Panorama
Philosophies of the Visible
Published on 1. January 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
268 pages
978-0-8264-6004-2 (ISBN)
Description
The new electronic age has seen a radical transition from book to screen, a development which has obscured the fact that it is not what we see which matters but how we see what we see. We live in a time when the visible needs to be retheorised.Panorama presents a broad analysis of philosophies of the visible in art and culture, particularly in painting, film, photography, and literature. The work of key philosophers--Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Levinas, Barthes, Blanchot, Foucault, Bataille, Derrida, Lyotard and Deleuze--is examined in the context of visibility, expressivity, the representational and the postmodern. Contributors: Zsuzsa Baross, Robert Burch, Alessandro Carrera, Dana Hollander, Lynne Huffer, Volker Kaiser, Reginald Lilly, Robert S. Leventhal, Janet Lungstrum, Ladelle McWhorter, Ludwig Nagl, Anne Tomiche, James R. Watson, Lisa Zucker
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
412 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-6004-2 (9780826460042)
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Person
Wilhelm S. Wurzer is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh.
Content
INTRODUCTION Between the Visible and the Expressive: And In-visible Exchange, Wilhelm S. Wurzer PART ONE: POSTMODERN VISIONS 1. Rephrasing the Visible and the Expressive: Lyotard's 'Defense of the Eye' from Figure to Inarticulare Phrase, Anne Tomiche (University of Grenoble) 2. Visibility, "Bild" and "Einbildungskraft", Derrida, Barthes, Levinas, Ludwig Nagl (University of Vienna). 3. Puncturing Genres: Barthes and Derrida on the Limits of Representation, Dana Hollander (Michigan State University) PART TWO: BEYOND REPRESENTATIONAL THINKING Introduction... While Illustrating... 4. Blanchot's Gaze and Orpheus' Singing: Seeing and Listening in Poetic Inspiration, Alessandro Carrera (University of Texas). 5. Foucault and the Disappearance of the Visible Subject, Reginald Lilly (Skidmore College). PART THREE: EXPRESSIONS AND THE LIMITS OF PHILOSOPHY Introduction... Desire, Displacement, and Laughter... 6. Frames of Visibility: Si(gh)ting the Monstrous, Robert Burch (University of Alberta). 7. Francis Bacon, Logique de la sensation: The Philosopher's Painter, Zsuzsa Baross (Trent University, Canada). 8. Bataille's Erotic Displacement of Vision: Attempts at a Feminist Reading, Ladelle McWhorter (University of Richmond). 9. Luce Irigaray's Specular Mother: Lips in the Mirror, Lynne Huffer (Rice University). PART FOUR: FILMING THE (IN)VISIBLE Introduction... In Images Ending... 10. Expressionist Towers of Babel in Weimar Film and Architecture, Janet Lungstrum (University of Colorado). 11. Rewiring the Oedipal Scene: Image and Discursivity in Wim Wender's Journey 'Until the End of the World', Volker Kaiser & Robert S. Leventhal (University of Virginia). PART FIVE: CRITIQUES OF CONTEMPORARY IMAGE CULTURE Introduction... Beyond a Paradigm... 12. Imagism and the Ends of Vision: Pound and Salomon, Lisa Zucker. 13. Mediums of Freedom in Photographic Frames: Some Exposuires of Bound Transcendence, James R. Watson (Loyola University). EPILOGUE: The Paradox of Philosophy's Gaze (before & after Sept. 11), Wilhelm S. Wurzer.