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Chiasmatic Encounters

Art, Ethics, Politics

Edited by Kuisma Korhonen; Arto Haapala; Sara Heinämaa; Kristian Klockars and Pajari Räsänen - Contributions by Kuisma Korhonen; Alan Paskow; Barbara Weber; Jessica Wiskus; Roberto Terrosi; Christine Battersby; Janne Vanhanen; Chung-yi Chu; Nicole Anderson; Hanna Meretoja; Tomi Kaarto; Sonia Kruks; Herta Nagl-Docekal and Peter Bornedal

The concept of chiasm has played major role in continental philosophy, where it has referred to various phenomenological and hermeneutic structures of reversibility, intertwining, and encounter. In Chiasmatic Encounters: Art, Ethics, Politics, fourteen international contributors representing various fields of expertise analyze this central concept and its significance for contemporary cultural theory. The authors discuss the work of major philosophers like Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir, Habermas, Levinas, Derrida, and Deleuze, adapting their ideas of chiasmatic relations to cultural analysis.

As the internal and external horizons of perception and experience are intertwined and reversed, various cultural texts, like a Vermeer painting, a symphony of Sibelius, a David Lynch movie, or a young girl walking in her summer dress, are seen from new and unexpected angles. The book also addresses the chiasmatic crossing between ethics and politics-- between unconditional ethical responsibility and always conditional political choices. Representing the cutting edge of contemporary cultural theory and interdisciplinary thinking, Chiasmatic Encounters is essential reading for anyone working in continental philosophy, aesthetics, or political theory.

Lexington Books

Pages: 264 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½

978-0-7391-4177-9 • Hardback • January 2018 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

978-0-7391-4179-3 • eBook • January 2018 • $105.50 • (£82.00)

Series: TEXTURES: Philosophy / Literature / Culture

Subjects: Philosophy / Aesthetics, Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy / Political

Chiasmatic Encounters

Art, Ethics, Politics

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The concept of chiasm has played major role in continental philosophy, where it has referred to various phenomenological and hermeneutic structures of reversibility, intertwining, and encounter. In Chiasmatic Encounters: Art, Ethics, Politics, fourteen international contributors representing various fields of expertise analyze this central concept and its significance for contemporary cultural theory. The authors discuss the work of major philosophers like Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir, Habermas, Levinas, Derrida, and Deleuze, adapting their ideas of chiasmatic relations to cultural analysis.

As the internal and external horizons of perception and experience are intertwined and reversed, various cultural texts, like a Vermeer painting, a symphony of Sibelius, a David Lynch movie, or a young girl walking in her summer dress, are seen from new and unexpected angles. The book also addresses the chiasmatic crossing between ethics and politics-- between unconditional ethical responsibility and always conditional political choices. Representing the cutting edge of contemporary cultural theory and interdisciplinary thinking, Chiasmatic Encounters is essential reading for anyone working in continental philosophy, aesthetics, or political theory.

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Lexington Books

Pages: 264 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½

978-0-7391-4177-9 • Hardback • January 2018 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

978-0-7391-4179-3 • eBook • January 2018 • $105.50 • (£82.00)

Series: TEXTURES: Philosophy / Literature / Culture

Subjects: Philosophy / Aesthetics, Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy / Political

Author

Kuisma Korhonen is professor of literature at the University of Oulu.
Arto Haapala is professor of aesthetics at the University of Helsinki.
Sara Heinämaa is senior lecturer and docent in theoretical philosophy at the University of Helsinki.
Kristian Klockars is university lecturer in social and moral philosophy at the University of Helsinki.
Pajari Räsänen is postdoctoral researcher in comparative literature at the University of Helsinki.

Table of Contents

General Introduction: Rereading Chiasms
Kuisma Korhonen
PART ONE: Chiasmatic Art: Between Visibility and Ideality
Introduction
1: Merleau-Ponty, The Girl with a Pearl Earring, and I
Alan Paskow
2: The Chiasmatic Metropolis: Merleau-Ponty’s “Invisible” as a Source of Inspiration for Artistic Creativity
Barbara Weber
3: Time as Chiasm: Listening for Ideality through Sibelius
Jessica Wiskus
4: Chiasms in Art
Roberto Terrosi
PART TWO: Becoming Deleuze
Introduction
5: Sartre, Deleuze and the Ontology of Make-Up
Christine Battersby
6: Black Screen, White Noise: Beyond the Face in David Lynch’s Lost Highway
Janne Vanhanen

PART THREE: Ethical Encounters
Introduction
7: Could the Caress Be the Necessary Third Term in the Chiasmatic Encounter?
Chung-yi Chu
8: Chiasmatic Ethical Encounters
Nicole Anderson
9: On the Ethical Significance of Encountering the Otherness of Literary Worlds
Hanna Meretoja
10: How to Read a Work of Art: Disclosing the World Between Phenomenology and Deconstruction
Tomi Kaarto
PART FOUR: Does Politics Need Ethics? Does Ethics Need Politics?
Introduction
11: Does Politics Need Ethics? Some Existential Meditations
Sonia Kruks
12: Why Ethics Needs Politics: A Cosmopolitan Perspective
Herta Nagl-Docekal
13: Chiasmatic Reasoning: Strategies of Self-Immunization in Jürgen Habermas
Peter Bornedal
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Topics
Contributors
Editors
Series Editor

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