Download or read book Philosophie de l image written by François Dagognet and published by Vrin. This book was released on 1984 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce livre traite de l'image, mais aussi, plus generalement, de la copie, du double, de la representation, du calque, du sosie... La philosophie, a juste titre, a mis en garde contres ces si dangereux reflets. Ne doit-on pas preferer ce qui est a ce qui l'imite ou le mime? Mefions-nous des leurres! Cependant, on est revenu sur cette seculaire et injuste condamnation. La technologie moderne a peu a peu sauve celle qu'on avait trop inferiorisee et eloignee. Et quelle victoire! L'image numerique, donc celle de synthese, l'arrache a une servitude que les philosophes classiques et meme plus modernes avaient scellee. L'electro-optique, la tomodensitometrie (scannographie), l'holographie, entre autres, multiplient les prouesses liberatrices. Dans le passe, la photographie, voire la radiographie avaient deja ebranle les anciennes positions. La guerre commencait. L'imagerie deferle donc, ainsi que l'industrie noire des contrefacons, des plagiats, des pseudo-repliques, du pastiche. Les trucages et la fraude. Mais ou situer aujourd'hui le vrai et le faux? Comment distinguer le modele et son equivalent? Les vieilles frontieres, comme on le montrera, s'estompent. Quel branle-bas et quelle fete aussi! On a voulu prendre acte de cette nouveaute. Hatons-nous, malgre le danger de nous y perdre, d'engager la philosophie que nous croyons reticente dans ce tourbillon.

Download or read book La vie des images written by Jean-Jacques Wunenburger and published by Les Éditions Spéciales. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Il s'agit de la 3è édition du livre édité pour la première fois en 1995. Cette version numérique est une reprise intégrale de la publication de 2002 augmentée de plusieurs chapitres. Les images, symboles mythes, tant visuels que langagiers, ne s’accumulent pas seulement de manière passive et associative dans la mémoire individuelle et collective. Elles forment de véritables mondes, nous habitent, nous transforment, nous aident à percevoir, à rêver, à créer ou à donner sens à notre vie. La présente contribution à une anthropologie de l’imaginaire vise à rappeler les conditions méthodologiques et philosophiques de l’interprétation des images, à livrer quelques descriptions significatives de « la vie des images » (Gaston Bachelard), de leur capacité à entrer dans des formations et transformations symboliques, avant de proposer quelques échantillons d’une « mythanalyse » qui doit permettre de mieux comprendre les métamorphoses des imaginaires à travers l’histoire. On espère ainsi enrichir les recherches en vue d’une « imagogologie » générale dont les résultats intéressent philosophie, littératures, sciences des arts, psychologie, sociologie, politique et religions, etc., qui serait à même de nous rendre davantage conscients des promesses et des risques de l’iconosphère dans laquelle nous vivons.

Download or read book Philosophie des images written by Jean-Jacques Wunenburger and published by Presses Universitaires de France - PUF. This book was released on 1997 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regroupement d'articles et d'essais sous deux grands titres : le monde de la science et de la technique; la rencontre avec la dimension éthique. [SDM].

Download or read book Image et Philosophie written by Augustin Dumont and published by Peter Lang Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage a pour objectif d'interroger en profondeur la manière avec laquelle, historiquement, les philosophes ont « pratiqué l'image dans le concept ». Les auteurs s'interrogent sur le recours à la visualité et à la métaphore dans l'élaboration des schèmes philosophiques à travers l'histoire de la philosophie et les rapports que cette dernière entend tisser avec l'histoire du monde. On tâche de cerner les raisons que les philosophes ont pu avoir de mobiliser ou au contraire de rejeter cet opérateur conceptuel, d'assumer sa performativité ou bien de déplorer son caractère résiduel et résistant à toute systématisation de la rationalité. L'ouvrage cherche ainsi à dégager quelques figures centrales du nouage que les philosophes ne cessent d'opérer au sein du chiasme reliant la construction philosophique de l'image et la constitution de la pensée par l'image. Platon, saint Augustin, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Nietzsche, Bergson, Bachelard, Wittgenstein, Fink, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Castoriadis, Simondon et Deleuze sont les auteurs privilégiés dans cet ensemble.

