Images have always stirred ambivalent reactions. Yet whether
eliciting fascinated gazes or iconoclastic repulsion from their
beholders, they have hardly ever been seen as true sources of
knowledge. They were long viewed as mere appearances, placeholders
for the things themselves or deceptive illusions. Today, the
traditional critique of the spectacle has given way to an
unconditional embrace of the visual. However, we still lack a
persuasive theoretical account of how images work. Emmanuel Alloa
retraces the history of Western attitudes toward the visual to
propose a major rethinking of images as irreplaceable agents of our
everyday engagement with the world. He examines how ideas of images
and their powers have been constructed in Western humanities, art
theory, and philosophy, developing a novel genealogy of both visual
studies and the concept of the medium. Alloa reconstructs the
earliest Western media theory-Aristotle's concept of the diaphanous
milieu of vision-and the significance of its subsequent erasure in
the history of science. Ultimately, he argues for a historically
informed phenomenology of images and visual media that explains why
images are not simply referential depictions, windows onto the
world. Instead, images constantly reactivate the power of
appearing. As media of visualization, they allow things to appear
that could not be visible except in and through these very material
devices.
General
| Imprint: |
Columbia University Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts |
| Release date: |
October 2021 |
| First published: |
2021 |
| Authors: |
Emmanuel Alloa
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| Translators: |
Nils Schott
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| Foreword by: |
Daniel Herwitz
(Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor)
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| Afterword by: |
Andrew Benjamin
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| Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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| Pages: |
408 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-231-18793-0 |
| Languages: |
English
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| Subtitles: |
German
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| Categories: |
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Humanities >
Philosophy >
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| LSN: |
0-231-18793-9 |
| Barcode: |
9780231187930 |
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