| FT-53462-05 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Galen A. Johnson | Thinking Through Merleau-Ponty's Aesthetics: The Retrieval of the Beautiful | 5/1/2005 - 6/30/2005 | $5,000.00 | Galen | A. | Johnson | | | | University of Rhode Island | Kingston | RI | 02881-1967 | USA | 2005 | Aesthetics | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
In spite of the originality of the aesthetic ideas of French philosopher, Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), we still lack a comprehensive study of his aesthetics. My project is to fill that need by completing a book with the working title, THINKING THROUGH MERLEAU-PONTY'S AESTHETICS: THE RETRIEVAL OF THE BEAUTIFUL. In Part One, the philosopher’s leading aesthetic ideas in "Eye and Mind" will be analyzed as they developed from Merleau-Ponty's studies of Leonardo, Cezanne, Klee, and Rodin. Part Two will extend his aesthetic ideas toward abstract expressionism and the contemporary debate regarding the eclipse and retrieval of the beautiful. |