The philosophy of perception
Subtitle: phenomenology and image theory
By: Lambert Wiesing ; translated by Nancy Ann Roth
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781780937595; 9781780937083; 9781780937519
Subjects: Perception (Philosophy); Phenomenology; PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology
Work titles: Mich der Wahrnehmung
Description: "Lambert Wiesing's The Philosophy of Perception challenges current theories of perception. Instead of attempting to understand how a subject perceives the world, Wiesing starts by taking perception to be real. He then asks what this reality means for a subject. In his original approach, the question of how human perception is possible is displaced by questions about what perception obliges us to be and do. He argues that perception requires us to be embodied, to be visible, and to continually participate in the public and physical world we perceive. Only in looking at images, he proposes, can we achieve something like a break in participation, a temporary respite from this, one of perception's relentless demands. Wiesing's methods chart a markedly new path in contemporary perception theory. In addition to identifying common ground among diverse philosophical positions, he identifies how his own, phenomenological approach differs from those of many other philosophers, past and present. As part of the argument, he provides a succinct but comprehensive survey of the philosophy of images His original critical exposition presents scholars of phenomenology, perception and aesthetics with a new, important understanding of the old phenomenon, the human being in the world"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-159) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Preface1. Philosophical Myths and Models 2. Phenomenology: Philosophy without a Model 3. The Me of Perception 4. The Pause in Participation Index.