| Description |
xii, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
12. Dream World of Mass Culture: Walter Benjamin's Theory of Modernity and the Dialectics of Seeing / Susan Buck-Morss -- 13. The Despotic Eye and Its Shadow: Media Image in the Age of Literacy / Robert D. Romanyshyn -- 14. Assisting at the Birth and Death of Philosophic Vision / Andrea Nye -- 15. His Master's Eye / Mieke Bal |
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Introduction / David Michael Levin -- 1. Light as a Metaphor for Truth: At the Preliminary Stage of Philosophical Concept Formation / Hans Blumenberg -- 2. Vision, Representation, and Technology in Descartes / Dalia Judovitz -- 3. Vision, Reflection, and Openness: The "Hegemony of Vision" from a Hegelian Point of View / Stephen Houlgate -- 4. In the Shadows of Philosophy: Nietzsche and the Question of Vision / Gary Shapiro -- 5. Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and the Search for a New Ontology of Sight / Martin Jay -- 6. Decline and Fall: Ocularcentrism in Heidegger's Reading of the History of Metaphysics / David Michael Levin -- 7. Time's Cinders / Herman Rapaport -- 8. Derrida and the Closure of Vision / John McCumber -- 9. The Face and the Caress: Levinas's Ethical Alterations of Sensibility / Paul Davies -- 10. Foucault and the Eclipse of Vision / Thomas R. Flynn -- 11. Ocularcentrism and Social Criticism / Georgia Warnke |
| Summary |
"This collection of original essays by preeminent interpreters of continental philosophy explores the question of whether Western thought and culture have been dominated by a vision-centered paradigm of knowledge, ethics, and power. It focuses on the character of vision in modern philosophy and on arguments for and against the view that contemporary life and thought are distinctively "ocularcentric." The authors examine these ideas in the context of the history of philosophy and consider the character of visual discourse in the writings of Plato, Descartes, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Benjamin, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Derrida, Foucault, Gadamer, Wittgenstein, and Habermas. With essays on television, the visual arts, and feminism, the book will interest readers in cultural studies, gender studies, and art history as well as philosophers." -- Publisher description |
| Analysis |
Philosophy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| SUBJECT |
International Conference on Low Vision. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92803772
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| Subject |
Philosophy, Modern.
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Vision.
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| Author |
Kleinberg-Levin, David Michael, 1939-
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| LC no. |
93001523 |
| ISBN |
0520079728 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0520079736 (paper : alk. paper) |
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