Vision's invisibles [[electronic resource] ] : philosophical explorations / / Véronique M. Fóti

• Autore: Fóti Véronique Marion
• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (145 p.)
• Disciplina: 121/.35
• Soggetto topico: Vision - History; Philosophy - History
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-130) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prospect -- Greek Philosophy -- Glimpsing Alterity and Differentiation -- Beauty, Eros, and Blindness in the Platonic Education of Vision -- The Legacy of Descartes -- Mechanism, Reasoning, and the Institution of Nature -- The Specularity of Representation -- Post-Phenomenological Perspectives -- The Gravity and (In)visibility of Flesh -- Imaging Invisibles -- Retrospect -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index of Persons -- Index of Topics
• Sommario/riassunto: Although philosophy today has abandoned its former fascination with transcendent invisibles, it has left largely unexamined historical articulations of the divide between 'the visible' and 'the invisible.' Vision's Invisibles argues that such a self-examination is necessary for the sensitization of philosophical sight, as well as for engagements with visuality in other domains. To this end, it investigates a range of challenging understandings of visuality in its relation to invisibles, as articulated in the texts of key historical thinkers—Heraclitus, Plato, and Descartes—and of twentieth-century philosophers, including Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, Nancy, Derrida, and Heidegger.
• Titolo autorizzato: Vision's invisibles
• ISBN: 0-7914-8680-X; 1-4175-3130-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813867603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II