Emmanuel Alloa

Broschiertes Buch

Looking Through Images

A Phenomenology of Visual Media

Übersetzer: Schott, Nils

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 234mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9780231187930
• ISBN-10: 0231187939
• Artikelnr.: 60719379