Downcast Eyes

Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought

-Editor's Recommendation-
★ The first history of French thought centered on "vision," a comprehensive examination of the rise and fall of French "visual-centrism"☆ An interdisciplinary study with great academic imagination, an encyclopedic collection of "visual" discourse★ Understand the history of "visual-centrism" and gain insight into the 21st century filled with images and surveillance☆ Recommended by author Martin Jay with a preface
-Introduction-
The reverence for vision is deeply ingrained in Western culture—from Plato and Descartes to the Enlightenment, vision has often been associated with clarity, order, and rationality. With the advent of photography and film, vision has ascended to become the lord of the modern sensory realm. However, modern French thinkers—Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Lacan, Barthes, Derrida—have also questioned the hegemony of vision in various ways: from Impressionism to Surrealism, from phenomenology to psychoanalysis, from structuralism to postmodern analysis...
This book shows readers the history of how "visual centrism" was shaken. With his outstanding ability to integrate materials, the author integrates dazzling criticism into the grand topic of intellectual history, presenting French intellectual history from a brand new perspective.
-Media Recommendation-
A valuable book... Jay's authoritative history is essential reading for anyone seeking to focus on 20th-century intellectual life.
——Artforum
Jay's exploration of visual attitudes in 20th-century France results in an impressive and rigorous work... Jay draws much of his material from the classics, which he synthesizes persuasively.
—The Times Literary Supplement
The scholarship presented in this book is dazzling... Its publication is an intellectual event of immense importance.
--"October"
Anyone who wants to teach a course on 20th-century thought should own this book.
——Modern History Magazine
In its coolly observed tone, this astonishing book is a sentimental journey through the history of ideas.
——Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

2021-09-01

拜德雅 | 重庆大学出版社

Baideya

576

9787568926980