The threshold of the visible world
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The threshold of the visible world
Routledge, 1996
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-249) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: cloth ISBN 9780415910385
Description
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.
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: pbk ISBN 9780415910392
Description
In The Threshold of the Visible World Kaja Silverman advances a revolutionary new political aesthetic, exploring the possibilities for looking beyond the restrictive mandates of the self, and the normative aspects of the cultural image-repertoire. She provides a detailed account of the social and psychic forces which constrain us to look and identify in normative ways, and the violence which that normativity implies.
Table of Contents
- 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
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