Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Refusing, however, to defend the dominant visual order, he calls instead for a plurality of "scopic regimes." Certain to generate controversy and discussion throughout the humanities and social sciences, Downcast Eyeswill consolidate Jay's reputation as one of today's premier cultural and intellectual historians. Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought, by Martin Jay xi & 632 pp. His book examines the myriad links between the interrogation of vision and the pervasive antihumanist, antimodernist, and counter-enlightenment tenor of much recent French thought. From consideration of French Impressionism to analysis of Georges Bataille and the Surrealists, Roland Barthes's writings on photography, and the film theory of Christian Metz, Jay provides lucid and fair-minded accounts of thinkers and ideas widely known for their difficulty.
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Jay begins with a discussion of the theory of vision from Plato to Descartes, then considers its role in the French Enlightenment before turning to its status in the culture of modernity. Reviews : Martin Jay, Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought (University of California Press, 1993) Terry Smith, Making the Modern: Industry Art and Design in America (Chicago University Press, 1993) Thesis Eleven 1995 42: 1, 130-134 Download Citation. Martin Jay turns to this discourse surrounding vision and explores its often contradictory implications in the work of such influential figures as Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, Guy Debord, Luce Irigaray, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida. Response to Martin Jays 'Downcast Eyes' While this reading was a bit difficult to understand and digest for me, I found a few quotes that were interesting and stuck out in particular to the discussions we have had regarding the destruction of ones world when torture is involved. They have also criticized its supposed complicity with political and social oppression through the promulgation of spectacle and surveillance. These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged its allegedly superior capacity to provide access to the world. Refusing, however, to defend the dominant visual order, he calls instead for a plurality of "scopic regimes." Certain to generate controversy and discussion throughout the humanities and social sciences, _Downcast Eyes_ will consolidate Jay's reputation as one of today's premier cultural and intellectual historians.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. Jay begins with a discussion of the theory of vision from Plato to Descartes, then considers its role in the French Enlightenment before turning to its status in the culture of modernity. Martin Jay turns to this discourse surrounding vision and explores its often contradictory implications in the work of such influential figures as Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, Guy Debord, Luce Irigaray, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida. To the horror of those who can genuinely.
Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School & the Institute of Social Research, 1923-50.
Ranging from Plato to Jean-Franois Lyotard, Jays book.
These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged its allegedly superior capacity to provide access to the world. Martin Jay is one of my favorite intellectual historians and this is the first book of his I read, though definitely not his last. It was not surprising that after the war Dostoevsky was linked to Kierkegaard as a prophet of social resignation. vision in French thinkers discourses, which will be guided by Martin Jays book. 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.
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