Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Noblest of the Senses: Vision from Plato to Descartes 21
6. 2.Dialectic of EnLIGHTenment 83
7. 3. The Crisis of the Ancien Scopic Regime: From the Impressionists to Bergson 149
8. 4. The Disenchantment of the Eye: Bataille and the Surrealists 211
9. 5. Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and the Search for a New Ontology of Sight 263
10. 6. Lacan, Althusser, and the Specular Subject of Ideology 329
11. 7. From the Empire of the Gaze to the Society of the Spectacle: Foucault and Debord 381
12. 8. The Camera as Memento Mori: Barthes, Metz, and the Cahiers du Cinema 435
13. "Phallogocularcentrism" : Derrida and Irigaray 493
14. 10. The Ethics of Blindness and the Postmodern Sublime: Levinas and Lyotard 543
15. Conclusion 587
16. Index 595