Thèmes fondamentaux de l'Esthétique phénoménologique Française: Maurice Merleau-Ponty et Henri Maldiney

Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Henri Maldiney are in profound agreement as phenomenolists and in regard specifically to aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Nevertheless they differ somewhat when it comes to the notion of sensation (< aisthesis ) concerning its role in constituting the origen of works of art. For Merleau-Ponty, the horizon of the sensible and sensation is the "flesh", whilst Maldiney conceives the horizon of feeling in which works of art takes form as "rhythm", relating to the structure in movement. Both offer full significance to the phenomenolgy of art as it survived and grew in development in the second half of the 20th century.