The madness of vision : on baroque aesthetics /

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This is a study of phenomenological aesthetics of the baroque. Integrating the work of Merleau-Ponty with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Renaissance studies in optics, and twentieth-century mathematics, the author asserts the materiality of the body and world in her aesthetic theory. All vision is embodie...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Buci-Glucksmann, Christine (Author)
Other Authors: Baker, Dorothy Zayatz (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2013]
Series:Series in Continental thought ; no. 44.
Subjects:
1600-1699
Aesthetics, Modern > 17th century.
Esthétique > 17e siècle.
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Phenomenology.
PHILOSOPHY > Essays.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
ART > History > General.
Aesthetics, Modern.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prelude : a "Je ne Sais Quoi"
  • The stage of vision
  • The work of the gaze
  • Seeingness, or, The eye of the phantasm
  • The rhetorical telescope I : Il Mirabile, il Furore
  • The rhetorical telescope II : figures of nothingness
  • Palimpsests of the ungazeable
  • Finale : the burning of vision.

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