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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816576103321

Autore

Trifonova Temenuga

Titolo

The image in French philosophy [[electronic resource] /] / Temenuga Trifonova

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY, : Rodopi, 2007

ISBN

94-012-0405-5

1-4294-8089-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Collana

Consciousness, literature & the arts ; ; 5

Disciplina

791.43684

Soggetti

Philosophy, French

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- The New Metaphysics of Immanence -- Bergson’s Matter-Image: The Degradation of the Impersonal -- Sartre’s Image-Consciousness: The Allergic Reaction to Matter -- Lyotard’s Sublime: The Ontologization of the Image -- Baudrillard’s Simulacrum: The End of Visibility -- Deleuze’s Time-Image: Getting Rid of Ourselves -- Imaginary Time -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The Image in French Philosophy challenges dominant interpretations of Bergson, Sartre, Lyotard, Baudrillard and Deleuze by arguing that their philosophy was not a critique but a revival of metaphysics as a thinking pertaining to impersonal forces and distinguished by an aversion to subjectivity and an aversion of the philosophical gaze away from the discourse of vision, and thus away from the image. Insofar as the image was part of the discourse of subjectivity/representation, getting rid of the subject involved smuggling the concept of the image out of the discourse of subjectivity/representation into a newly revived and ethically flavored metaphysical discourse—a metaphysics of immanence, which was more interested in consciousness rather than subjectivity, in the inhuman rather than the human, in the virtual rather than the real, in Time rather than temporalization, in Memory rather than memory-images, in Imagination rather than images, in sum, in impersonal forces, de-personalizing experiences, states of dis-embodiment characterized by the breaking down of sensory-motor



schemata (Bergson’s pure memory, Sartre’s image-consciousness, Deleuze’s time-image) or, more generally, in that which remains beyond representation id est beyond subjectivity (Lyotard’s sublime, Baudrillard’s fatal object). The book would be of interest to scholars and students of philosophy, aesthetics, and film theory.