Publication

1999 - University of California Press, Berkeley, California

Language

English

Word Count

123,250 words, Guess

Page Count

493 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL381495M
  • ISBN-100520217802
  • OCLC Control Number40359316
  • Library of Congress Control Number98043812
  • Goodreads901244
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  • LibraryThing8486274

Classifications

  • DDC190
  • LCCB846 .L48 1999

Description

"David Michael Levin's ongoing exploration of the moral character and enlightenment-potential of vision takes a new direction in The Philosopher's Gaze. Levin examines texts by Descartes, Husserl, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas, using our culturally dominant mode of perception and the philosophical discourse it has generated as the site for his critical reflections on the moral culture in which we are living."--BOOK JACKET. "In Levin's view, all these philosophers attempted to understand, one way or another, the distinctive pathologies of the modern age. But every one also attempted to envision - if only through the faintest of traces, traces of mutual recognition, traces of another way of looking and seeing - the prospects for a radically different lifeworld."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The philosopher's gaze: modernity in the shadows of enlightenmentUniversity of California Press1999-01-01

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