Invention of the Visible - The Image in Light of the Arts

Working at the margins of aesthetics and politics, Patrick Vauday challenges the dominant assumptions of our mediatized society and its disposition towards images. This challenge does not advocate eliminating images altogether, but rather entreats us to see them in a different light.

List of contents

Translators Preface / 1. Introduction / 2. The Image in the Mirror of Ontology / 3. Aesthetics: What Images Do / 4. Poetics: Making Images / 5. Politics: Unmaking and Remaking Images / 6. Conclusion: Towards a Civilization of Images / Bibliography / Index

About the author

Patrick Vauday is Professor of Philosophy at the Université Paris 8. He is the author of several academic books in French.

Summary

Working at the margins of aesthetics and politics, Patrick Vauday challenges the dominant assumptions of our mediatized society and its disposition towards images. This challenge does not advocate eliminating images altogether, but rather entreats us to see them in a different light.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Vauday
• Assisted by: Jared Bly (Translation)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.08.2017
• EAN: 9781786600493
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-049-3
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Reinventing Critical Theory; Reinventing Critical Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works