Chiasmatic Encounters : Art, Ethics, Politics.

Chiasmatic Encounters -- CONTENTS -- Abbreviations -- General Introduction: Rereading Chiasms -- PART ONE: Chiasmatic Art: Between Visibility and Ideality -- Introduction -- 1 Merleau-Ponty, the Girl with a Pearl Earring, and I -- 2 The Chiasmatic Metropolis: Merleau-Ponty's "Invisible" as a Source of Inspiration for Artistic Creativity -- 3 Time as Chiasm: Listening for Ideality through Sibelius -- 4 Chiasms in Art -- PART TWO: Becoming Deleuze -- Introduction -- 5 Sartre, Deleuze and the Ontology of Makeup -- 6 Black Screen, White Noise: Beyond the Face in David Lynch's Lost Highway -- PART THREE: Ethical Encounters -- Introduction -- 7 Could the Caress Be the Necessary Third Term in the Chiasmatic Encounter? -- 8 Chiasmatic Ethical Encounters -- 9 On the Ethical Significance of Encountering the Otherness of Literary Worlds -- 10 How to Read a Work of Art: Disclosing the World Between Phenomenology and Deconstruction -- PART FOUR: Does Politics Need Ethics? Does Ethics Need Politics? -- Introduction -- 11 Does Politics Need Ethics? Some Existential Meditations -- 12 Why Ethics Needs Politics: A Cosmopolitan Perspective (With a Little Help from Kant) -- 13 Chiasmatic Reasoning: Strategies of Self-Immunization in Jürgen Habermas -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Topics -- Contributors -- Editors -- Series Editor.

In this book, fourteen international authors across various fields analyze the concept of chiasm and its role in human perception and experience, discussing the work of major philosophers like Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Derrida, and Deleuze, and adapting their ideas to cultural analysis.

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