Philosopher's Gaze Modernity in the Shadows of Enlightenment

Name: Philosopher's Gaze Modernity in the Shadows of Enlightenment
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ISBN: 9780520217805

ISBN-10: 0520217802

ISBN-13: 9780520217805

Edition: 1999

Authors: David Michael Levin

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David Michael Levin's ongoing exploration of the moral character and enlightenment-potential of vision takes a new direction inThe Philosopher's Gaze. Levin examines texts by Descartes, Husserl, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin, Merleau-Ponty, and Leacute;vinas, using our culturally dominant mode of perception and the philosophical discourse it has generated as the site for his critical reflections on the moral culture in which we are living. In Levin's view, all these philosophers attempted to understand, one way or another, the distinctive pathologies of the modern age. But every one also attempted to envision--if only through the faintest of traces, traces of mutual…

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List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/8/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 502
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 2.002



Acknowledgments



Foreshadowings


Outside the Text: Thoughts on a Painting by Chardin


Blindness, Violence, Compassion?


Minima Moralia



Introduction


The Discursive Construction of the Philosophical Gaze


The Importance of Phenomenology



The Philosophers



Descartes's Window



Husserl's Transcendental Gaze: Controlling Unruly Metaphors



The Glasses on Our Nose: Wittgenstein's Optics and the Illusions of Philosophy



Gestalt Gestell Geviert: The Way of the Lighting



The Field of Vision: Intersections of the Visible and the Invisible in Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty



Outside the Subject: Merleau-Ponty's Chiasmic Vision



The Invisible Face of Humanity: Levinas on the Justice of the Gaze



Justice in the Seer's Eyes: Benjamin and Heidegger on a Vision out of Time and Memory



Shadows: Reflections on the Enlightenment and Modernity



Where the Beauty of Truth Lies


Notes


Index of Names