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Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision... by Martin Jay
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780520081543
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520081544
ISBN-13
9780520081543
eBay Product ID (ePID)
888467
Product Key Features
Book Title
Downcast Eyes : the Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought
Number of Pages
648 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Europe / France, History & Surveys / Modern, Ophthalmology, Political
Publication Year
1993
Genre
Philosophy, History, Medical
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.7 in
Item Weight
33.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
93-000347
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
194
Synopsis
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 of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged its 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 discourse surrounding vision 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 its role in the French Enlightenment before turning to its status in the culture of modernity. From consideration of French Impressionism to analysis of Georges Bataille and the Surrealists, Roland Barthes's writings on photography, and the film theory of Christian Metz, Jay provides lucid and fair-minded accounts 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.
LC Classification Number
B2424.P45J39 1993
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