Sites of Vision: The Discursive Construction of Sight in the History of Philosophy

by David Michael Kleinberg-Levin

Book Overview

The fourteen contributors to Sites of Vision explore the hypothesis that the nature of visual perception about which philosophers talk must be explicitly recognized as a discursive construction, indeed a historical construction, in philosophical discourse. In recent years scholars from many disciplines have become interested in the "construction" of the human senses--in how the human environment shapes both how and what we perceive. Taking a very...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262621290
• ISBN13: 9780262621298
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 506 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher