The Resource Downcast eyes : the denigration of vision in twentieth-century French thought, Martin Jay
Downcast eyes : the denigration of vision in twentieth-century French thought, Martin Jay
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 632 p.
- Note
- "A Centennial book" -- P. [ii]
- Contents
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- The noblest of the senses : vision from Plato to Descartes
- Dialectic of enlightenment
- The crisis of the ancien scopic régime : from the impressionists to Bergson
- The disenchantment of the eye : Bataille and the surrealists
- Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and the search for a new ontology of sight
- Lacan, Althusser, and the specular subject of ideology
- From the empire of the gaze to the society of the spectacle : Foucault and Debord
- The camera as memento mori : Barthes, Metz, and the cahiers du cinéma
- "Phallogocularcentrism" : Derrida and Irigaray
- The ethics of blindness and the postmodern sublime : Levinas and Lyotard
- Isbn
- 9780520088856
- Label
- Downcast eyes : the denigration of vision in twentieth-century French thought
- Title
- Downcast eyes
- Title remainder
- the denigration of vision in twentieth-century French thought
- Statement of responsibility
- Martin Jay
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1944-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Jay, Martin
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Vision
- Cognition and culture
- Philosophy, French
- France
- France
- France
- France
- Label
- Downcast eyes : the denigration of vision in twentieth-century French thought, Martin Jay
- Note
- "A Centennial book" -- P. [ii]
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
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- Contents
- The noblest of the senses : vision from Plato to Descartes -- Dialectic of enlightenment -- The crisis of the ancien scopic régime : from the impressionists to Bergson -- The disenchantment of the eye : Bataille and the surrealists -- Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and the search for a new ontology of sight -- Lacan, Althusser, and the specular subject of ideology -- From the empire of the gaze to the society of the spectacle : Foucault and Debord -- The camera as memento mori : Barthes, Metz, and the cahiers du cinéma -- "Phallogocularcentrism" : Derrida and Irigaray -- The ethics of blindness and the postmodern sublime : Levinas and Lyotard
- Control code
- ocm27728656
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xi, 632 p.
- Isbn
- 9780520088856
- Lccn
- 93000347
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- Downcast eyes : the denigration of vision in twentieth-century French thought, Martin Jay
- Note
- "A Centennial book" -- P. [ii]
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The noblest of the senses : vision from Plato to Descartes -- Dialectic of enlightenment -- The crisis of the ancien scopic régime : from the impressionists to Bergson -- The disenchantment of the eye : Bataille and the surrealists -- Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and the search for a new ontology of sight -- Lacan, Althusser, and the specular subject of ideology -- From the empire of the gaze to the society of the spectacle : Foucault and Debord -- The camera as memento mori : Barthes, Metz, and the cahiers du cinéma -- "Phallogocularcentrism" : Derrida and Irigaray -- The ethics of blindness and the postmodern sublime : Levinas and Lyotard
- Control code
- ocm27728656
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xi, 632 p.
- Isbn
- 9780520088856
- Lccn
- 93000347
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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