The Ground of the Image

by Jean-Luc Nancy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823225410
• ISBN13: 9780823225415
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.0"