Downcast eyes : the denigration of vision in twentieth-century French thought

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Jay, Martin, 1944- (Author)
Format Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, c1993
Subjects
francouzská filozofie
vizuální vnímání
kognitivní věda
Online AccessBiografie
Anotace
ISBN0520088859
978-0-520-08885-6
Physical Descriptionxi, 632 s. ; 24 cm

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Table of Contents:
  • The noblest of the senses : vision from Plato to Descartes
  • Dialectic of enlightenment
  • The crisis of the ancien scopic régime : from the impressionists to Bergson
  • The disenchantment of the eye : Bataille and the surrealists
  • Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and the search for a new ontology of sight
  • Lacan, Althusser, and the specular subject of ideology
  • From the empire of the gaze to the society of the spectacle : Foucault and Debord
  • The camera as memento mori : Barthes, Metz, and the cahiers du cinéma
  • "Phallogocularcentrism" : Derrida and Irigaray
  • The ethics of blindness and the postmodern sublime : Levinas and Lyotard

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