{"product_id":"the-philosophers-gaze-modernity-in-the-shadows-of-enlightenment-hardcover","title":"The Philosopher's Gaze: Modernity in the Shadows of Enlightenment - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Michael Levin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Michael Levin's ongoing exploration of the moral character and enlightenment-potential of vision takes a new direction in \u003ci\u003eThe Philosopher's Gaze\u003c\/i\u003e. Levin examines texts by Descartes, Husserl, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin, Merleau-Ponty, and Lévinas, using our culturally dominant mode of perception and the philosophical discourse it has generated as the site for his critical reflections on the moral culture in which we are living.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Levin's view, all these philosophers attempted to understand, one way or another, the distinctive pathologies of the modern age. But every one also attempted to envision--if only through the faintest of traces, traces of mutual recognition, traces of another way of looking and seeing--the prospects for a radically different lifeworld. The world, after all, inevitably reflects back to us the character, the reach and range, of our vision.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these provocative essays, the author draws on the language of hermeneutical phenomenology and at the same time refines phenomenology itself as a method of working with our experience and thinking critically about the culture in which we live.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis bold and philosophically imaginative venture, problematizing the sovereignty of vision and resituating it in its relativity to the other modalities of perception, may well stand as Levin's 'consummate philosophical contribution.'--Calvin O. Schrag, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Resources of Rationality\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a unique and timely contribution. Levin's genius consists in taking material that is presumed to be familiar to philosophers and to readers of philosophy and demonstrating that something is happening in this material that was not evident before now.--Edward S. Casey, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fate of Place\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis bold and philosophically imaginative venture, problematizing the sovereignty of vision and resituating it in its relativity to the other modalities of perception, may well stand as Levin's 'consummate philosophical contribution.'--Calvin O. Schrag, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Resources of Rationality\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a unique and timely contribution. Levin's genius consists in taking material that is presumed to be familiar to philosophers and to readers of philosophy and demonstrating that something is happening in this material that was not evident before now.\"--Edward S. Casey, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fate of Place\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Michael Levin\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University and author of several books. Most recently he edited \u003ci\u003eLanguage Beyond Postmodernism\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), \u003ci\u003eSites of Vision\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), and \u003ci\u003eModernity and the Hegemony of Vision\u003c\/i\u003e (California, 1994).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 502\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.25 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 08, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52715070947635,"sku":"9780520217805","price":120.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/a0RmSmljdm5PTnF1Q2tXNTdXQnZEdz09.webp?v=1763589686","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-philosophers-gaze-modernity-in-the-shadows-of-enlightenment-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}