Alloa Looking Through Images

A Phenomenology of Visual Media
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-54757-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alloa, Emmanuel

Weitere Mitwirkende

Herwitz, Daniel

Schott, Nils

Benjamin, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).

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.cHis recent books include Towards a Relational Ontology: Philosophy’s Other Possibility (2015) and Art’s Philosophical Work (2015).