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The Invention of the Visible: The Image in Light of the Arts
Patrick Vauday
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We live in a mediatized society, a society one could call a society of images. Working at the intersection of aesthetics and politics, Patrick Vauday challenges the dominant assumptions of this society and its disposition towards images. This challenge does not advocate repudiatingimages altogether, but rather entreats us to see them in a different light. This new way of thinking of images affords a glimpse into what images do and produce, rather than viewing them as copies or mere representations. Images are dynamic agents that are active in our world rather than simply empty reflections of it. ... Read more
We live in a mediatized society, a society one could call a society of images. Working at the intersection of aesthetics and politics, Patrick Vauday challenges the dominant assumptions of this society and its disposition towards images. This challenge does not advocate repudiatingimages altogether, but rather entreats us to see them in a different light. This new way of thinking of images affords a glimpse into what images do and produce, rather than viewing them as copies or mere representations. Images are dynamic agents that are active in our world rather than simply empty reflections of it. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield International
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Reinventing Critical Theory
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786600493
SKU
V9781786600493
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About Patrick Vauday
Patrick Vauday is Professor of Philosophy at the Universite Paris 8. He is the author of several academic books in French. Jared Bly is a Graduate Student in Philosophy at Villanova University.
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Vauday (philosophy, Universite Paris 8, France) has two objectives for the present work: first, to highlight postwar French thought in aesthetics and, second, to examine its connection with contemporary theories of art related to the aesthetic status of images. Images are the primary focus-not images as mere representations or expressions but images as a shaping pragmatic, generating force. Vauday begins ... Read more