Théophile Gautiers Voyage en Russie als "phänomenologisches" Experiment avant la lettre
Théophile Gautiers Voyage en Russie als "phänomenologisches" Experiment avant la lettre

Summary/Abstract: Théophile Gautier, French romanticist writer, visits Russia twice in1858/61. His Voyage en Russie (1866) is not just a travelogue, but rather an intrinsically philosophical text about travelling, about the perception of theown and the other, suggesting “(self )alienation”, “bracketing” of the world and one’s own experience as a means of aesthetic pleasure and intellectualpenetration; a reflection on the “gift of the visible”; on the mutual in- and superscriptions of reality, imagination and art – in one word: a “phenomenological”experiment avant la lettre. This paper proposes a reading of Voyage en Russie through the prism of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perception,in particular of vision

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