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Downcast eyes : the denigration of vision in twentieth-century French thought / Martin Jay.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, c1993.Description: xi,632pISBN:
  • 9780520081543 :
  • 0520081544
  • 9780520081543
  • 0520088859
  • 9780520088856
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 194
Online resources:
Contents:
The noblest of the senses : vision from Plato to Descartes -- Dialectic of enlightenment -- The crisis of the ancien scopic régime : from the impressionists to Bergson -- The disenchantment of the eye : Bataille and the surrealists -- Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and the search for a new ontology of sight -- Lacan, Althusser, and the specular subject of ideology -- From the empire of the gaze to the society of the spectacle : Foucault and Debord -- The camera as memento mori : Barthes, Metz, and the cahiers du cinéma -- "Phallogocularcentrism" : Derrida and Irigaray -- The ethics of blindness and the postmodern sublime : Levinas and Lyotard.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
General Lending Wexford Campus Library Store - Ask Library Staff 194 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 62399
General Lending Wexford Campus Library Store - Ask Library Staff 194 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 55478

CW027

"A Centennial book"--P. [ii].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The noblest of the senses : vision from Plato to Descartes -- Dialectic of enlightenment -- The crisis of the ancien scopic régime : from the impressionists to Bergson -- The disenchantment of the eye : Bataille and the surrealists -- Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and the search for a new ontology of sight -- Lacan, Althusser, and the specular subject of ideology -- From the empire of the gaze to the society of the spectacle : Foucault and Debord -- The camera as memento mori : Barthes, Metz, and the cahiers du cinéma -- "Phallogocularcentrism" : Derrida and Irigaray -- The ethics of blindness and the postmodern sublime : Levinas and Lyotard.

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