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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 of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged its allegedly superior cap...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkerley :
University of California Press,
1993.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Downcast Eyes: THE DENIGRATION OF VISION IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY FRENCH THOUGHT; A CENTENNIAL BOOK; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: The Noblest of the Senses: Vision from Plato to Descartes; CHAPTER TWO: Dialectic of EnLIGHTenment; CHAPTER THREE: The Crisis of the Ancien Scopic Régime: From the Impressionists to Bergson; CHAPTER FOUR: The Disenchantment of the Eye: Bataille and the Surrealists; CHAPTER FIVE: Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and the Search for a New Ontology of Sight
- CHAPTER SIX: Lacan, Althusser, and the Specular Subject of IdeologyCHAPTER SEVEN: From the Empire of the Gaze to the Society of the Spectacle: Foucault and Debord; CHAPTER EIGHT: The Camera as Memento Mori: Barthes, Metz, and the Cahiers du Cinéma; CHAPTER NINE: ""Phallogocularcentrism"": Derrida and lrigaray; CHAPTER TEN: The Ethics of Blindness and the PostmodernSublime: Levinas and Lyotard; Conclusion; Index