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(2017) Modernism and phenomenology, Dordrecht, Springer.
On apples, broken frames and fallenness
phenomenology and the unfamiliar gaze in Cézanne, stein and kafka
Ariane Mildenberg
pp. 41-72
When Virginia Woolf first laid eyes on one of Paul Cézanne's still lifes with apples in April 1918 she wrote in her diary: "There are 6 apples in the Cézanne picture. What can 6 apples not be? I began to wonder. Theres their relationship to each other, & their colour, & their solidity.'1,2 Cézanne wanted to "astonish Paris with an apple.'3 Astonishment—""wonder" before the world,'4 as Eugen Fink, Husserl's assistant called it—is the motive for phenomenology, recalling Aristotle's claim that "wonder is the source origin of philosophy itself, because it represents man's primary thirst for knowledge.'5
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-349-59251-7_2
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Mildenberg, A. (2017). On apples, broken frames and fallenness: phenomenology and the unfamiliar gaze in Cézanne, stein and kafka, in Modernism and phenomenology, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 41-72.
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