Lecture
LCCP Colloquium: “Artistic Expression in Merleau-Ponty as the Phenomenon of Being-with”
- Date
- Thursday 28 November 2024
- Time
- Location
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P.J. Veth
Nonnensteeg 1-3
2311 VJ Leiden - Room
- 0.06
Leiden Centre for Continental Philosophy is pleased to announce a talk by Paulina Morales Guzmán, B.A. in Philosophy and Aesthetics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Masters in Contemporary Philosophy from the Diego Portales University and currently PhD Candidate at Leiden University and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, co-supervised by Dr. Susanna Lindberg and Dr. Andrea Potestà (Chile). Thesis title: “Aesthetics of the common: a (post)phenomenological analysis of the expression of and from the collective”.
Abstract
Artistic expression is often considered the product of an individual creator or artist, typically aligned with the traditional notion of the subject, juxtaposed with the work of art as an object. Maurice Merleau-Ponty is one of several thinkers who challenge this conventional framework, offering a critique of the figure of the subject by emphasizing embodied existence. Within the context of Merleaupontian phenomenology and his body-centered approach to artistic expression, I aim to explore artistic expression as arising from a shared existence. This perspective conceives artistic expression as an instance where existence is fundamentally relational—defined by being-with others. It transcends the ownership or experience of an isolated ‘I,’ instead manifesting prior to the thematic distinction of the ‘I,’ ‘you,’ and ‘we.’