Cultivating Perception through Artworks: Phenomenological Enactments of Ethics,

Description: Cultivating Perception through Artworks by Helen A. Fielding What are the ethical, political and cultural consequences of forgetting how to trust our senses? How can artworks help us see, sense, think, and interact in ways that are outside of the systems of convention and order that frame so much of our lives? In Cultivating Perception through Artworks, Helen Fielding challenges us to think alongside and according to artworks, cultivating a perception of what is really there and being expressed by them.Drawing from and expanding on the work of philosophers such as Luce Irigaray and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Fielding urges us to trust our senses and engage relationally with works of art in the here and now rather than distancing and systematizing them as aesthetic objects. Cultivating Perception through Artworks examines examples as diverse as a Rembrandt painting, M. NourbeSe Philips poetry, and Louise Bourgeois public sculpture, to demonstrate how artworks enact ethics, politics, or culture. By engaging with different art forms and discovering the unique way that each opens us to the world in a new and unexpected ways, Fielding reveals the importance of our moral, political, and cultural lives. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Helen A. Fielding is Professor of Philosophy and Gender, Sexuality and Womens Studies at The University of Western Ontario in Canada. Her research focuses on the intersections of feminist and critical phenomenology, and art. She is the co-editor with Dorothea Olkowski of Feminist Phenomenology Futures (Indiana University Press, 2017) and, with Christina SchÜes and D. Olkowski, of Time in Feminist Phenomenology (Indiana University Press, 2011). Table of Contents AcknowledgmentsIntroductionEnacting Ethics1. Perceptual Ethics2. The Ethics of Embodied LogosEnacting Politics3. Experiencing Public Space4. Building Different WorldsEnacting Culture5. Polyphonic Attunement6. Decolonizing ReasonBibliographyIndex Review "Cultivating Perception through Artworks is written with an acuity that is as refreshing as it is empowering and is an indispensable guide for those of us wishing to think accurately and compassionately within todays contexts of global challenge and strife. Fieldings art-based cultivations of embodied perception help practitioners deviate from the varied cognitive-linguistic systems and binary logics in which we are embedded and through which all manner of inequities are rationalized and allowed to proliferate. Her demonstrations reveal how we may reconfigure our often-overstimulated senses and learn to trust them as means of "encountering alterity without appropriation, domination, or fusion"."—Jorella Andrews, Goldsmiths, University of London"In Cultivating Perception through Artworks, Fielding radiantly presents the reader with living encounters with artworks in which painting unveils the invisible, seemingly floating sculptures mark time, and poetry tells stories that cannot be told—thus disclosing the ethical, political, and cultural potential of her rich notion of embodied perceptual cognition. With a distinctive feminist, critical phenomenological approach, Fielding thinks alongside artworks, adroitly interweaving perception with reflection in the quest for respectful attunement to alterity and an openness to the movement of life."—Mariana Ortega, author of In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self"In this important work, Helen A. Fielding shows us what it would mean to think and perceive with artworks, bringing them to life on the page in ways that teach us to do philosophy differently. Engaging with Merleau-Ponty, as well as Arendt, Irigaray, Heidegger and others, Fielding brings phenomenology and art to bear on, and to speak to, one another. This delicate and insightful balance means that Fieldings phenomenological approach and her theoretical analyses flow from the artworks with which she stays, critically transforming how phenomenology takes place. More than a question of application or description, this is an intertwining that shows phenomenology of art at its best."—Alia Al-Saji, McGill University Review Quote " Cultivating Perception through Artworks is written with an acuity that is as refreshing as it is empowering and is an indispensable guide for those of us wishing to think accurately and compassionately within todays contexts of global challenge and strife. Fieldings art-based cultivations of embodied perception help practitioners deviate from the varied cognitive-linguistic systems and binary logics in which we are embedded and through which all manner of inequities are rationalized and allowed to proliferate. Her demonstrations reveal how we may reconfigure our often-overstimulated senses and learn to trust them as means of "encountering alterity without appropriation, domination, or fusion"."--Jorella Andrews, Goldsmiths, University of London "In Cultivating Perception through Artworks , Fielding radiantly presents the reader with living encounters with artworks in which painting unveils the invisible, seemingly floating sculptures mark time, and poetry tells stories that cannot be told--thus disclosing the ethical, political, and cultural potential of her rich notion of embodied perceptual cognition. With a distinctive feminist, critical phenomenological approach, Fielding thinks alongside artworks, adroitly interweaving perception with reflection in the quest for respectful attunement to alterity and an openness to the movement of life."--Mariana Ortega, author of In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self "In this important work, Helen A. Fielding shows us what it would mean to think and perceive with artworks , bringing them to life on the page in ways that teach us to do philosophy differently. Engaging with Merleau-Ponty, as well as Arendt, Irigaray, Heidegger and others, Fielding brings phenomenology and art to bear on, and to speak to, one another. This delicate and insightful balance means that Fieldings phenomenological approach and her theoretical analyses flow from the artworks with which she stays, critically transforming how phenomenology takes place. More than a question of application or description, this is an intertwining that shows phenomenology of art at its best."--Alia Al-Saji, McGill University Details ISBN0253059356 Author Helen A. Fielding Short Title Cultivating Perception Through Artworks Publisher Indiana University Press Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 0253059356 ISBN-13 9780253059352 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2021-11-30 Subtitle Phenomenological Enactments of Ethics, Politics, and Culture Imprint Indiana University Press Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2021-11-30 NZ Release Date 2021-11-30 US Release Date 2021-11-30 UK Release Date 2021-11-30 Place of Publication Bloomington, IN Pages 248 Illustrations 11 Illustrations, black and white Alternative 9780253059321 DEWEY 701.15 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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