Download or read book The Ground of the Image written by Jean-Luc Nancy and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned philosopher provides “noteworthy contributions to themes connected with images, imagination, representation, aesthetics, and . . . religion.” —Journal of American Academy of Religion What is this power that lies in the depths and recesses of an image—which is always only an impenetrable surface? What secrets are concealed in the ground or in the figures of an image—which never does anything but show just exactly what it is and nothing else? How does the immanence of images open onto their unimaginable others, their imageless origin? In this collection of writings on images and visual art, Jean-Luc Nancy explores such questions through an extraordinary range of references. From Renaissance painting and landscape to photography and video, from the image of Roman death masks to the language of silent film, from Cleopatra to Kant and Heidegger, Nancy pursues a reflection on visuality that goes far beyond the many disciplines with which it intersects. He offers insights into the religious, cultural, political, art historical, and philosophical aspects of the visual relation, treating such vexed problems as the connection between image and violence, the sacred status of images, and, in a profound and important essay, the forbidden representation of the Shoah. In the background of all these investigations lies a preoccupation with finitude, the unsettling forces envisaged by the images that confront us, the limits that bind us to them, the death that stares back at us from their frozen traits and distant intimacies. In these vibrant and complex essays, a central figure in European philosophy continues to work through some of the most important questions of our time.

Download or read book The Rise of the Image the Fall of the Word written by Mitchell Stephens and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades educators and cultural critics have deplored the corrosive effects of electronic media on the national consciousness. The average American reads less often, writes less well. And, numbed by the frenetic image-bombardment of music videos, commercials and sound bites, we may also, it is argued, think less profoundly. But wait. Is it just possible that some good might arise from the ashes of the printed word? Most emphatically yes, argues Mitchell Stephens, who asserts that the moving image is likely to make our thoughts not more feeble but more robust. Through a fascinating overview of previous communications revolutions, Stephens demonstrates that the charges that have been leveled against television have been faced by most new media, including writing and print. Centuries elapsed before most of these new forms of communication would be used to produce works of art and intellect of sufficient stature to overcome this inevitable mistrust and nostalgia. Using examples taken from the history of photography and film, as well as MTV, experimental films, and Pepsi commercials, the author considers the kinds of work that might unleash, in time, the full power of moving images. And he argues that these works--an emerging computer-edited and -distributed "new video"--have the potential to inspire transformations in thought on a level with those inspired by the products of writing and print. Stephens sees in video's complexities, simultaneities, and juxtapositions, new ways of understanding and perhaps even surmounting the tumult and confusions of contemporary life. Sure to spark lively--even heated--debate, The Rise of the Image, the Fall of the Word belongs in the library of millennium-watchers everywhere.

Download or read book Refractions of Reality Philosophy and the Moving Image written by John Mullarkey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-12-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to explore all central issues surrounding the relationship between the film-image and philosophy. It tackles the work of particular philosophers of film (Žižek, Deleuze and Cavell) as well as general philosophical positions (Cognitivist and Culturalist), and analyses the ability of film to teach and create philosophy.

Download or read book The Image in French Philosophy written by Temenuga Trifonova and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Image in French Philosophy challenges dominant interpretations of Bergson, Sartre, Lyotard, Baudrillard and Deleuze by arguing that their philosophy was not a critique but a revival of metaphysics as a thinking pertaining to impersonal forces and distinguished by an aversion to subjectivity and an aversion of the philosophical gaze away from the discourse of vision, and thus away from the image. Insofar as the image was part of the discourse of subjectivity/representation, getting rid of the subject involved smuggling the concept of the image out of the discourse of subjectivity/representation into a newly revived and ethically flavored metaphysical discourse--a metaphysics of immanence, which was more interested in consciousness rather than subjectivity, in the inhuman rather than the human, in the virtual rather than the real, in Time rather than temporalization, in Memory rather than memory-images, in Imagination rather than images, in sum, in impersonal forces, de-personalizing experiences, states of dis-embodiment characterized by the breaking down of sensory-motor schemata (Bergson's pure memory, Sartre's image-consciousness, Deleuze's time-image) or, more generally, in that which remains beyond representation i.e. beyond subjectivity (Lyotard's sublime, Baudrillard's fatal object). The book would be of interest to scholars and students of philosophy, aesthetics, and film theory.

