Vision’s Invisibles: Philosophical Explorations

Veronique M. Foti9780791457337, 0-7914-5733-8, 0-7914-5734-6

”Examines the construction of vision in the works of Heraclitus, Plato, Descartes, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Nancy, and Derrida.”

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Table of contents :
Vision’s Invisibles……Page 4
Contents……Page 8
Acknowledgments……Page 10
Prospect……Page 12
Part I: Greek Philosophy……Page 22
1. Glimpsing Alterity and Differentiation: Vision and the Heraclitean Logos……Page 24
2. Beauty, Eros, and Blindness in the Platonic Education of Vision……Page 36
Part II: The Legacy of Descartes……Page 50
3. Mechanism, Reasoning, and the Institution of Nature: Questioning Descartes’s Reconstruction of Vision……Page 52
4. The Specularity of Representation: Foucault, Velázquez, Descartes……Page 64
Part III: Post-Phenomenological Perspectives……Page 78
5. The Gravity and (In)visibility of Flesh: Merleau-Ponty, Nancy, Derrida……Page 80
6. Imaging Invisibles: Heidegger’s Meditation……Page 92
Retrospect……Page 110
PROSPECT……Page 116
CHAPTER 1……Page 117
CHAPTER 2……Page 119
CHAPTER 3……Page 121
CHAPTER 4……Page 123
CHAPTER 5……Page 125
CHAPTER 6……Page 127
RETROSPECT……Page 131
Selected Bibliography……Page 132
H……Page 142
Z……Page 143
M……Page 144
W……Page 145