Sites of Vision: The Discursive Construction of Sight in the History of Philosophy - Hardcover

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Explores both how the rhetoric of philosophy has formed the nature of vision, and how the rhetoric of vision has shaped philosophical thought. The 14 essays focus on some of the crucial moments in the process, including the rise of the metaphysical and demise of the melodic in Aristotle, the relationship between Berkeley and Descartes, visuality in Wittgenstein, and panopticism and the politics of subversion in Foucault and Derrida. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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