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Vision’s Invisibles: Philosophical Explorations

By Veronique M. Foti

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2003
ISBN
0791457346, 9780791457344, 0791457338, 9780791457337, 9781417531301
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1375973 bytes)
Series
SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Pages
144\145
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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