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Modernity in Perspective : An Alternative Genealogy of the Modern Subject.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Conty, Arianne.
- Series:
- SUNY Series in Theology and Continental Thought Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nicholas, of Cusa, Cardinal, 1401-1464.
- Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
- Subjectivity.
- Subjectivity in art.
- Local Subjects:
- Nicholas, of Cusa, Cardinal, 1401-1464.
- Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Draws on the work of the Renaissance theologian and mystic Nicolas of Cusa to offer an alternative to Cartesian subjectivity.The normative history of modernity begins with the Renaissance and the invention of linear perspective, which places man, instead of God, at the center of the world.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- Chapter Contents
- Part I: The Premodern History of the Image
- Chapter 2: The Icon as a Gospel: Redefining the Christian Image in the Wake of the Iconoclastic Controversy
- Part II: The Seeing I/Eye: Interpretations of Linear Perspectives
- Chapter 3: Linear Perspective in the Renaissance
- Chapter 4: An Alternative Renaissance: Nicolas of Cusa
- Chapter 5: With a Clear, Mental Gaze: The Cartesian Subject
- Part III: Seeing the Blind Spot in Cartesian Optics
- Chapter 6: They Have Eyes That They Might Not See: Walter Benjamin's Aura
- Chapter 7: I Am Because the Other Thinks Me: Martin Heidegger and Jacques Lacan
- Chapter 8: The Vibration of Appearances: Sartre and Merleau-Ponty
- Chapter 9: Jean-Luc Marion: Crossing Out God
- Conclusion: White Ecstasy
- 2. The Icon as a Gospel: Reading the Christian Image in the Wake of the Iconoclastic Controversy
- Representing God
- Iconoclasm
- Sources of Iconoclasm
- Iconophilia
- 3. Linear Perspective in the Renaissance
- Plato's Rejection of Phantasmatic Art: Perspective in Ancient Greece
- Perspective in Ancient Rome
- Historians of Art on Perspective
- Filippo di ser Brunelleschi: Seeing Oneself Seeing
- The Intermezzo of Linear Perspective
- 4. An Alternative Renaissance: Nicolas of Cusa
- Cusa and Alberti
- De Visione Dei
- The Wall of Paradise
- The Structure of Belief
- Seeing is Saying
- 5. With a Clear, Mental Gaze: The Cartesian Subject
- The Perspectival Subject
- Cogitamus ergo Sumus
- The Camera Obscura
- Part III. Seeing the Blind Spot in Cartesian Optics
- 6. They Have Eyes That They Might Not See: Walter Benjamin's Aura
- The Withering of the Aura.
- The Gaze of the Aura
- The Optical Unconscious
- The Aura Thrives in its Decline
- 7. I Am Because the Other Thinks Me: Martin Heidegger and Jacques Lacan
- Martin Heidegger: The Age of the World Picture
- Jacques Lacan: I Think Therefore I Am Not
- 8. The Vibration of Appearances: Sartre and Merleau-Ponty
- Sartre: Seeing and Nothingness
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty: I See Therefore I Am
- Cézanne's Perspectives
- 9. Jean-Luc Marion: Crossing Out God
- The Invisible Mirror
- I Is Another
- The Anonymous Christ
- The Crossing of the Gaze
- 10. Conclusion: White Ecstasy
- Thou Shalt Not Freeze-Frame!
- Khôra
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-558-0659-5
- OCLC:
- 1586551835
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