Metaphoric Truth: Seeing and Saying in Merleau-Ponty and Ricoeur, and a Broader Ethics Via Zuidervaart
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Read, JanetAdvisors
Smick, RebekahAffiliation
Institute for Christian StudiesIssue Date
2010Keywords
Zuidervaart, LambertMerleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961
Ricoeur, Paul
Truth (Aesthetics)
Truth
Metaphor
Language and languages
Art and philosophy
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Artistic meaning via visual art and literary fiction is debated in modern aesthetic thought. Language is a cognitive component in postmodernist aesthetic projects. This thesis investigates Maurice Merleau-Ponty's and Paul Ricoeur's writings on painting and language, respectively, whose phenomenological aim is the revelation of being in works of the imagination in tandem with Lambert Zuidervaart's approach to artistic truth which opens the lifeworld to the biotic context of the earth. For him, imaginative disclosure is integral to techno-scientific and art realms. Embodiment, natality, and expression illuminate the problematic of meaning in forms of postmodern visual art. Metaphoric imagination and metaphor are used for metaphor is a principle of articulation, not a figure of speech. Aesthetic projects connect with the lifeworld in a hermeneutic circle of meaning.Publisher
Institute for Christian StudiesType
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Master of Arts (Philosophy)Collections
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