Cezanne's doubt

is cezanne's practice as the attempt to capture the pre-thetic experience of the world.

His practice as the attempt to capture the pre-thetic experience of the world

is cezanne's fundamental challenge to objective thought by remaining committed to our lived perspective and attempting to capture an 'emerging order' that nevertheless is 'organizing itself before our eyes.

Thus, Cezanne expresses a pre-reflective knowledge of lived experience in which distortions and contradictions exist without rupturing our contact with the world. As such, Cezanne's efforts constitute a fundamental challenge to objective thought by remaining committed to our lived perspective. Cezanne, much in the manner of Gestalt psychology, attempts to capture an 'emerging order' that nevertheless is 'organizing itself before our eyes' (65).

is indicative of the precarity of every attempt at expression, like a step taken in the fog-no one can say where, if anywhere, it will lead.

In the preface to Sense and Non-Sense, Merleau-Ponty writes that Cezanne provides an example for the precarity of every attempt at expression, 'like a step taken in the fog-no one can say where, if anywhere, it will lead' (SNS, 3). (Landes 35)

is the chaos of sensation before intellectual distinctions are brought in.

the attempt to respond to the 'chaos of sensation' prior to the objective world of intellectual judgment. (Landes 36)

is the idea that his paintings show us the structure of the visual world, in which not all objects are attended to at one time from one point of view, instead our perceived world is structured by a plurality of overlapping perspectives within which different aspects are somehow seen together, as aspects of just one world.

As such, according to Merleau-Ponty, Cezanne's paintings show us the structure of the visual world, in which not all objects are attended to at one time from one point of view... instead our perceived world is structured by a plurality of overlapping perspectives within which different aspects are somehow seen together, as aspects of just one world. (intro to merleau ponty 'world of perception' : 19)

cezanne's doubt, n.Definitions

cezanne's doubt