Downcast eyes the denigration of vision in twentieth-century French thought
Long considered "the noblest of the senses," vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged vision's allegedly superior cap...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
1993.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b32103566*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
