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1 online resource (ix, 493 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-490) and index. |
| Summary |
"David Michael Levin's ongoing exploration of the moral character and enlightenment-potential of vision takes a new direction in The Philosopher's Gaze. Levin examines texts by Descartes, Husserl, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas, using our culturally dominant mode of perception and the philosophical discourse it has generated as the site for his critical reflections on the moral culture in which we are living."--Jacket. |
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"In Levin's view, all these philosophers attempted to understand, one way or another, the distinctive pathologies of the modern age. But every one also attempted to envision - if only through the faintest of traces, traces of mutual recognition, traces of another way of looking and seeing - the prospects for a radically different lifeworld."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
Foreshadowings -- Outside the Text: Thoughts on a Painting by Chardin -- Blindness, Violence, Compassion? -- Minima Moralia -- Discursive Construction of the Philosophical Gaze -- Importance of Phenomenology -- Philosophers -- Descartes's Window -- Husserl's Transcendental Gaze: Controlling Unruly Metaphors -- Glasses on Our Nose: Wittgenstein's Optics and the Illusions of Philosophy -- Gestalt Gestell Geviert: The Way of the Lighting -- Field of Vision: Intersections of the Visible and the Invisible in Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty -- Outside the Subject: Merleau-Ponty's Chiasmic Vision -- Invisible Face of Humanity: Levinas on the Justice of the Gaze -- Justice in the Seer's Eyes: Benjamin and Heidegger on a Vision Out of Time and Memory -- Shadows: Reflections on the Enlightenment and Modernity -- Where the Beauty of Truth Lies. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Modern.
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Philosophy, Modern. |
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Appearance (Philosophy)
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Appearance (Philosophy) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kleinberg-Levin, David Michael, 1939- Philosopher's gaze. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1999 0520217802 (DLC) 98043812 (OCoLC)40359316 |
| ISBN |
9780520922563 (electronic book) |
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0520922565 (electronic book) |
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0585326096 (electronic book) |
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9780585326092 (electronic book) |
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0520217802 (alkaline paper) |
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9780520217805 (alkaline paper) |
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