Looking Through Images
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Emmanuel Alloa
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Translated by:
Nils Schott
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Afterword by:
Andrew Benjamin
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Preface by:
Daniel Herwitz
About this book
Author / Editor information
Nils F. Schott is a lecturer in the Euro-American Program of the Collège universitaire de Sciences Po, Reims, and coeditor of, among other books, Love and Forgiveness for a More Just World (Columbia, 2015).
Andrew Benjamin is distinguished professor of architectural theory at the University of Technology, Sydney, and emeritus professor of philosophy at Monash University Melbourne.cHis recent books include Towards a Relational Ontology: Philosophy’s Other Possibility (2015) and Art’s Philosophical Work (2015).
Reviews
In a lucid reinterpretation of the European tradition, Emmanuel Alloa shows that images are not the seduction or distraction of philosophy but one of its most robust and enduring problems. Here Geistesgeschichte shows itself the royal road to understanding media
James Elkins, The Art Institute of Chicago:
A real gift to the field of visual studies
W. J. T. Mitchell, author of What Do Pictures Want? Essays on the Lives and Loves of Images:
Emmanuel Alloa’s Looking Through Images is a real tour de force. A masterful study of images, media, and visual experience, it provides an ABC of philosophical struggles with these concepts, from Aristotle to Berkeley to Descartes, Husserl, Sartre, and beyond. What is an image? What is a medium? How do we know what we see, and see what we know? This book is a feast of learning that ranges across disciplines with admirable precision.
Chiara Bottici, author of Imaginal Politics: Images Beyond Imagination and the Imaginary:
Alloa’s tour de force provides an incredibly erudite and insightful perspective on the phenomenology of images. A must-read for anyone wishing to analyze the visual imperatives of the world, for which we have lacked the appropriate tools.
Jean-Luc Nancy, University of Strasbourg:
In this innovative, rich, and powerful book, Emmanuel Alloa brilliantly shows why images don’t represent the real, but let the real come into being.
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