Research Catalog

Title

Phenomenology of expression / by Remy C. Kwant ; translated by Henry J. Koren.

Author

Kwant, R. C. (Remigius Cornelis), 1918-2012

Publication

• Pittsburgh : Duquesne University Press, [1969]
• ©1969

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Details

Additional Authors

Koren, Henry J.

Description

191 pages; 21 cm

Subject

• Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961
• Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961
• Expression (Philosophy)
• Phenomenology
• Communication
• Misinformation
• Communication
• phenomenology
• Phenomenology

Note

• Translated from the author's unpublished ms.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical footnotes.

Contents

Preface -- Existence and expression. Expression is not limited to man's conscious life -- Hidden forms of expression -- The object of expression -- Expression as the creative disclosure of being. Philosophy as an edifice -- Seeing as the actualization of the visible -- Creation and adequation -- Expression and interiority. A thinglike conception of interiority -- Interiority as the "other side" of the body -- Expression and playfulness. The difficulty of defining the playful element -- Play and reason -- Characteristics of playfulness -- Verbal expression. Speech as adequation with being -- The structure and intentionality of speech -- Speech and expression -- The proper character of verbal expression -- Language and idea -- The privileged position of verbal expression -- Actual problems of expressive life. The predominance of science -- Return to the body -- Aversion for polished forms -- Conclusion -- Religious expression. The problem of religious expression -- Clarity and mystery -- Recognition of darkness and affirmation of light -- The relativity of man's images of God -- The question of authenticity -- Conclusion -- Index of names and subject matter.

LCCN

68059089

OCLC

• ocm00022064
• 22064
• SCSB-148873

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library