
Downcast Eyes : The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought
by Martin Jay-
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments | |
Introduction | p. 1 |
The Noblest of the Senses: Vision from Plato to Descartes | p. 21 |
Dialectic of EnLIGHTenment | p. 83 |
The Crisis of the Ancien Scopic Regime: From the Impressionists to Bergson | p. 149 |
The Disenchantment of the Eye: Bataille and the Surrealists | p. 211 |
Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and the Search for a New Ontology of Sight | p. 263 |
Lacan, Althusser, and the Specular Subject of Ideology | p. 329 |
From the Empire of the Gaze to the Society of the Spectacle: Foucault and Debord | p. 381 |
The Camera as Memento Mori: Barthes, Metz, and the Cahiers du Cinema | p. 435 |
"Phallogocularcentrism": Derrida and Irigaray | p. 493 |
The Ethics of Blindness and the Postmodern Sublime: Levinas and Lyotard | p. 543 |
Conclusion | p. 587 |
Index | p. 595 |
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