Showing Off!: A Philosophy of Image

by Jorella Andrews

Book Overview

Drawing on art, media, and phenomenological sources, Showing Off : A Philosophy of Image challenges much recent thought by proposing a fundamentally positive relationship between visuality and the ethical. In philosophy, cultural studies and art, relationships between visuality and the ethical are usually theorized in negative terms, according to the dyadic logics of seeing on the one hand, and being seen, on the other. Here, agency and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472531795
• ISBN13: 9781472531797
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.4"