Sites of vision
Subtitle: the discursive construction of sight in the history of philosophy
By: edited by David Michael Levin
Contributors: NetLibrary, Inc
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 498
Subjects: Philosophy; Vision; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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