Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought

by Martin Jay

Book Overview

Long considered "the noblest of the senses," vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged its allegedly superior capacity to provide access to the world. They have also criticized its supposed complicity with political and social oppression through the promulgation of spectacle...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520088859
• ISBN13: 9780520088856
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"