Emmanuel Alloa retraces the history of Western attitudes toward the visual to propose a major rethinking of images as irreplaceable agents of our everyday engagement with the world. He examines how ideas of images and their powers have been constructed in Western humanities, art theory, and philosophy.
Emmanuel Alloa retraces the history of Western attitudes toward the visual to propose a major rethinking of images as irreplaceable agents of our everyday engagement with the world. He examines how ideas of images and their powers have been constructed in Western humanities, art theory, and philosophy.
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Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
Emmanuel Alloa is professor of philosophy at the University of Fribourg, where he holds the Chair for Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art. His books in English include Resistance of the Sensible World: An Introduction to Merleau-Ponty (2017), as well as a number of coedited volumes, including, most recently, Dynamis of the Image: Moving Images in a Global World (2020). He currently serves as president of the German Society of Aesthetics. Nils F. Schott is a lecturer in the Euro-American Program of the Collège universitaire de Sciences Po, Reims, and coeditor of, among other books, Love and Forgiveness for a More Just World (Columbia, 2015). Andrew Benjamin is distinguished professor of architectural theory at the University of Technology, Sydney, and emeritus professor of philosophy at Monash University Melbourne. His recent books include Art's Philosophical Work (2015), Towards a Relational Ontology: Philosophy's Other Possibility (2015), and Virtue in Being: Towards an Ethics of the Unconditioned (2017).
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Preface to the English Edition Introduction 1. Between Thing and Sign: The Hubris of the Image 2. Aristotle's Foundation of a Media Theory of Appearing 3. Forgetting Media: Traces of the Diaphanous from Themistius to Berkeley 4. A Phenomenology of Images 5. Media Phenomenology Conclusion: Seeing Through Images-for an Alternative Theory of Media Afterword: Seeing Not Riddling, by Andrew Benjamin Notes Bibliography Index
Preface to the English Edition Introduction 1. Between Thing and Sign: The Hubris of the Image 2. Aristotle's Foundation of a Media Theory of Appearing 3. Forgetting Media: Traces of the Diaphanous from Themistius to Berkeley 4. A Phenomenology of Images 5. Media Phenomenology Conclusion: Seeing Through Images-for an Alternative Theory of Media Afterword: Seeing Not Riddling, by Andrew Benjamin Notes Bibliography Index
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