Download or read book L image written by Alexander Schnell and published by Vrin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le present ouvrage rassemble dix etudes consacrees a l'approche philosophique de l'image. D'une part, il expose les doctrines philosophiques classiques de l'image, les representants les plus significatifs a cet egard etant Platon pour l'Antiquite, Maitre Eckhart, Nicolas de Cues, Descartes pour les periodes du Moyen Age, de la Renaissance, de la philosophie classique et Fichte pour la philosophie moderne. D'autre part, il presente les debats actuels autour des differentes theories de l'image. La parole est ainsi donnee aux representants les plus eminents de ce que l'on a pu appeler l'iconologie du vingtieme siecle: Bergson pour les philosophies de la vie, Wittgenstein pour la philosophie anglo-saxonne, Husserl et Sartre pour la phenomenologie, Deleuze pour la philosophie francaise contemporaine, Lacan pour la psychanalyse. Enfin, la derniere contribution traite de la question de l'image dans l'esthetique contemporaine.

Download or read book L image de la philosophie written by Lucien Braun and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Resemblance and Representation written by Ben Blumson and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2014-09-21 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s a platitude – which only a philosopher would dream of denying – that whereas words are connected to what they represent merely by arbitrary conventions, pictures are connected to what they represent by resemblance. The most important difference between my portrait and my name, for example, is that whereas my portrait and I are connected by my portrait’s resemblance to me, my name and I are connected merely by an arbitrary convention. The first aim of this book is to defend this platitude from the apparently compelling objections raised against it, by analysing depiction in a way which reveals how it is mediated by resemblance. It’s natural to contrast the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblance, which emphasises the differences between depictive and descriptive representation, with an extremely close analogy between depiction and description, which emphasises the similarities between depictive and descriptive representation. Whereas the platitude emphasises that the connection between my portrait and me is natural in a way the connection between my name and me is not, the analogy emphasises the contingency of the connection between my portrait and me. Nevertheless, the second aim of this book is to defend an extremely close analogy between depiction and description. The strategy of the book is to argue that the apparently compelling objections raised against the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblance are manifestations of more general problems, which are familiar from the philosophy of language. These problems, it argues, can be resolved by answers analogous to their counterparts in the philosophy of language, without rejecting the platitude. So the combination of the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblance with a close analogy between depiction and description turns out to be a compelling theory of depiction, which combines the virtues of common sense with the insights of its detractors.

Download or read book Philosophy of Mind Philosophie de l esprit written by Guttorm Fløistad and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is a continuation of two earlier series of chroni cles, Philosophy in the Mid-Century (Firenze 1958/59) and Con temporary Philosophy (Firenze 1968), edited by Raymond Kli bansky. Like the other series, these chronicles provide a survey of important trends in contemporary philosophical discussion from 1966 to 1980. The need for such surveys has, I believe, increased rather than decreased over the last years. The philosophical scene appears, for various reasons, more complex than ever before. The continuing process of specialization in most branches, the emergence of new schools of thought, particularly in philosophical logic and the philosophy of language, the convergence of interest (though not necessarily of opinion) of different traditions upon certain prob lems, and the increasing attention being paid to the history of philosophy in discussions of contemporary problems are the most important contributory factors. Surveys of the present kind are a valuable source of knowledge of this complexity and may as such be an assistance in renewing the understanding of one's own phi losophical problems. The surveys, it is to be hoped, may also help to strengthen the Socratic element of modem philosophy, the dialogue or Kommunikationsgemeinscha/t. • So far, four volumes have been· prepared for the new series. The present chronicles in the Philosophy of Mind (Vol. 4) follow upon chronicles in the Philosophy of Language and Philosophical Logic (Vol. 1) and chronicles in the Philosophy 0/ Science (Vol. 2) and chronicles in the Philosophy 0/ Action (Vol. 4).

