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The ethics of visuality : Levinas and the contemporary gaze /
Our world is saturated with images. Images multiply around us, having reached the status of essentially reproducible commodities. Overwhelmed by this proliferation of visual stimuli, our gaze becomes increasingly bored and distracted. Do we ever really read and engage with images? Can they ever prov...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Hebrew |
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London :
I.B. Tauris,
2013.
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| Colección: | International library of contemporary philosophy ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Our world is saturated with images. Images multiply around us, having reached the status of essentially reproducible commodities. Overwhelmed by this proliferation of visual stimuli, our gaze becomes increasingly bored and distracted. Do we ever really read and engage with images? Can they ever provide the sense of meaningfulness we crave?French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas confronted and subverted these questions. A superficial reading of his works might indicate an ambivalence if not an outright hostility towards the world of images; he objected to the medium's finite, flat character and, mo. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (176 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780857733337 0857733338 9780857722225 0857722220 129966413X 9781299664135 1780765150 9781780765150 |