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"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Civilization, Cognition and culture, French Philosophy, Intellectual life, Philosophy, French, Vision, Cognició i cultura, Visió, Filosofia francesa, Vida intel·lectual, Etnopsicologia, France, civilization, France, intellectual life, Ocular Vision, Philosophy, Culture, Cognition et culture, Philosophie française, Civilisation, Vie intellectuelle, History & Surveys, Modern, Political, Philosophie, Sehen, Visuele waarneming, Filosofische aspecten, Filosofia contemporanea, Esthétique, Philosophie et littérature, Phénoménologie et littérature, Perception visuellePlaces
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Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought (Centennial Book)
September 2, 1994, University of California Press
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Downcast Eyes: the Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought
1993, University of California Press
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A Centennial book"--P. [ii].
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