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Informationen zum Autor Edward S. Casey Klappentext It will become a landmark study in phenomenology, philosophy, environmental philosophy, and the philosophy of mind. Zusammenfassung What happens when we glance around a room? How do we trust what we see in fleeting moments? Glancing counts for more of human perception than previously imagined. An entire universe is perceived in a glance, but our quick and uncommitted attention prevents examination of these rapid acts and processes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Prologue: Regaining the Glance Introduction: Taking in the World at a Glance Part One: Approximating to the Glance 1. Getting into the Glance 2. Coming Closer to the Glance 3. Becoming and Being Oriented by the Glance 4. The Hegemony of the Gaze Part Two: Glancing Earlier and Farther Afield 5. The Glance in Ancient Athens 6. The Sudden, the Surprising, and the Wondrous: With Walter Benjamin on the Streets of Paris Coda Part Three: Getting Inside the Glance 7. The Singularity of the Glance 8. Glancing Time 9. Attending and Glancing Part Four: Praxis of the Glance 10. The Ethics of the Glance 11. The Natural Environment in a Glance 12. Glancing at the Image in Photography and Painting Concluding Thoughts: Catching Sight of Surprise Afterword: Families of the Glance and the Gaze Index
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Regaining the Glance
Introduction: Taking in the World at a Glance
Part One: Approximating to the Glance
1. Getting into the Glance
2. Coming Closer to the Glance
3. Becoming and Being Oriented by the Glance
4. The Hegemony of the Gaze
Part Two: Glancing Earlier and Farther Afield
5. The Glance in Ancient Athens
6. The Sudden, the Surprising, and the Wondrous: With Walter Benjamin on the Streets of Paris
Coda
Part Three: Getting Inside the Glance
7. The Singularity of the Glance
8. Glancing Time
9. Attending and Glancing
Part Four: Praxis of the Glance
10. The Ethics of the Glance
11. The Natural Environment in a Glance
12. Glancing at the Image in Photography and Painting
Concluding Thoughts: Catching Sight of Surprise
Afterword: Families of the Glance and the Gaze
Index
About the author
Edward S. Casey is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at SUNY-Stony Brook. He is the author of several books, including
Getting Back into Place (IUP, 1993),
Imagining (IUP, 1976), and
Remembering (IUP, 1987).
