Category: Chiasmi International

Existence, diacritiques, animalité
Existence, Diacritics, Animality
Esistenza, diacritico, animalità

Chiasmi International 12 presents an extraordinary, unpublished extract from the first course Merleau-Ponty taught at the Collège de France. It is one of the few places where he speaks of cinema and its literal sense of movement. Thus, a “Special Section” called “Cinema and the Philosophy of Movement” is devoted to this topic. It contains six essays, two of which were written by Chiasmi International editors, Mauro Carbone and Pierre Rodrigo. Moreover, this issue collects a wide scope of essays, focusing specially on Merleau-Ponty’s ontology and on his reflection about dance and painting.

From Italy to Mexico, and all the way to Japan, then back to the United States: the annus mirabilis of the centenary of Merleau-Ponty’s birth was celebrated […]