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The philosopher's gaze : modernity in the shadows of enlightenment

Title
The philosopher's gaze : modernity in the shadows of enlightenment / David Michael Levin.
Author
Kleinberg-Levin, David Michael, 1939-
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999.

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Description
ix, 493 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  • "David Michael Levin's ongoing exploration of the moral character and enlightenment-potential of vision takes a new direction in The Philosopher's Gaze. Levin examines texts by Descartes, Husserl, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas, 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."--Jacket.
  • "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 recognition, traces of another way of looking and seeing - the prospects for a radically different lifeworld."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Philosophy, Modern
  • Appearance (Philosophy)
  • PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern
  • PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > General
  • Philosophy, Modern
  • Philosophie
  • Sehen
  • Waarneming
  • Wereld
  • Filosofen
  • Vision
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-490) and index.
Contents
I. Foreshadowings -- Outside the Text: Thoughts on a Painting by Chardin -- Blindness, Violence, Compassion? -- Minima Moralia -- II. Introduction -- The Discursive Construction of the Philosophical Gaze -- The Importance of Phenomenology -- III. The Philosophers. 1. Descartes's Window. 2. Husserl's Transcendental Gaze: Controlling Unruly Metaphors. 3. The Glasses on Our Nose: Wittgenstein's Optics and the Illusions of Philosophy. 4. Gestalt Gestell Geviert: The Way of the Lighting. 5. The Field of Vision: Intersections of the Visible and the Invisible in Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty. 6. Outside the Subject: Merleau-Ponty's Chiasmic Vision. 7. The Invisible Face of Humanity: Levinas on the Justice of the Gaze.
ISBN
  • 0520217802
  • 9780520217805
LCCN
98043812
OCLC
  • ocm40359316
  • 40359316
  • SCSB-9477985
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library