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Ground Of The Image

Name: Ground Of The Image
Author: James Mcgrath Morris

Auteur: Jean-Luc Nancy

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Jean-Luc Nancy James Mcgrath Morris

Co-auteur: James Morris

Engels
Paperback
9780823225415
15 december 2005
176 pagina's

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What powers lie hidden in images? Nancy explores the complicated effects of the visual on culture, truth, and meaning. Writings on the power hidden in the depth of an image.

If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. Mistrusted by philosophy, forbidden and embraced by religions, manipulated as “spectacle” and proliferated in the media, images never cease to present their multiple aspects, their paradoxes, their flat but receding spaces.
What is this power that lies in the depths and recesses of an image—which is always only an impenetrable surface? What secrets are concealed in the ground or in the figures of an image—which never does anything but show just exactly what it is and nothing else? How does the immanence of images open onto their unimaginable others, their imageless origin?
In this collection of writings on images and visual art, Jean-Luc Nancy explores such questions through an extraordinary range of references. From Renaissance painting and landscape to photography and video, from the image of Roman death masks to the language of silent film, from Cleopatra to Kant and Heidegger, Nancy pursues a reflection on visuality that goes far beyond the many disciplines with which it intersects. He offers insights into the religious, cultural, political, art historical, and philosophical aspects of the visual relation, treating such vexed problems as the connection between image and violence, the sacred status of images, and, in a profound and important essay, the forbidden representation of the Shoah. In the background of all these investigations lies a preoccupation with finitude, the unsettling forces envisaged by the images that confront us, the limits that bind us to them, the death that stares back at us from their frozen traits and distant intimacies.
In these vibrant and complex essays, a central figure in European philosophy continues to work through some of the most important questions of our time.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 15 december 2005
Aantal pagina's: 176
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Jean-Luc Nancy
Tweede Auteur: James Mcgrath Morris
Co Auteur: James Morris
Hoofdredacteur: James L. Heft
Hoofduitgeverij: Fordham University Press

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Eerste Vertaler: Jeff Fort
Originele titel: The Ground of the Image

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Editie: annotated ed
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 152 mm
Product lengte: 229 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 152 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 229 mm
Verpakking lengte: 229 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 260 g

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EAN: 9780823225415

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Categorieën: Kunst & Fotografie

Religie, Spiritualiteit & Filosofie

Kunsttheorie

Religie

Theologie & Religieuze kwesties

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Taal: Engels
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
Periode: ca. 1920-1939
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