The Visible and the Invisible in the Interplay between Philosophy, Literature and Reality

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Merleau-Ponty's categories of the visible and the invisible are investigated afresh and with originality in this penetrating collection of literary and philosophical inquiries. Going beyond the traditional and current references to the mental and the sensory, mind and body, perceptual content and the abstract ideas conveyed in language, etc., these studies range from the `hidden spheres of reality', to the play of the visible and the invisible left as traces in works of human genius, the origins of intellect and language, the real and the imaginary in literature, and the `hidden realities' in the philosophy of the everyday world. These literary and philosophical probings collectively reveal the role of this disjoined/conjoinedpairing in the ontopoietic establishment of reality, that is, in themanifestation of the logos of life. In tandem they bring to light the hidden play of the visible and the invisible in the emergence of our vital, societal, intimate, intellectual, and creative involvements. Front Matter....Pages i-vii The Thematic Study: The Visible and the Invisible in the Dynamic Manifestation of Life....Pages 1-7 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 Symbol and Metaphor: The Search for the “Hidden Side” of Reality in Contemporary Philosophy....Pages 11-25 Beyond Intelligibility: Ciphers, Beauty, and the Glow of Being....Pages 27-47 Metaphoric and Metonymic Symbolism: A Development from Paul Ricoeur’s Concepts....Pages 49-61 Where does Meaning Come from?....Pages 63-69 Privileged Access and Merleau-Ponty....Pages 71-78 Front Matter....Pages 79-79 The Hidden Realities of the Everyday Life-World in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Genet’s The Balcony ....Pages 81-115 Phenomenology and Revolutionary Romanticism....Pages 117-137 The Milieu: A Chart of Our Margin of Play....Pages 139-155 Front Matter....Pages 157-157 Inspiration and its Expression: The Dialectic of Sentiment in the Writings of Benjamin Constant....Pages 159-177 The Invisible and the Unpresentable: Barnett Newman’s Abstract Expressionism and the Aesthetics of Merleau-Ponty....Pages 179-189 The Visible and the Invisible: T. S. Eliot’s Little Gidding and Edmund Husserl’s Expression and Meaning ....Pages 191-198 Gadamer’s Leveling of the Visual and the Verbal, and the “Experience of Art”....Pages 199-209 The Miracle of Literature....Pages 211-231 Front Matter....Pages 233-233 Recognizing Invisibility, Revising Memory....Pages 235-252 Poiesis and the Withdrawal: The Garden-Motive in Henry James, Wallace Stevens, and David Mamet....Pages 253-278 Las Bibliotecas Invisibles....Pages 279-290 Front Matter....Pages 291-291 Resemblance: Play Between the Visible and the Invisible....Pages 293-304 “Seeing Clearly in Darkness”: Blindness as Insight in Proust’S in Search of Lost Time and Gide’s Pastoral Symphony ....Pages 305-310 The Phenomenology of Music: A Vital Source of Tagore’s Creativity....Pages 311-318 Back Matter....Pages 319-329