The Ground of the Image /

If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. Mistrusted by philosophy, forbidden and embraced by religions, manipulated as?spectacle...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nancy, Jean-Luc (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Visual Arts - General.
Art, Architecture & Applied Arts.
Visual Arts.
Image (Philosophy)
Aesthetics.
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
Image (Philosophie)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The image-the distinct
  • 2. Image and violence
  • 3. Forbidden representation
  • 4. Uncanny landscape
  • 5. Distinct oscillation
  • 6. Masked imagination
  • 7. Nous autres
  • 8. Visitation : of Christian painting
  • 9. The sovereign woman in painting.

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