Vision's invisibles : philosophical explorations / Veronique M. Foti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fóti, Véronique Marion.

Series:

SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vision--History.

Vision.

Philosophy--History.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-130) and index.

ISBN:

9780791486801

079148680X

9781417531301

1417531304

OCLC:

61367739