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Book SynopsisTrade Review“The basic idea behind this marvelous book is simple: contrast the ordinary and what defines escape from the ordinary, call that ecstasy. This idea is used to yield wonderfully challenging results. This virtuoso performance, erudite and very smart, is a book I wish I had written.”
—David Carrier,Case Western Reserve University
“Lucidly and elegantly written, this is a significant contribution to phenomenology and literary/cultural theory alike.”
—M. V. Marder Choice
“The Ecstatic Quotidian is a scholarly, detailed overview of the places where modernist art and phenomenology intersect. It is an excellent resource for those who want to understand the ways in which modernist art and philosophy are indebted to one another. By engaging philosophy, literature, and visual art into such a productive dialogue with one another, the author succeeds in placing some of our basic assumptions about these forms and their differences into question as well.”
—K. Gover Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Quotidian and Literary-Phenomenological Departures from Everydayness
2. Sources of Ecstasis in Childhood Experience
3. Literary Phenomenology from the Natural Attitude to Recognition
4. The Mysterious and Poetry of the World’s Inner Horizons
5. The Painterly and the Poetic Image Between Rilke and Cézanne
6. The Silent Ecstasis of Vision
7. Ecstatic Mimesis in Trompe l’oeil
Epilogue
References
Index