Download or read book Images written by John V. Kulvicki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of representation is a central topic in philosophy. This is the first book to connect problems with understanding representational artifacts, like pictures, diagrams, and inscriptions, to the philosophies of science, mind, and art. Can images be a source of knowledge? Are images merely conventional signs, like words? What is the relationship between the observer and the observed? In this clear and stimulating introduction to the problem John V. Kulvicki explores these questions and more. He discusses: the nature of pictorial experience and "seeing in" recognition, resemblance, pretense, and structural theories of depiction images as aids to scientific discovery and understanding mental imagery and the nature of perceptual content photographs as visual prostheses. In so doing he assesses central problems in the philosophy of images, such as how objects we make come to represent other things, and how we distinguish kinds of representation - pictures, diagrams, graphs - from one another. Essential reading for students and professional philosophers alike, the book also contains chapter summaries, annotated further reading, and a glossary.

Download or read book In Search of a New Image of Thought written by Gregg Lambert and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregg Lambert demonstrates that since the publication of Proust and Signs in 1964 Gilles Deleuze's search for a new means of philosophical expression became a central theme of all of his oeuvre, including those written with psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. Lambert, like Deleuze, calls this "the image of thought." Lambert's exploration begins with Deleuze's earliest exposition of the Proustian image of thought and then follows the "tangled history" of the image that runs through subsequent works, such as Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature, The Rhizome (which serves as an introduction to Deleuze's A Thousand Plateaus), and several later writings from the 1980s collected in Essays Critical and Clinical. Lambert shows how this topic underlies Deleuze's studies of modern cinema, where the image of thought is predominant in the analysis of the cinematic image--particularly in The Time-Image. Lambert finds it to be the fundamental concern of the brain proposed by Deleuze in the conclusion of What Is Philosophy? By connecting the various appearances of the image of thought that permeate Deleuze's entire corpus, Lambert reveals how thinking first assumes an image, how the images of thought become identified with the problem of expression early in the works, and how this issue turns into a primary motive for the more experimental works of philosophy written with Guattari. The study traces a distinctly modern relationship between philosophy and non-philosophy (literature and cinema especially) that has developed into a hallmark of the term "Deleuzian." However, Lambert argues, this aspect of the philosopher's vision has not been fully appreciated in terms of its significance for philosophy: "not only 'for today' but, to quote Nietzsche, meaning also 'for tomorrow, and for the day after tomorrow.'"

Download or read book Picture Image and Experience written by Robert Hopkins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-12-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do pictures represent? In this book Robert Hopkins casts new light on an ancient question by connecting it to issues in the philosophies of mind and perception. He starts by describing several striking features of picturing that demand explanation. These features strongly suggest that our experience of pictures is central to the way they represent, and Hopkins characterizes that experience as one of resemblance in a particular respect. He deals convincingly with the objections traditionally assumed to be fatal to resemblance views, and shows how his own account is uniquely well placed to explain picturing's key features. His discussion engages in detail with issues concerning perception in general, including how to describe phenomena that have long puzzled philosophers and psychologists, and the book concludes with an attempt to see what a proper understanding of picturing can tell us about that deeply mysterious phenomenon, the visual imagination.

Download or read book Cyborgian Images written by Lars C. Grabbe and published by Büchner-Verlag. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the big myths and metaphors of the postmodern age is the Cyborg, which includes a large amount of different meanings. The Cyborg often expresses the transformation and extension of the body and exemplifies a postmodern range of technical determinism and human comprehension. In this perspective the Cyborg is no longer a concept of science fiction, technical apocalypse or cyberpunk, but more a construct that highlights the relation of modern media technologies within our every day culture; as well as the body and mind of spectators and users of these media systems. We are connected with a variety of poly-sensual media systems, and we use its potential for communication, multiplying knowledge, spatial and temporal orientation or aesthetic experience. Therefore we are a kind of Cyborgs, connected to media by complex multimodal interfaces. This volume monitors and discusses the relation of postmodern humans and media technologies and therefore refers to Cyborgs, interfaces and apparatuses within the perspective of an autonomous image science.