TY  - GEN
T1  - Downcast eyes : the denigration of vision in twentieth-century French thought
T2  - Centennial book.
A1  - Jay, Martin, 1944-
LA  - English
PP  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 1993
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1322059401
AB  - Long 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, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged vision's 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 antiocularcentric discourse 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 vision's role in the French Enlightenment before turning to its status in the culture of modernity. From French Impressionism to Georges Bataille and the Surrealists, Roland Barthes's writings on photography, and the film theory of Christian Metz, Jay provides lucid and fair-minded analyses 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
OP  - 632
NO  - "A Centennial book"--P. [ii].
CN  - B2424.P45
SN  - 9780520915381
SN  - 0520915380
SN  - 0585200467
SN  - 9780585200460
SN  - 0520081544 (alk. paper)
SN  - 9780520088856
SN  - 9780520081543
SN  - 0520088859
KW  - Vision.
KW  - Cognition and culture.
KW  - Philosophy, French : 20th century.
KW  - France : Civilization : 20th century.
KW  - France : Intellectual life : 20th century.
KW  - Philosophy.
KW  - Culture.
KW  - Vision, Ocular
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Culture
KW  - Cognition et culture.
KW  - Philosophie française : 20e siècle.
KW  - France : Civilisation : 20e siècle.
KW  - France : Vie intellectuelle : 20e siècle.
KW  - Philosophie.
KW  - sight (sense)
KW  - philosophy.
KW  - culture note.
KW  - culture (concept)
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : History & Surveys : Modern.
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : Political.
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Cognition and culture
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Philosophy, French
KW  - Vision
KW  - France
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Sehen
KW  - Frankreich
KW  - Visuele waarneming.
KW  - Filosofische aspecten.
KW  - Frankrijk.
KW  - Filosofia contemporanea.
KW  - Esthétique : France : 20e siècle.
KW  - Philosophie et littérature.
KW  - Phénoménologie et littérature.
KW  - Perception visuelle : Philosophie.
KW  - Philosophie : France : 20e siècle.
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Geschichte 1900-1990.
ER  -