Phenomenology and the Arts

A. Licia Carlson, Peter Costello

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2016
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781498506519
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Aesthetics in Philosophy

Phenomenology and the Arts develops the interplay between phenomenology as a historical movement and a descriptive method within Continental philosophy and the arts. Divided into five themes, the book explores first how the phenomenological method itself is a kind of artistic endeavor that mirrors what it approaches when it turns to describe paintings, dramas, literature, and music. From there, the book turns to an analysis and commentary on specific works of art within the visual arts, literature, music, and sculpture. Contributors analyze important historical figures in phenomenology—Kant, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty. But there is also a good deal of work on art itself—Warhol, Klee, jazz, and contemporary and renaissance artists and artworks.
Edited by Peter R. Costello and Licia Carlson, this book will be of interest to students in philosophy, the arts, and the humanities in general, and scholars of phenomenology will notice incredibly rich, groundbreaking research that helps to resituate canonical figures in phenomenology with respect to what their works can be used to describe.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Introduction
• An Overview
• Phenomenological Method
• Phenomenological Description and Artistic Expression
• On the Possibility of the “Purity” and Primacy of Art
• In the Interest of Art
• Between Fabrication and Form
• Visual Arts
• Husserl, Expressionism, and the Eidetic Impulse in Brücke’s Woodcut
• Blind Narcissism
• Perceptual Openness and Institutional Closure in the Contemporary Artworks of Luis Jacob and Phillip Buntin
• Literature
• An Organism of Words
• Questioning the Material of Meaning
• “Thinking According to Others”
• Music
• Another Standard
• Encounters with Musical Others
• Place and Action
• Of Earth and Sky
• Transitional Objects, Playful Faculties, and Par-ergon-omics
• Hegel and the Phenomenology of Art
• Index
• About the Contributors