Sites of vision : the discursive construction of sight in the history of philosophy

Abstract

From acoustics to optics - the rise of the metaphysical and demise of the melodic in Aristotle's Poetics, P. Christopher Smith Aristotle on specular regimes - the theatre of philosophical discourse, James I. Porter discourses of vision in 17th-century metaphysics, Catherine Wilson how to write the history of vision - understanding the relationship between Berkeley and Descartes, Margaret Atherton embodying the eye of Humanism - Giambattista Vico and the eye of Ingenium, Sandra Rudnick Luft for now we see through a glass darkly - the systematics of Hegel's visual imagery, John Russon sighting the spirit - the rhetorical visions of Geist in Hegel's Encyclopedia, John H. Smith perspectives and horizons - Husserl on seeing the truth, Mary C. Rawlinson ducks and rabbits - visuality in Wittgenstein, William James Earle Dewey's critique of democratic visual culture and its political implications, Yaron Ezrahi materialist mutations of the Bilderverbot, Rebecca Comay Hannah Arendt - the activity of the spectator, Peg Birmingham keeping Foucault and Derrida in sight - panopticism and the politics of subversion, David Michael Levin difference and the ruin of representation in Gilles Deleuze, Dorothea Olkowski.

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