Jay, Martin, 1944-
Downcast eyes : the denigration of vision in twentieth-century French thought / Martin Jay.
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1993.
xi, 632 pages ; 24 cm
A centennial book
Long considered "the noblest of the senses," vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged vision's allegedly superior capacity to provide access to the world. They have also criticized its supposed complicity with political and social oppression through the promulgation of spectacle and surveillance. Martin Jay turns to this antiocularcentric discourse and explores its often contradictory implications in the work of such influential figures as Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, Guy Debord, Luce Irigaray, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida. Jay begins with a discussion of the theory of vision from Plato to Descartes, then considers vision's role in the French Enlightenment before turning to its status in the culture of modernity. From French Impressionism to Georges Bataille and the Surrealists, Roland Barthes's writings on photography, and the film theory of Christian Metz, Jay provides lucid and fair-minded analyses of thinkers and ideas widely known for their difficulty. His book examines the myriad links between the interrogation of vision and the pervasive antihumanist, antimodernist, and counter-enlightenment tenor of much recent French thought. Refusing, however, to defend the dominant visual order, he calls instead for a plurality of "scopic regimes." Certain to generate controversy and discussion throughout the humanities and social sciences, Downcast Eyes will consolidate Jay's reputation as one of today's premier cultural and intellectual historians.--(Source of description unspecified.)
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Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962.
Foucault, Michel.
Debord, Guy.
Vision.
Cognition and culture.
Philosophy, French 20th century.
Philosophy.
Visual perception.
Cognition.
Metaphor.
Culture.
History, 20th Century
Visual Perception
Vision, Ocular
Cognition et culture.
Philosophie française 20e siècle.
Médecine Histoire 20e siècle.
Philosophie.
Perception visuelle.
Métaphore.
sight (sense)
philosophy.
visual perception.
cognition.
metaphor.
culture note.
culture (concept)
Civilization
Intellectual life
Philosophy, French
Sehen
Visuele waarneming.
Filosofische aspecten.
Filosofia contemporanea.
Esthétique France 20e siècle.
Philosophie et littérature.
Phénoménologie et littérature.
Perception visuelle Philosophie.
Philosophie France 20e siècle.
France Civilization 20th century.
France Intellectual life 20th century.
France
France Civilisation 20e siècle.
France Vie intellectuelle 20e siècle.
Frankreich
Centennial book.
Localisation: Bibliothèque main 286863
Cote: BIB 227393
Statut: Disponible
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