Merleau ponty a duvida de cezanne biography

French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger in addition to being closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre..

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French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger in addition to being closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre.

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Merleau-Ponty about Le doute de Cézanne

Authors

Thomas Baumeister Radboud University Nijmegen

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Keywords:

aesthetics, primordiality, painting, art, phenomenology, Cézanne, Merleau-Ponty

Abstract

Merleau-Ponty’s essay about Cézanne’s doubt from 1946 is still in discussion.

Merleau-Ponty tries to explain the peculiarities of Cézanne’s pictorial language, for instance his abandonment of the geometrical perspective, as expression of, what he calls, the “primordial perception”, which is free from the distortions of metaphysical dualism and of modern sciences.

There are two main problems here: 1. that primordiality remains an obscure notion, which is more explained by Cézannes work, than it explains it. 2. Merleau-Ponty tends to forget, that Cézanne’s perception is first of all a painters per