Type
Text
Type
Thesis
Advisor
Casey, Edward S | O'Byrne, Anne
Date
2015-08-01
Keywords
Philosophy
Department
Department of Philosophy.
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/76629
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
Merleau-Ponty is interested in the artist at work, too busy in his lively and creative experiencing and communicating with the world to notice the birth of his style. In this way, style designates the tacit and invisible gift. With the help of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty indirectly speaks of the essence of truth and the ever-concealed actual world revealing the gift of beauty, always wrapped in style. Both of these philosophers work within a Hegelian legacy of dialectical art, yet they stretch beauty's expression to its tacit phenomenological limits. It is a body ever expressing and moving with beautiful `style' that morality and ethics encounter their impotence and dismissal of corporeality. I move towards Nietzsche as a place for encountering corporeality, wherein Agnus Heller accompanies this paper to navigate Nietzsche's turbulent philosophy. In more subtle ways, Edward S. Casey, Eduardo Mendieta and Marcia Morgan offer more tangible glimpses of corporeality within this thesis. With these diverse thinkers, I complicate Hegel's ideal beauty with Merleau-Ponty's reappropriated style, which traverses diverse thinkers and artists in an endless tracing of a beauty somewhere in the mix. | 62 pages
Recommended Citation
Pharaa, Ali Reza, "Beauty, Style: Complicating Ethics and Aesthetics With Corporeality" (2015). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 2519.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/2519