Outlining an original philosophical argument on the place of visuality in Levinas' ethics, Kenaan looks at the concepts of his work and articulates his vision of 'otherness' together with the visual tropes of the human face as symbolic of alterity and transcendence.
Our world is saturated with images. Images multiply around us, having reached the status of essentially reproducible commodities. Overwhelmed by this proliferation of visual stimuli, our gaze becomes increasingly bored and distracted. Do we ever really read and engage with image…
Cet ouvrage établit un parallèle entre le mythe de Robinson Crusoe et les premiers explorateurs américains. Ainsi, si Robinson a d'abord tenté de tuer Vendredi pour éviter d'avoir à partager son temps et son espace avec un "sauvage", les explorateurs eux tentèrent d'éliminer les…
Cet ouvrage établit un parallèle entre le mythe de Robinson Crusoe et les premiers explorateurs américains. Ainsi, si Robinson a d'abord tenté de tuer Vendredi pour éviter d'avoir à partager son temps et son espace avec un sauvage, les explorateurs eux tentèrent d'éliminer les I…
"Examines representations of surplus enjoyment in postcolonial literature and film to focus on self-other relations rather than difference"--
"Examines representations of surplus enjoyment in postcolonial literature and film to focus on self-other relations rather than difference"--
"Examines representations of surplus enjoyment in postcolonial literature and film to focus on self-other relations rather than difference"--
Mind and Body in Early China' critiques Orientalist accounts of early China as the radical, "holistic" other. The idea that the early Chinese held the "strong" holist view, seeing no qualitative difference between mind and body, has long been contradicted by traditional archeolo…