TY - BOOK AU - Mazis,Glen A. TI - Merleau-Ponty and the face of the world: silence, ethics, imagination, and poetic ontology SN - 9781438462325 AV - B2430.M3764 U1 - 194 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Albany PB - State University of New York Press KW - Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, KW - PHILOSOPHY KW - History & Surveys KW - Modern KW - bisacsh KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface: From Silence to Depth; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations for Works by Merleau-Ponty; Introduction: Merleau-Ponty's Warning of an "Endless Nightmare"; Part I: Entering the World of Expressive Silence; I. Hearkening to Silence: Merleau-Ponty beyond Postmodernism; II. Language as a Power for Error and Violence; III. A Different Silence and the World's Gesture; IV. Silence, the Depth of the Flesh and Its Movement; V. Silence Sings as We Do When Happy: Charged Evanescence; VI. Language Can Live Only from its Roots in Silence; VII. Indirect Expression as Silence Entering Language; VIII. Silence, Duration, and Vertical TimeIX. Silence Arrives at the First Day; Part II: Faces of the World-Desiring Sensibility and Ethics; I. Physiognomic Sense and Faces within the World; II. The Face of Desire; III. Merleau-Ponty's Face of this World and Levinas's Face of the Other World; IV. Perceptual Otherness, Not Absolute Otherness; V. An Ethics of Flesh: Saint-Exupéry, Merleau-Ponty, and Felt Solidarity; VI. Lateral Unity versus Vertical Identity: Kinship versus Substitution; VII. The Ethical Alterity of Depth of this World Rather than Absolute Height; Part III: The Imaginal, Oneiric Materiality, and Poetic LanguageI. Early Implied Physiognomic Imagination; II. Sketches of the Imaginal in Myth, Film, and Children; III. Imaginal of Institution, Sensible Ideas, and Proustian Sensitivity; IV. Later Writings: Toward an Imaginal Ontology; V. Bachelard's Material Imagination and Flesh of the World; VI. Toward a Poetic Ontology; VII. A Poetics of Philosophy; Conclusion: Sense and Solidarity at the Depths of World; Notes; Works Cited; Index UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1357129 ER -