Camera Obscura: An Archeological Survey from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age

by Sarah Kofman

Book Overview

Marx, Freud, Nietzsche--in vastly different ways all three employed the metaphor of the camera obscura in their work. In this classic book--at last available in an English translation--the distinguished French philosopher Sarah Kofman offers an extended reflection on this metaphor. She contrasts the mechanical function of the camera obscura as a kind of copy machine, rendering a mirror-image of the work, with its use in the writings of master thinkers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801485932
• ISBN13: 9780801485930
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher