TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jay,Martin
TI  - Downcast eyes: the denigration of vision in twentieth-century French thought 
SN  - 9780520088856 (pbk.) :
AV  - B2424.P45 J39 1993
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Vision
KW  - Cognition and culture
KW  - Philosophy, French
KW  - 20th century
KW  - France
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Intellectual life
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The noblest of the senses : vision from Plato to Descartes -- Dialectic of enlightenment -- The crisis of the ancien scopic reǵime : from the impressionists to Bergson -- The disenchantment of the eye : Bataille and the surrealists -- Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and the search for a new ontology of sight -- Lacan, Althusser, and the specular subject of ideology -- From the empire of the gaze to the society of the spectacle : Foucault and Debord -- The camera as memento mori : Barthes, Metz, and the cahiers du cineḿa -- "Phallogocularcentrism" : Derrida and Irigaray -- The ethics of blindness and the postmodern sublime : Levinas and Lyotard
ER  -