Annotation
Phenomenology, Image, Painting
Office hours: Thursday 11:00-12:00 (Room: 221)
Email: daniele.desantis@ff.cuni.cz
(Wednesday 10:50-12:25)
Room: P217 1. General Description and Aims of the Module
There is no doubt that the ontological status of what we refer to as “image” has been haunting philosophy for centuries, if not even since the very beginning of Western thought. By the same token, the structure of a “painting,” of the way in which it is supposed to reveal and disclose something to the observer testifies to a quite specific form of experience of the world. The present module’s aim is to analyze these two questions from the standpoint of a quite specific 20th century philosophical tradition, namely, phenomenology. The course will pursue a double ambition. On the one had, it will try to shed light of what it means to experience an email, or, better: it will try to clarify what an image is based upon our conscious experience of it. On the other hand, and based on the central concept of phenomenology, namely, “phenomenon,” our goal will to be verify in what sense and to what extent phenomenology’s stance on what a painting is can shed light on the notion itself of phenomenon, and vice versa (as is the case, for example, with Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Michel Henry).
Course Outline
Part 1
(Week 1-Week4)
Main Readings From:
Lectures on Image-Consciousness, Memory and Phantasy (Husserl)
The Origin of the Work of Art (Heidegger)
Part 2
(Week 5-Week 8)
Main Readings From:
The Still Life (Meyer Schapiro against Heidegger)
Truth in Painting (Derrida on Schapiro and Heidegger)
Part 3
(Week 9-Week 12)
Main Readings From:
Sense and Non-Sense (Merleau-Ponty)
Seeing the Invisible (Henry)
Recapitulation
(Week 13)