Imagining Bodies: Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Imagination

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I n d e x 2 0 1 201 Index aboriginal communities and nature, 126 Abram, David, 124, 135, 143 absence: of body, 24–26, 149; in perception, 47 acting, professional, 26 aesthetic experience, 7–8 aesthetics. See art affective relations, 108–9 air, 10, 124–25 ambiguity: in body, 15, 18–19, 139–41, 143; of experience, 93–96; and neurosis , 96; in perception, 34–36, 143–44 amputation, 20–21 Anaximander, 125, 152 anchorage, 15–16 animism, 144 anonymity of individual, 105, 179 n. 4, 179 n. 5 anthropocentrism, 188 n. 42 Antrobus, J. S., 71 apeiron, 125, 152, 153 appearances, 11, 138, 141–42 archetypes, 132–33 art, 6, 7–8, 51–66; Being approached through, 155; body and significance of, 59–66; elemental images and, 130–31; expressive function of, 55–56; Impressionist , 39, 51, 55; meaning of, 56; Merleau-Ponty and, 52; mimetic function of, 52–54; Renaissance, 51; representation/expression dialectic in, 56–59; style in, 62; technical innovations in, 53–54. See also dance; film; literature; poetry athletics, 61 Bach, J. S., 65 Bachelard, Gaston, 123–24, 126, 154, 157, 183 n. 11 Balzac, Honoré de, 52 Barbaras, Renaud, 42, 44–45, 128–29, 131, 133, 153 Barrault, Jean-Louis, xi, 14 Baudrillard, Jean, 4, 130, 133, 134 becoming, ontology of, 134 behaviorism, 16–17 Being, 137–59; appearing of, 11, 138, 141–42; body and, 145, 156; brute, 141–42; chaos theory and, 187 n. 25; color and, 127; difference as constitutive of, 134; elements and, 127–30, 135, 153; fire and, 125; flesh and, 138, 142–43, 149–51; flesh of the world as bridge to, 127; general expression of, 142; imagination and understanding of, 137; imagining body and, 156–58; language and, 158–59; meaning and, 133–34, 133–34, 156; narcissism of, 157; phenomenology of, 138, 141–42; philosophical inquiry into, xi; as possibility, 152–53; question of, 156, 188 n. 42; self-imagining of, 156–57; transcendence and, 147. See also ontology Bellugue, Paul, 14 Benhabib, Seyla, 112–15 Berkeley, George, 139 Block, Ned, 8, 73 body, 13–31; aesthetic value and, 59–66; ambiguous experiences involving, 15, 139–41, 143; asymmetry of nature and, 144–46; Being and, 145, 156; expressive 2 0 2 I n d e x capacity of, xi–xii, 2–3, 14, 28–30; language and, 30; as lived, 18; metaphor and embodiment, 166 n. 35; perceptual world in relation to, 43–50; phenomenological analysis of, 14–15; relation to nature of, 135; and selfre flection, 145; traditional theories of, 16–17; transcendence of, 147–48; visceral aspect of, 148–49. See also body at this moment; body concept; body image; body language; body schema; flesh; imagining body; virtual body body at this moment, 19 body concept, 19 body image, 19, 27–28, 165 n. 28 body language, 28–29. See also gestures body schema, 6–7, 18–31, 162 n. 9; ambiguity in concept of, 18–19, 139–41; body image versus, 165 n. 28; in daydreams, 86; genesis of, 165 n. 27; Merleau-Ponty’s definition of, 19; new body habits and, 21–22; phantom limb phenomenon and, 20–21; role in perception of, 45–46; spatial orientation and, 84; specular image and, 27–28; virtual body as aspect of, 6–7, 22–30. See also virtual body bracketing, in phenomenological analysis, 76–77 brain, 20, 25–26 Brandenburg Concertos (Bach), 65 Breuer, Josef, 9 Brown, S. L., 71 Brunelleschi, Filippo, 53 brute Being, 141–42 brute essences, 153–55 Busch, Thomas, 118, 134, 142 Butler, Judith, 114, 117 caress, 106, 109, 111 Casey, Edward, 4, 8; on imagination, 69–70, 74, 79–80, 82, 86–87, 151–52, 177 n. 46; on psychology, 93 Cézanne, Paul, 40, 52, 55, 57, 58–59, 62, 157 chaos and chaos theory, 149–50, 152, 187 n. 25 Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon, 54, 62 chimpanzees, 23–24 cinema. See film Cleveland, Sidney, 20–21 Cohen, Richard, 162 n. 9 Cole, Jonathan, 165 n. 28 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 4 color: effects on body of, 44; elemental quality of, 126–27; identification of, 37–39; in Impressionist painting, 39, 57–58; particularity of, 129–30; role in perceptual structure of, 46–48 color areas, 38 consciousness: imagination and, 70, 75–76; in psychoanalytic theory, 92; role in neurosis of, 93–94; and transcendence, 146 Copeau, Jacques, 13–14 creativity: in art observers, 66; in perception, 48–49 cultural factors in self...