The philosopher's gaze
Subtitle: modernity in the shadows of enlightenment
By: David Michael Levin.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 493
Subjects: Philosophy, Modern; Appearance (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-490) and index.
Table of contents: title: Outside the text: thoughts on a painting by Chardin; title: Blindness, violence, compassion?; title: Minima moralia; title: The discursive construction of the philosophical gaze; title: The importance of phenomenology; title: Descartes's window; title: Husserl's transcendental gaze: controlling unruly metaphors; title: The glasses on our nose: Wittgenstein's optics and the illusions of philosophy; title: Gestalt Gestell Geviert: the way of the lighting; title: The field of vision: intersections of the visible and the invisible in Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty; title: Outside the subject: Merleau-Ponty's chiasmic vision; title: The invisible face of humanity: Levinas on the justice of the gaze; title: Justice in the seer's eyes: Benjamin and Heidegger on a vision out of time and memory; title: Shadows: reflections on the enlightenment and modernity; title: Where the beauty of truth lies.