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Downcast eyes : the denigration of vision in twentieth-century French thought / Martin Jay.

By: Series: Centennial bookPublication details: Berkeley, CA ; London : University of California Press, c1993.Description: xi, 632 p ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780520081543 (hbk.)
  • 0520081544 (hbk.)
  • 9780520088856 (pbk)
  • 0520088859 (pbk)
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Contents:
The noblest of the senses : vision from Plato to Descartes -- Dialectic of enlightenment -- The crisis of the ancien scopic régime : from the impressionists to Bergson -- The disenchantment of the eye : Bataille and the surrealists -- Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and the search for a new ontology of sight -- Lacan, Althusser, and the specular subject of ideology -- From the empire of the gaze to the society of the spectacle : Foucault and Debord -- The camera as memento mori : Barthes, Metz, and the cahiers du cinéma -- "Phallogocularcentrism" : Derrida and Irigaray -- The ethics of blindness and the postmodern sublime : Levinas and Lyotard.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Red 194 JAY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 10290

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The noblest of the senses : vision from Plato to Descartes -- Dialectic of enlightenment -- The crisis of the ancien scopic régime : from the impressionists to Bergson -- The disenchantment of the eye : Bataille and the surrealists -- Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and the search for a new ontology of sight -- Lacan, Althusser, and the specular subject of ideology -- From the empire of the gaze to the society of the spectacle : Foucault and Debord -- The camera as memento mori : Barthes, Metz, and the cahiers du cinéma -- "Phallogocularcentrism" : Derrida and Irigaray -- The ethics of blindness and the postmodern sublime : Levinas and Lyotard.