TY - BOOK ID - 78343683 TI - Modernity and the hegemony of vision AU - Levin, David Michael, AU - Kleinberg-Levin, David Michael PY - 1993 SN - 0520912993 0585233845 9780520912991 9780585233840 0520079728 9780520079724 0520079736 9780520079731 PB - [Place of publication not identified] University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - Vision KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Philosophy KW - Eyesight KW - Seeing KW - Sight KW - Senses and sensation KW - Blindfolds KW - Eye KW - Physiological optics KW - Modern philosophy KW - Philosophy, Modern. KW - Vision. KW - History of philosophy KW - anno 1900-1999 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78343683 AB - This collection of original essays by preeminent interpreters of continental philosophy explores the question of whether Western thought and culture have been dominated by a vision-centered paradigm of knowledge, ethics, and power. It focuses on the character of vision in modern philosophy and on arguments for and against the view that contemporary life and thought are distinctively "ocularcentric." The authors examine these ideas in the context of the history of philosophy and consider the character of visual discourse in the writings of Plato, Descartes, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Benjamin, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Derrida, Foucault, Gadamer, Wittgenstein, and Habermas. With essays on television, the visual arts, and feminism, the book will interest readers in cultural studies, gender studies, and art history as well as philosophers. ER -