Preface to the English Edition

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents VII
3. Preface to the Second English Edition IX
4. Preface to the English Edition XI
5. Introduction: The Problematic Centrality of the Image
6. 1. Increasing Reflection of the Image 1
7. 2. Leonardo’s Invitation to Captivity 3
8. 3. The Energeia of the Image 7
9. I. Origins and Concepts
10. 1. Defining the Image 11
11. 2. Plato, Heidegger, Lacan 18
12. 3. Speech Act and Image Act 29
13. II. Inherent Theory
14. 1. Early Statements in the First Person Singular 37
15. 2. The Signature as Witness to the Self 45
16. 3. Works of Art that Speak 63
17. III. Schematic Image Acts: Animation of the Image
18. 1. Living Images 77
19. 2. The Vitality of Mechanised Movement 98
20. 3. Liminal Bodies: From Beauty to Biofact 112
21. IV. Substitutive Image Acts: The Exchange of Body and Image
22. 1. The Media of Substitution 137
23. 2. Forms of Substitution in a Social Context 156
24. 3. Dominion, Insurrection, War 175
25. V. Intrinsic Image Acts: Image as Form
26. 1. The Image as Beholder 193
27. 2. The Dynamics of Formal Self-Transgression 209
28. 3. The Irresistibility of Form 242
29. VI. Conclusion: The Nature of the Image Act
30. 1. Evolution and the Image Act 265
31. 2. The Play of Images in Nature 273
32. 3. Image-active Enlightenment 279
33. Postscript: The Eye in Flight 285
34. Acknowledgements 289
35. Bibliography 293
36. Index 341
37. Picture Credits 359