| Description |
xii, 408 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / David Michael Levin -- Light as a metaphor for truth / Hans Blumenberg -- Vision, representation, and technology in Descartes / Dalia Judovitz -- Vision, reflection, and openness / Stephen Houlgate -- In the shadows of philosophy / Gary Shapiro -- Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and the search for a new ontology of sight / Martin Jay -- Decline and fall / David Michael Levin -- Time's cinders / Herman Rapaport -- Derrida and the closure of vision / John McCumber -- Face and the caress / Paul Davies -- Foucault and the eclipse of vision / Thomas R. Flynn -- Ocularcentrism and social criticism / Georgia Warnke -- Dream world of mass culture / Susan Buck-Morss -- Despotic eye and its shadow / Robert D. Romanyshyn -- Assisting at the birth and death of philosophic vision / Andrea Nye -- His master's eye / Mieke Bal. |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Modern.
|
|
Vision.
|
| Added Author |
Levin, David Michael, 1939-
|
| ISBN |
0520079736 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
|
0520079728 (cloth : alk. paper) |
|
