The Crossing of the Visible

By:

Jean-Luc Marion

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cultural Memory in the Present

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Painting, according to Jean-Luc Marion, is a topic of central concern for philosophy, particularly phenomenology. For the question of painting is, at its heart, a question of visibility - of appearance. As such, the painting is a privileged case of the phenomenon; the painting becomes an index for investigating the conditions of appearance - or what Marion describes as "phenomenality" in general. In this book, Marion takes up just such a subject. The natural outgrowth of his earlier reflections on icons, these four studies carefully consider the history of painting - from classical to contemporary - as a fund for phenomenological reflection on the conditions of (in)visibility. Ranging across artists from Raphael to Rothko, Caravaggio to Pollock, this work offers both a critique of contemporary accounts of the visual and a constructive alternative. According to Marion, the proper response to the "nihilism" of postmodernity is not iconoclasm, but rather a radically iconic account of the visual and the arts which opens them to the invisible.

Author Biography:

Jean-Luc Marion is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris, Sorbonne. He has also taught and lectured for more than fifteen years at various universities in the United States, notably at the University of Chicago. Among his books published in English translation are Being Given (Stanford, 2002), God Without Being, and Reduction and Givenness: Investigations of Husserl, Heidegger, and Phenomenology.

Release date NZ

December 11th, 2003

Author

Jean-Luc Marion

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Contributor

Translated by James K.A. Smith

Pages

120

Series

Cultural Memory in the Present

Dimensions

158x239x8

ISBN-13

9780804733922

Product ID

6286933

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