Archaeologies of Vision
Subtitle: Foucault and Nietzsche on Seeing and Saying
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: May 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780226750460
Subjects: Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Theory of art; Art; Philosophy; Epistemology; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm; Philosophy / Epistemology; General; 1844-1900; 1926-1984; Foucault, Michel; Foucault, Michel,; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,; Vision
First sentence: Is there evidence of something new in the economy of the senses, in the distribution of thinking and seeing, something that would justify talk of a "visual" or "pictorial turn" in culture and so in the studies that attempt to make sense of it?
Description: While many acknowledge that Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault have redefined our notions of time and history, few recognize the crucial role that 'the infinite relation' between seeing and saying plays in their work. Shapiro reveals the full extent of Nietzsche and Foucault's concern with the visual.
Table of contents: title: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/uchi051/2002014836.html, Table of contents