Chiasmatic Encounters

Kuisma Korhonen is professor of literature at the University of Oulu. Arto Haapala is professor of aesthetics at the University of Helsinki.Sara Heinämaa is senior lecturer and docent in theoretical philosophy at the University of Helsinki. Kristian Klockars is university lecturer in social and moral philosophy at the University of Helsinki. Pajari Räsänen is postdoctoral researcher in comparative literature at the University of Helsinki.

• General Introduction: Rereading ChiasmsKuisma KorhonenPART ONE: Chiasmatic Art: Between Visibility and IdealityIntroduction1: Merleau-Ponty, The Girl with a Pearl Earring, and IAlan Paskow2: The Chiasmatic Metropolis: Merleau-Ponty’s “Invisible” as a Source of Inspiration for Artistic CreativityBarbara Weber3: Time as Chiasm: Listening for Ideality through SibeliusJessica Wiskus4: Chiasms in ArtRoberto TerrosiPART TWO: Becoming DeleuzeIntroduction5: Sartre, Deleuze and the Ontology of Make-UpChristine Battersby6: Black Screen, White Noise: Beyond the Face in David Lynch’s Lost HighwayJanne VanhanenPART THREE: Ethical EncountersIntroduction7: Could the Caress Be the Necessary Third Term in the Chiasmatic Encounter?Chung-yi Chu8: Chiasmatic Ethical EncountersNicole Anderson9: On the Ethical Significance of Encountering the Otherness of Literary WorldsHanna Meretoja10: How to Read a Work of Art: Disclosing the World Between Phenomenology and DeconstructionTomi KaartoPART FOUR: Does Politics Need Ethics? Does Ethics Need Politics?Introduction11: Does Politics Need Ethics? Some Existential MeditationsSonia Kruks12: Why Ethics Needs Politics: A Cosmopolitan PerspectiveHerta Nagl-Docekal13: Chiasmatic Reasoning: Strategies of Self-Immunization in Jürgen HabermasPeter BornedalNotesBibliographyIndex of NamesIndex of TopicsContributorsEditorsSeries Editor