caa a22 4500 463161122 CHVBK 20180406164748.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10746-007-9069-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10746-007-9069-2 Erdinast-Vulcan Daphna The English Department, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel aut That Which "Has No Name in Philosophy”: Merleau-Ponty and the Language of Literature [Elektronische Daten] [Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan] In this paper I address some related aspects of Merleau-Ponty's unfinished texts, The Visible and the Invisible and The Prose of the World. The point of departure for my reading of these works is the sense of philosophical disillusionment which underlies and motivates them, and which, I argue, leads Merleau-Ponty towards an engagement with art in general and with literature in particular. I suggest that Merleau-Ponty's emerging conception of ethics—premised on the paradox of a "universal singularity” and concerned with the concrete experience of the individual subject, rather than with abstractions and formal categories—can best be articulated through the formalist concept of "defamiliarization,” the fundamental performativity of all literature, and the dialogic relations which, though inherent in all discourse, become most powerfully evident in the dynamics of reading. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2007 Chiasm nationallicence Defamiliarization nationallicence Ethics nationallicence Flesh nationallicence Literariness nationallicence Performativity nationallicence Phenomenology nationallicence Perception nationallicence Speech nationallicence Subjectivity nationallicence Human Studies Springer Netherlands 30/4(2007-12-01), 395-409 0163-8548 30:4<395 2007 30 10746 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-007-9069-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-007-9069-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Erdinast-Vulcan Daphna The English Department, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Human Studies Springer Netherlands 30/4(2007-12-01), 395-409 0163-8548 30:4<395 2007 30 10746 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer