Title	The Visible and the Invisible in the Interplay between Philosophy, Literature and Reality [electronic resource] / edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Imprint	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2002
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0485-5
Descript	VII, 329 p. online resource

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/conjoined pairing in the ontopoietic establishment of reality, that is, in the manifestation 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

The Thematic Study: The Visible and the Invisible in the Dynamic Manifestation of Life -- Section I Grasping The Hidden Sphere Of Reality -- Symbol and Metaphor: The Search for the โHidden Sideโ of Reality in ContemporaryPhilosophy -- Beyond Intelligibility: Ciphers, Beauty, and the Glow of Being -- Metaphoric and Metonymie Symbolism: A Development from Paul Ricoeurโs Concepts -- Where Does Meaning Come From -- Privileged Access and Merleau-Ponty -- Section II The Hidden Realities In The Everyday Life-World -- The Hidden Realities of the Everyday Life-World in Beckettโs Waiting for Godot and Genetโs The Balcony -- Phenomenology and Revolutionary Romanticism -- The Milieu: A Chart of our Margin of Play -- Section III From Inspiration To Expression -- Inspiration and its Expression: The Dialectic of Sentiment in the Writings of Benjamin Constant -- The Invisible and the Unpresentable: Barnett Newmanโs Abstract Expressionism and the Aesthetics of Merleau-Ponty -- The Visible and the Invisible: T. S. Eliotโs Little Gidding and Edmund Husserlโs Expression and Meaning -- Gadamerโs Leveling of the Visual and the Verbal, and the โExperience of Artโ -- The Miracle of Literature: An Ethical-Aesthetical Theory of Mythopoiesis -- Section IV The Invisible In Trace And Memory -- Recognizing Invisibility, Revising Memory -- Poiesis and the Withdrawal: The Garden-Motive in Henry James, Wallace Stevens, and David Mamet -- Las Bibliotecas Invisibles -- Section V The Play: Visible, Invisible -- Resemblance: Play between the Visible and the Invisible -- โSeeing Clearly in Darknessโ: Blindness as Insight in Proustโs In Search of Lost Time and Gideโs Pastoral Symphony -- The Phenomenology of Music: A Vital Source of Tagoreโs Creativity -- INDEX OF NAMES

1. Philosophy
2. Comparative literature
3. Aesthetics
4. Metaphysics
5. Modern philosophy
6. Phenomenology
7. Philosophy
8. Modern Philosophy
9. Philosophy
10. general
11. Phenomenology
12. Aesthetics
13. Comparative Literature
14. Metaphysics