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The Madness of Vision: On Baroque Aesthetics
Christine Buci-Glucksmann
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Paperback. Integrating the work of Merleau-Ponty with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Renaissance studies in optics, and twentieth-century mathematics, the author asserts the materiality of the body and world in her aesthetic theory. Translator(s): Baker, Dorothy Z. Series: Series in Continental Thought. Num Pages: 184 pages, 9 photographs. BIC Classification: ACQB; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 161 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
Christine Buci-Glucksmann’s The Madness of Vision is one of the most influential studies in phenomenological aesthetics of the baroque. Integrating the work of Merleau-Ponty with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Renaissance studies in optics, and twentieth-century mathematics, the author asserts the materiality of the body and world in her aesthetic theory. All vision is embodied vision, with the body and the emotions continually at play on the visual field. Thus vision, once considered a clear, uniform, and totalizing way of understanding the material world, actually dazzles and distorts the perception of reality.
In each of the nine essays that form The Madness ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Series in Continental Thought
Condition
New
Weight
322g
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Athens, United States
ISBN
9780821420935
SKU
V9780821420935
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About Christine Buci-Glucksmann
Christine Buci-Glucksmann is a philosopher, professor emerita of the University of Paris VIII, and the author of many books in the fields of political philosophy, aesthetics, contemporary art, the baroque, ornament, Asian art, and virtual art. Her most recent works include Esthétique de l’éphémère (2003), Au-delà de la mélancholie (2005), Philosophie de l’ornement: D’Orient en Occident (2008), and Une femme ... Read more
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