopsis
The essays in Between Aesthetics and Psychoanalysis bring to light how Merleau-Ponty's thought is at once theoretical and practical, aesthetical (in both senses of art and sense-experience) and intellectual. Fruitful comparisons are also made between Merleau-Ponty and other thinkers: Fink, Gurwitsch, Deleuze, Derrida, Marx, Lacan, and Melanie Klein. Being spread over many topics and figures therefore, this volume of Chiasmi International presents the full spectrum of current research concerning the thought of Merleau-Ponty. As well, volume VI of Chiasmi International completes the second full cycle of the rotating editorship among Renaud Barbaras, Mauro Carbone, and Leonard Lawlor. It therefore gives us an occasion to be a bit retrospective. Perhaps, on the basis of these six volumes, it is possible to claim that Merleau-Ponty is the resource, the "point of diffraction," we might say, for all contemporary philosophy in the Continental tradition. TEXTS BY: Alia Al-Saji, Lucia Angelino, Fabrice Colonna, Carmine Di Martino, Leonardo V. Distaso, Annabelle Dufourcq, Guy Felix Duportail, Antonino Firenze, Linda Fisher, Lorenzo Gasparrini, Erinn Gilson, Larry Hass, Romano Khan, Leonard Lawlor, Serge Meitinger, Stephen Noble, Maria-Luz Pintos, Hugh J. Silverman.
