Downcast eyes : the denigration of vision in twentieth-century French thought /
Jay, Martin, 1944-
Downcast eyes : the denigration of vision in twentieth-century French thought / Martin Jay. - Berkeley, CA ; London : University of California Press, c1993. - xi, 632 p ; 24 cm. - A Centennial book. . - Centennial book. .
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.
9780520081543 (hbk.) 0520081544 (hbk.) 9780520088856 (pbk) 0520088859 (pbk)
lc93000347
Vision.
Cognition and culture.
Philosophy, French--20th century.
France--Civilization--20th century.
France--Intellectual life--20th century.
Downcast eyes : the denigration of vision in twentieth-century French thought / Martin Jay. - Berkeley, CA ; London : University of California Press, c1993. - xi, 632 p ; 24 cm. - A Centennial book. . - Centennial book. .
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.
9780520081543 (hbk.) 0520081544 (hbk.) 9780520088856 (pbk) 0520088859 (pbk)
lc93000347
Vision.
Cognition and culture.
Philosophy, French--20th century.
France--Civilization--20th century.
France--Intellectual life--20th century.