Seeing as Practice - Philosophical Investigations into the Relation Between Sight and Insight
von: Eva Schuermann
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019
ISBN: 9783030145071
Sprache: Englisch
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Seeing as Practice - Philosophical Investigations into the Relation Between Sight and Insight
| Contents | 6 | ||
| Preface to the translated edition 2018 | 10 | ||
| List of Figures | 12 | ||
| 1 Introduction: Why Seeing is a Practice | 13 | ||
| 1 Two Cases of Perceptual World Disclosure | 15 | ||
| 2 The Performativity of Speech and Sight | 19 | ||
| 3 The Double Sense of the Sense of Sight | 22 | ||
| 4 The Iconicity of Visual Perception | 23 | ||
| 5 Ethics and Aesthetics | 25 | ||
| References | 28 | ||
| 2 Why Seeing is a Problem | 29 | ||
| 1 Oculocentrism and Its Critics | 30 | ||
| 1.1 Epistemology and Hermeneutics | 32 | ||
| 1.2 The Idea of a Visual Deliverance | 33 | ||
| 1.3 Aporias of Consciousness | 35 | ||
| 1.4 Revenants from the History of Metaphysics | 36 | ||
| 1.5 The Necessity of Mediation | 37 | ||
| 1.6 Problems of Reference | 38 | ||
| 1.7 Knowing, Believing, Concluding | 41 | ||
| 1.8 Seeing Something, Seeing That, Seeing How | 43 | ||
| 1.9 Conclusions | 45 | ||
| 2 Other Approaches | 46 | ||
| 2.1 Symbol Theory | 47 | ||
| 2.2 Interpretation Theories | 48 | ||
| 2.3 Narrative Theories | 50 | ||
| 2.4 Visual Culture Studies | 52 | ||
| References | 53 | ||
| 3 The Practice of Seeing | 57 | ||
| 1 Shared Visibility | 59 | ||
| 1.1 The Logic of Practice | 59 | ||
| 1.2 The Field of Practice | 60 | ||
| 2 Seeing as Doing | 61 | ||
| 2.1 Syntactic Seeing How | 63 | ||
| 2.2 Semantic Seeing As | 64 | ||
| 2.3 Pragmatic and Practical Seeing | 66 | ||
| 3 Worlds of Perception | 67 | ||
| 3.1 Seeing as Means and Seeing as End in Everyday Life | 71 | ||
| 3.2 Seeing as Means and Seeing as End in the Aesthetic | 72 | ||
| 3.3 Seeing as Means and Seeing as End in the Ethical | 73 | ||
| 4 Context and Situation | 77 | ||
| 4.1 Neither Free Nor Arbitrary | 78 | ||
| 5 Form of Life and World Image | 80 | ||
| 5.1 Conditions of Possibility and Framing Factors | 81 | ||
| 6 Acts and Actors | 82 | ||
| 7 Medium and Mediality | 84 | ||
| 7.1 Mediated Immediacy | 85 | ||
| References | 86 | ||
| 4 The Performativity of Practice | 89 | ||
| 1 Doing as Depicting | 90 | ||
| 1.1 Space, Time and Perspective | 92 | ||
| 1.2 The Corporeality and Affectivity of Seeing | 94 | ||
| 1.3 Negativity and Blindness | 96 | ||
| 2 The What and the How | 98 | ||
| 2.1 The Fictional and Narrative Constitution of Reality | 99 | ||
| 2.2 Style and (Re)Formulation | 101 | ||
| 2.3 Iconic Seeing and Seeing Art | 103 | ||
| 2.4 Shown Seeing | 104 | ||
| 2.5 Ethos and Habitus | 108 | ||
| References | 109 | ||
| 5 In Seeing Beyond Seeing | 112 | ||
| 1 Sight and Insight—Seeing and Ways of Seeing | 113 | ||
| 1.1 Wittgenstein’s Aspect-Seeing | 114 | ||
| 1.2 Heidegger’s Interpretation | 116 | ||
| 1.3 The Inevitability of Metaphor | 118 | ||
| 2 The Visible and the Invisible | 122 | ||
| 2.1 Dispositive Instead of Referential | 122 | ||
| 2.2 Perception According to Merleau-Ponty | 124 | ||
| 2.3 Figure and Ground | 128 | ||
| References | 128 | ||
| 6 The Constructions of Imagination | 131 | ||
| 1 The Powers of the Image | 132 | ||
| 1.1 Spontaneity and Receptivity (Kant) | 133 | ||
| 2 The Images of the Faculty | 136 | ||
| 2.1 Iconic Consciousness (Fichte) | 137 | ||
| 3 The Affective Force of Images | 140 | ||
| 4 Corporeality and Iconicity | 142 | ||
| 4.1 Perceptual Images | 144 | ||
| 4.2 Image Without Model | 145 | ||
| 5 Imaginary Seeing | 146 | ||
| 5.1 The Case of Don Quixote | 147 | ||
| 5.2 Images Hold Us Captive | 149 | ||
| References | 150 | ||
| 7 Aesthetic and Ethical World Disclosure | 153 | ||
| 1 Metaphorical Seeing | 154 | ||
| 1.1 Transference and Bridging | 154 | ||
| 1.2 Resemblance | 156 | ||
| 2 Normative Seeing | 158 | ||
| 2.1 Socialisation and Social Control | 160 | ||
| 2.2 Esse Est Percipi | 161 | ||
| References | 162 | ||
| 8 Seeing Each Other | 164 | ||
| 1 Relations of Gazing | 165 | ||
| 1.1 The Look and the Face | 167 | ||
| 2 Sartre’s Notion of Visibility | 168 | ||
| 2.1 Scopic Regimes | 168 | ||
| 2.2 Acquiring and Losing Subjectivity | 172 | ||
| 2.3 Master and Bondsman | 173 | ||
| 3 Being Visible According to Lévinas | 175 | ||
| 3.1 Face-to-Face and Alterity | 175 | ||
| 3.2 Non-sensory Seeing | 177 | ||
| 4 Re-visions | 178 | ||
| References | 180 | ||
| 9 Seeing Art | 182 | ||
| 1 The Art of Seeing Differently and Seeing Difference | 183 | ||
| 1.1 Image and Gaze | 184 | ||
| 2 Gary Hill: The Power of the Gaze | 185 | ||
| 2.1 Rembrandt 1: The Status of the Image | 187 | ||
| 2.2 Fictitious and Imagined Gazes | 189 | ||
| 2.3 Rembrandt 2: Seeing Made Visible | 192 | ||
| 3 Cézanne and Kentridge: Seeing-How and Seeing-As | 193 | ||
| 3.1 Cézanne’s Face | 195 | ||
| 3.2 Syntactic Seeing and the Non-Propositional | 197 | ||
| 3.3 Abstraction and Concretion | 198 | ||
| 3.4 Seeing as Transformation | 199 | ||
| 3.5 How the Visible Becomes a Thing | 199 | ||
| 3.6 Kentridge’s Media | 201 | ||
| 3.7 Shadow Figures | 204 | ||
| 3.8 Semantic Seeing and Sense Making | 206 | ||
| 3.9 How the Visible Becomes an Image | 207 | ||
| 3.10 Seeing as Presentation, Seeing as Performance | 208 | ||
| 4 The Invisibilities of the Visible | 209 | ||
| References | 211 | ||
| Index | 214 |