Artificial Presence: Philosophical Studies in Image Theory - Couverture souple

Wiesing, Lambert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0804759413 ISBN 13 : 9780804759410

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2009

Synopsis

These collected studies on the philosophy of the image offer the fundamental insight that images alone make the artificial presence of things possible. Images present things as exclusively visible, released from the laws of physics. Taking this idea as his point of departure, Wiesing provides an overview of the fundamental positions in contemporary image studies. He describes the use of images as signs from a phenomenological perspective, reconstructs Plato's concept of mimesis by way of the canon of images it presupposes, and demonstrates the special relevance of extreme types of images- virtual reality, desktop windows, or abstract photography-for the philosophical labor of the concept of the image.

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À propos de l'auteur

Lambert Wiesing is Professor of Comparative Picture Theory and Phenomenology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany. His most recent book is Die Sichtbarkeit des Bildes (2008).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804759413
• ISBN 13: 9780804759410
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 168
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible