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| Other authors / contributors: | Stein, Batya, translator.
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| ISBN: | 9780857733337
0857733338
9780857722225
0857722220
129966413X
9781299664135
1780765150
9781780765150
9781780765167
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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 images? Can they ever provide the sense of meaningfulness we crave?French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas confronted and subverted these questions. A superficial reading of his works might indicate an ambivalence if not an outright hostility towards the world of images; he objected to the medium's finite, flat character and, mo.
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| Other form: | Print version: Kenaan, Hagi. Ethics of Visuality, The : Levinas and the Contemporary Gaze. London : I.B. Tauris, ©2013 9781780765167
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