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- Vision's Invisibles: Philosophical Explorations
- Book
- 2003
- Published by: State University of New York Press
summary
Although philosophy today has abandoned its former fascination with transcendent invisibles, it has left largely unexamined historical articulations of the divide between ‘the visible’ and ‘the invisible.’ Vision’s Invisibles argues that such a self-examination is necessary for the sensitization of philosophical sight, as well as for engagements with visuality in other domains. To this end, it investigates a range of challenging understandings of visuality in its relation to invisibles, as articulated in the texts of key historical thinkers—Heraclitus, Plato, and Descartes—and of twentieth-century philosophers, including Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, Nancy, Derrida, and Heidegger.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- Retrospect
- pp. 99-104
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 121-130
- Index of Persons
- pp. 131-132
- Index of Topics
- pp. 133-134
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791486801
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
56209076
Pages
144
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No