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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Table of ContentsGeneral 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
