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,... Read More
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,... Read More
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.
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Price: $37.95
Pages: 422
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 8th November 1993
ISBN: 9780520912991
Format: eBook
BISACs: PHILOSOPHY / Political PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics
Author Bio
David Michael Levin is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University and author of several books. Most recently he edited Language Beyond Postmodernism (1997), Sites of Vision (1997), and Modernity and the Hegemony of Vision (California, 1994).
Table of Contents
CONTRIBUTORS: Hans Blumenberg, Susan Buck-Morss, Paul Davies, Thomas Flynn, Stephen Houlgate, Martin Jay, Dalia Judovitz, David Michael Levin, John McCumber, Andrea Nye, Herman Rapaport, Robert Romanyshyn, Gary Shapiro, Georgia Warnke
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.
Price: $37.95
Pages: 422
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 8th November 1993
ISBN: 9780520912991
Format: eBook
BISACs: PHILOSOPHY / Political PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics
David Michael Levin is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University and author of several books. Most recently he edited Language Beyond Postmodernism (1997), Sites of Vision (1997), and Modernity and the Hegemony of Vision (California, 1994).
CONTRIBUTORS: Hans Blumenberg, Susan Buck-Morss, Paul Davies, Thomas Flynn, Stephen Houlgate, Martin Jay, Dalia Judovitz, David Michael Levin, John McCumber, Andrea Nye, Herman Rapaport, Robert Romanyshyn, Gary Shapiro, Georgia Warnke
