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082			_a194 _bJAY
100			_a Jay, Martin
245			_aDowncast eyes : the denigration of vision in twentieth-century French thought
260			_bUniversity of California Press, _c1994 _aBerkerley :
300			_axi, 632 p. ; _c23 cm
365			_b38.95 _cUSD _d85.40
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aLong considered "the noblest of the senses," vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged its allegedly superior capacity to provide access to the world. They have also criticized its supposed complicity with political and social oppression through the promulgation of spectacle and surveillance. Martin Jay turns to this discourse surrounding vision and explores its often contradictory implications in the work of such influential figures as Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, Guy Debord, Luce Irigaray, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida. Jay begins with a discussion of the theory of vision from Plato to Descartes, then considers its role in the French Enlightenment before turning to its status in the culture of modernity. From consideration of French Impressionism to analysis of Georges Bataille and the Surrealists, Roland Barthes's writings on photography, and the film theory of Christian Metz, Jay provides lucid and fair-minded accounts of thinkers and ideas widely known for their difficulty. His book examines the myriad links between the interrogation of vision and the pervasive antihumanist, antimodernist, and counter-enlightenment tenor of much recent French thought. Refusing, however, to defend the dominant visual order, he calls instead for a plurality of "scopic regimes." Certain to generate controversy and discussion throughout the humanities and social sciences, Downcast Eyes will consolidate Jay's reputation as one of today's premier cultural and intellectual historians.
650			_aAesthetics
650			_aBlindness
650			_aBody
650			_aCohiers du Cinema
650			_aCamera
650			_aDerrida, Jacques
650			_a Desire
650			_aFeminism
650			_aFilm theory
650			_aGaze
650			_aIdeology
650			_aLevinas
650			_aMarxism
650			_aPerspectivalist
650			_aMirror stage
650			_aPhenomenology
650			_aPostmodernism
650			_aPsychoanalysis
650			_aRolland Barthes
650			_aScotomization
650			_aSituationist International
650			_aSurrealism
650			_a Vision
650			_aVisual experience
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