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Title Sites of vision : the discursive construction of sight in the history of philosophy / edited by David Michael Levin
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1997
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 498 pages) : illustrations
Contents From acoustics to optics : the rise of the metaphysical and demise of the melodic in Aristotle's Poetics / P. Christopher Smith -- Aristotle on specular regimes : the theater of philosophical discourse / James I. Porter -- Discourses of vision in seventeenth-century metaphysics / Catherine Wilson -- How to write the history of vision : understanding the relationship between Berkeley and Descartes / Margaret Atherton -- Embodying the eye of humanism : Giambattista Vico and the eye of ingenium / Sandra Rudnick Luft -- "For now we see through a glass darkly" : the systematics of Hegel's visual imagery / John Russon -- Sighting the spirit : the rhetorical visions of Geist in Hegel's Encyclopedia / John H. Smith -- Perspectives and horizons : Husserl on seeing the truth / Mary C. Rawlinson -- Ducks and rabbits : visuality in Wittgenstein / William James Earle -- Dewey's critique of democratic visual culture and its political implications / Yaron Ezrahi -- Materialist mutations of the Bilderverbot / Rebecca Comay -- Hannah Arendt : the activity of the spectator / Peg Birmingham -- Keeping Foucault and Derrida in sight : panopticism and the politics of subversion / David Michael Levin -- Difference and the ruin of representation in Gilles Deleuze / Dorothea Olkowski
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Vision -- Philosophy -- History
PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Kleinberg-Levin, David Michael, 1939-
ISBN 0585078505
9780585078502
9780262287913
0262287919
9780262621298
0262621290