The Threshold of the Visible World

ISBN-13: 9780415910392 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 264 str.

Silverman

Opis

Examining the topic of love, this work argues that it has a political role to play as well as a role within the psychic domain. It brings together Benjamin's notion of the aura with Brecht's notion of alienation to articulate a new set of parameters for political representation, and demonstrates that our look is always shadowed by our desires and anxieties, and mediated by representations which surround us - this is what causes our visual violence towards others. The author explores the conscious and unconscious circumstances under which such acts of violence might be undone, and the look induced to see and affirm what is abject, and alien to itself.

Recenzje

"...Silverman has managed to advance an ethical position with scrupulous lucidity, as intricate as it is compelling and inspiring." -- San Francisco Bay Guardian

Spis treści

Introduction; Part 1 The Threshold; Chapter 1 The Bodily Ego; Chapter 2 From the Ideal-Ego to the Active Gift of Love; Chapter 3 Political Ecstasy; Part 2 The Visible World; Chapter 4 The Gaze; Chapter 5 The Look; Chapter 6 The Screen;

O autorze

Silverman, Kaja