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Page vii
... century as the cradle of a dominant ' Carte- sian perspectivalism ' which " separates subject and object , renders the first transcendental and the second inert , and so subtends metaphysi- cal thought , empirical science , and ...
... century as the cradle of a dominant ' Carte- sian perspectivalism ' which " separates subject and object , renders the first transcendental and the second inert , and so subtends metaphysi- cal thought , empirical science , and ...
Page xx
... century . I will thus have little to say about influential twentieth - century philosophical theories such as Merleau - Ponty's phenomenology of perception , Sartre's paranoid account of becoming the object of another's gaze ...
... century . I will thus have little to say about influential twentieth - century philosophical theories such as Merleau - Ponty's phenomenology of perception , Sartre's paranoid account of becoming the object of another's gaze ...
Page 491
... century visuality I have discussed - technological development and the dismantling of the dichotomous Cartesian heritage actually seem to converge . For similar problems have also been raised by the collapse of classical physics on the ...
... century visuality I have discussed - technological development and the dismantling of the dichotomous Cartesian heritage actually seem to converge . For similar problems have also been raised by the collapse of classical physics on the ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | iii |
THE DARK LANTERN | 45 |
THE REFORMED EYE | 107 |
Copyright | |
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