Ross Clark
University of Brighton, The Faculty of Art, Faculty Member
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Art, Philosophy of Technology, Critical Theory, Aesthetics, Psychoanalysis, and 22 moreDeconstruction, Phenomenology, Continental Philosophy, Ontology, Painting, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Luc Nancy, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Bernard Stiegler, Andre Leroi-Gourhan, Interdisciplinarity, Jacques Lacan, Georges Bataille, Hegel, Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche, Theory of Art, Drawing, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, and Contemporary French Philosophyedit
- Research Fellow, in the College of Arts & Humanities (University of Brighton).
I studied ‘European Philosophy’ (BA) at Manchester Metropolitan University and ‘Philosophy and Literature’ (MA) at the University of Sussex. My research interests include recent contemporary French philosophy and 20th Century Phenomenology.edit
In this paper I put forward an argument concerning the place and significance of painting in Merleau-Ponty’s famous last essay Eye and Mind. I argue that for Merleau-Ponty modern philosophy comes about through an engagement with vision –... more
In this paper I put forward an argument concerning the place and significance of painting in Merleau-Ponty’s famous last essay Eye and Mind. I argue that for Merleau-Ponty modern philosophy comes about through an engagement with vision – in an attempt to think its peculiar virtue of “action at a distance” – but ends up betraying this dynamic, by offering us an account of vision that is grounded in the spontaneity of the mind. In this sense I claim that Eye and Mind is genealogical in intent, and that Merleau-Ponty’s analysis of painting is central to accomplishing this task.
