CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. CONTRIBUTORS IX
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Light as a Metaphor for Truth: At the Preliminary Stage of Philosophical Concept Formation 30
6. 2. Vision, Representation, and Technology in Descartes 63
7. 3. Vision, Reflection, and Openness: The "Hegemony of Vision" from a Hegelian Point of View 87
8. 4. In the Shadows of Philosophy: Nietzsche and the Question of Vision 124
9. 5. Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and the Search for a New Ontology of Sight 143
10. 6. Decline and Fall: Ocularcentrism in Heidegger's Reading of the History of Metaphysics 186
11. 7. Time's Cinders 218
12. 8. Derrida and the Closure of Vision 234
13. 9. The Face and the Caress: Levinas's Ethical Alterations of Sensibility 252
14. 10. Foucault and the Eclipse of Vision 273
15. 11. Ocularcentrism and Social Criticism 287
16. 12. Dream World of Mass Culture: Walter Benjamin's Theory of Modernity and the Dialectics of Seeing 309
17. 13. The Despotic Eye and Its Shadow: Media Image in the Age of Literacy 339
18. 14. Assisting at the Birth and Death of Philosophic Vision 361
19. 15. His Master's Eye 379
20. INDEX 405