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Panorama Philosophies
of the Visible
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Description
The new electronic age has seen a radical transition
from book to screen, a development which has obscured the fact that it is not
what we see which matters but how we see what we see. We live in a time when
the visible needs to be retheorised.
Panorama presents a broad analysis of philosophies of the visible in art and
culture, particularly in painting, film, photography, and literature. The work
of key philosophers--Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Levinas, Barthes, Blanchot,
Foucault, Bataille, Derrida, Lyotard and Deleuze--is examined in the context
of visibility, expressivity, the representational and the postmodern.
Contributors: Zsuzsa Baross, Robert Burch, Alessandro Carrera, Dana Hollander,
Lynne Huffer, Volker Kaiser, Reginald Lilly, Robert S. Leventhal, Janet Lungstrum,
Ladelle McWhorter, Ludwig Nagl, Anne Tomiche, James R. Watson, Lisa Zucker
Table of Contents
Introduction
Between
the Visible and the Expressive: And In-visible Exchange, Wilhelm S. Wurzer
Part One: Postmodern Visions
1. Rephrasing the Visible and the Expressive: Lyotard's "Defense of the
Eye" from Figure to Inarticulare Phrase, Anne Tomiche, University of Grenoble
2. Visibility, "Bild" and "Einbildungskraft", Derrida, Barthes,
Levinas, Ludwig Nagl, University of Vienna
3. Puncturing Genres: Barthes and Derrida on the Limits of Representation, Dana
Hollander, Michigan State University
Part Two: Beyond
Representational Thinking
Introduction .... While Illustrating ...
4. Blanchot's Gaze and Orpheus' Singing: Seeing and Listening in Poetic Inspiration,
Alessandro Carrera, Univesity of Texas
5. Foucault and the Disappearance of the Visible Subject, Reginald Lilly, Skidmore
College
Part Three: Expressions and the Limits of Philosophy
Introduction ... Desire, Displacement, and Laughter ...
6. Frames of Visibility: Si(gh)ting the Monstrous, Robert Burch, University
of Alberta.
7. Francis Bacon, Logique de la sensation: The Philosopher's Painter, Zsuzsa
Baross, Trent University, Canada
8. Bataille's Erotic Displacement of Vision: Attempts at a Feminist Reading,
Ladelle McWhorter, University of Richmond
9. Luce Irigaray's Specular Mother: Lips in the Mirror, Lynne Huffer, Rice University
Part Four: Filming
the (In)visible
Introduction ... In Images Ending ...
10. Expressionist Towers of Babel in Weimar Film and Architecture, Janet
Lungstrum, University of Colorado
11. Rewiring the Oedipal Scene: Image and Discursivity in Wim Wender's Journey
"Until the End of the World", Volker Kaiser & Robert S. Leventhal, University of
Virginia
Part Five: Critiques
of Contemporary Image Culture
Introduction ... Beyond a Paradigm ...
12. Imagism and the Ends of Vision: Pound and Salomon, Lisa Zucker
13. Mediums of Freedom in Photographic Frames: Some Exposuires of Bound Transcendence,
James R. Watson, Loyola University
Epilogue:
The Paradox of Philosophy's Gaze, before & after Sept. 11, Wilhelm S. Wurzer
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Editors
Index
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