Book ID: CBB000071919

Sites of vision: The discursive construction of sight in the history of philosophy (1997)

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Levin, David Michael (Editor)


MIT Press


Publication Date: 1997
Physical Details: viii + 498 pp.; notes; index

Description Contents: Smith, P. Christopher: From acoustics to optics: The rise of the metaphysical and demise of the melodic in Aristotle's Poetics. Porter, James I.: Aristotle on specular regimes: The theater of philosophical discourse. Wilson, Catherine: Discourses of vision in 17th-century metaphysics. Atherton, Margaret: How to write the history of vision: Understanding the relationship between Berkeley and Descartes. Luft, Sandra Rudnick: Embodying the eye of humanism: Giambattista Vico and the eye of ingenium. Russon, John: “For now we see through a glass darkly”: The systematics of Hegel's visual imagery. Smith, John H.: Sighting the spirit: The rhetorical visions of Geist in Hegel's Encyclopedia. Rawlinson, Mary C.: Perspectives and horizons: Husserl on seeing the truth. Earle, William James: Ducks and rabbits: Visuality in Wittgenstein. Ezrahi, Yaron: Dewey's critique of democratic visual culture and its political implications. Comay, Rebecca: Materialist mutations of the Bilderverbot. Birmingham, Peg: Hannah Arendt: The activity of the spectator. Levin, David Michael: Keeping Foucault and Derrrida in sight: Panopticism and the politics of subversion. Olkowski, Dorothea: Difference and the ruin of representation in Gilles Deleuze.


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Authors & Contributors
Kremer, Richard L.
Golnoush Sadat Mahmoudi Nezhad
Babak Daneshfard
Wolf-Devine, Celia
Wade, Nicholas J.
Theisen, Wilfred R.
Journals
Rivista Critica di Storia della Filosofia
Mediaeval Studies
科学史研究 Kagakusi Kenkyu (History of Science)
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Journal of Medical Biography
Publishers
York University (Canada)
Southern Illinois University Press for the Journal of the History of Philosophy
MIT Press
International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization
Hanser
Boringhieri
Concepts
Ophthalmology
Vision
Optometry
Vision disorders
People
Ptolemy
Ibn al-Haytham, Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan
Euclid
Berkeley, George
Molyneux, William
Mach, Ernst
Time Periods
Medieval
18th century
19th century
17th century
Renaissance
11th century
Places
France
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