{"id":3222,"date":"2020-08-10T16:07:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T15:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=3222"},"modified":"2020-08-11T09:54:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T08:54:00","slug":"ariane-mildenberg-book-on-merlau-ponty-and-modernism-reviewed-in-french-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2020\/08\/10\/ariane-mildenberg-book-on-merlau-ponty-and-modernism-reviewed-in-french-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariane Mildenberg book on Merleau-Ponty and Modernism reviewed in French Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/people\/100\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/people\/100\/mildenberg-ariane\">Dr Ariane Mildenberg<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in Modernism in the School of English, has had her volume<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/understanding-merleau-ponty-understanding-modernism-9781501302718\/\"><em> Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism<\/em><\/a> (New York: Bloomsbury, 2018) reviewed by Professor Patrick ffrench in the journal French Studies.<\/p>\n<p>ffrench writes: &#8216;Ariane Mildenberg\u2019s edited volume is among the first (with volumes on Bergson and Deleuze) of a major new series of which the explicit aim is to stimulate and substantiate new conversations between influential philosophers, predominantly of the twentieth century, and the new, pluralized conception of modernism. &#8230; Mildenberg\u2019s Introduction to the volume on Maurice Merleau-Ponty adds impetus to this aim through discerning important continuities between the processual nature of form in modernist works and aesthetics and the experiential incompletion which is a key feature of Merleau-Ponty\u2019s thought. The encounter between Merleau-Ponty and modernism is given added acuity moreover by the fairly recent phenomenological turn in critical theory and the return to Merleau-Ponty&#8217;s work across a number of fields and tendencies, including queer phenomenology, medical humanities, animal studies, environmental studies, and new materialism. The many contributors to Mildenberg&#8217;s carefully curated and substantial volume (with nineteen individually authored chapters in all) offer provocative and significant contributions to these ongoing conversations. &#8230; In addition to the many substantial and precise perspectives to be found in the first two parts of the volume, the third part offers a distinctively adventurous series of brief glossary entries, each of them nevertheless essays in their own right. &#8230; Mildenberg\u2019s volume will certainly be a significant and substantial resource for scholars working on Merleau-Ponty and phenomenology, but beyond this it has much to offer to the ongoing re-assessment of modernism and its legacies&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The full review can be read on the journal&#8217;s website, here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/fs\/article-abstract\/doi\/10.1093\/fs\/knaa110\/5877550\">https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/fs\/article-abstract\/doi\/10.1093\/fs\/knaa110\/5877550<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Ariane Mildenberg, Senior Lecturer in Modernism in the School of English, has had her volume Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism (New York: Bloomsbury, 2018) reviewed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2020\/08\/10\/ariane-mildenberg-book-on-merlau-ponty-and-modernism-reviewed-in-french-studies\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":3234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,124,9111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3222"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3238,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions\/3238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}