Jorella Andrews is Head of the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Andrews' book -- like a compelling piece of music or a film -- demands repeated encounters; it demands to be read again so that the details of each individual argument can be savored anew, appreciated within the context of a fully-expanded expression (one that could be realized only at the end) … An ambitious, erudite undertaking.

• AcknowledgementsList of ImagesINTRODUCTION: Painting as ThoughtQuestionsRethinking thoughtMerleau-Ponty’s trans-dimensional investigations An incarnational logic‘Digging in the same place’ — Merleau-Ponty’s broad project PART ONE: Painting — Re-thinking Thought beyond Dualism and Positivism1 ‘Nature’ and ‘Consciousness’— Merleau-Ponty’s Critical Encounter with DualismBroken?The problems of rationalism and empiricismThe naïve consciousness and its reconstructive powersThe significance of Gestalt Describing behaviour ­— its limitations and scope2 The Symbolic Forms and the Question of Integrated BeingObstaclesThe three forms of behaviourBeyond inherited structuresPART TWO: Painting — Re-Thinking Thought as Perceptual and Embodied3 Description and the Re-education of SightHow to start againEmbodied perception — our only access to the real?Description: the first philosophical actInto the base of ‘inhuman’ nature4 Embodied ThoughtHow do bodies think?Peculiar permanence The body in its intentional beingIntersubjectivity, intercorporeality and otherness — foundational hospitalityPART THREE: Painting — Re-Thinking Thought as ‘Silence’ and ‘Speech’5 The Being of Language, ReconceivedA new index of curvatureMerleau-Ponty and the priority of expression SyntaxLanguage, truth and ‘universality’6 Visual Language and the ‘Unity’ of PaintingModern painting and the paradoxes of communicationCultures of display and debate — renegotiating particularity-generalityPART FOUR: Painting — Re-Thinking Thought as ‘Secret Science’7 Visibility, the ‘Flesh’ of the WorldThe ‘common stuff … is the visible’The visible and the invisibleIndirect ontology and anonymous visibilityChiasm, illusion, dis-illusionImmersive thought and ‘having at a distance’ 8 Visual Treatises and the Search for DepthPainterly thought as secret scienceIntermundane spaceDepth of being and bodyThe painter’s effort and the fragility of the real Visual treatisesBibliographyIndex

Jorella Andrews is Head of the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Andrews' book -- like a compelling piece of music or a film -- demands repeated encounters; it demands to be read again so that the details of each individual argument can be savored anew, appreciated within the context of a fully-expanded expression (one that could be realized only at the end) … An ambitious, erudite undertaking.

• AcknowledgementsList of ImagesINTRODUCTION: Painting as ThoughtQuestionsRethinking thoughtMerleau-Ponty’s trans-dimensional investigations An incarnational logic‘Digging in the same place’ — Merleau-Ponty’s broad project PART ONE: Painting — Re-thinking Thought beyond Dualism and Positivism1 ‘Nature’ and ‘Consciousness’— Merleau-Ponty’s Critical Encounter with DualismBroken?The problems of rationalism and empiricismThe naïve consciousness and its reconstructive powersThe significance of Gestalt Describing behaviour ­— its limitations and scope2 The Symbolic Forms and the Question of Integrated BeingObstaclesThe three forms of behaviourBeyond inherited structuresPART TWO: Painting — Re-Thinking Thought as Perceptual and Embodied3 Description and the Re-education of SightHow to start againEmbodied perception — our only access to the real?Description: the first philosophical actInto the base of ‘inhuman’ nature4 Embodied ThoughtHow do bodies think?Peculiar permanence The body in its intentional beingIntersubjectivity, intercorporeality and otherness — foundational hospitalityPART THREE: Painting — Re-Thinking Thought as ‘Silence’ and ‘Speech’5 The Being of Language, ReconceivedA new index of curvatureMerleau-Ponty and the priority of expression SyntaxLanguage, truth and ‘universality’6 Visual Language and the ‘Unity’ of PaintingModern painting and the paradoxes of communicationCultures of display and debate — renegotiating particularity-generalityPART FOUR: Painting — Re-Thinking Thought as ‘Secret Science’7 Visibility, the ‘Flesh’ of the WorldThe ‘common stuff … is the visible’The visible and the invisibleIndirect ontology and anonymous visibilityChiasm, illusion, dis-illusionImmersive thought and ‘having at a distance’ 8 Visual Treatises and the Search for DepthPainterly thought as secret scienceIntermundane spaceDepth of being and bodyThe painter’s effort and the fragility of the real Visual treatisesBibliographyIndex

Jorella Andrews is Head of the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Andrews' book -- like a compelling piece of music or a film -- demands repeated encounters; it demands to be read again so that the details of each individual argument can be savored anew, appreciated within the context of a fully-expanded expression (one that could be realized only at the end) … An ambitious, erudite undertaking.

• AcknowledgementsList of ImagesINTRODUCTION: Painting as ThoughtQuestionsRethinking thoughtMerleau-Ponty’s trans-dimensional investigations An incarnational logic‘Digging in the same place’ — Merleau-Ponty’s broad project PART ONE: Painting — Re-thinking Thought beyond Dualism and Positivism1 ‘Nature’ and ‘Consciousness’— Merleau-Ponty’s Critical Encounter with DualismBroken?The problems of rationalism and empiricismThe naïve consciousness and its reconstructive powersThe significance of Gestalt Describing behaviour ­— its limitations and scope2 The Symbolic Forms and the Question of Integrated BeingObstaclesThe three forms of behaviourBeyond inherited structuresPART TWO: Painting — Re-Thinking Thought as Perceptual and Embodied3 Description and the Re-education of SightHow to start againEmbodied perception — our only access to the real?Description: the first philosophical actInto the base of ‘inhuman’ nature4 Embodied ThoughtHow do bodies think?Peculiar permanence The body in its intentional beingIntersubjectivity, intercorporeality and otherness — foundational hospitalityPART THREE: Painting — Re-Thinking Thought as ‘Silence’ and ‘Speech’5 The Being of Language, ReconceivedA new index of curvatureMerleau-Ponty and the priority of expression SyntaxLanguage, truth and ‘universality’6 Visual Language and the ‘Unity’ of PaintingModern painting and the paradoxes of communicationCultures of display and debate — renegotiating particularity-generalityPART FOUR: Painting — Re-Thinking Thought as ‘Secret Science’7 Visibility, the ‘Flesh’ of the WorldThe ‘common stuff … is the visible’The visible and the invisibleIndirect ontology and anonymous visibilityChiasm, illusion, dis-illusionImmersive thought and ‘having at a distance’ 8 Visual Treatises and the Search for DepthPainterly thought as secret scienceIntermundane spaceDepth of being and bodyThe painter’s effort and the fragility of the real Visual treatisesBibliographyIndex