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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, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged vision's allegedly superior cap...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jay, Martin, 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1993.
Colección:Centennial book.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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.