Preface to the English Edition

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface to the English Edition xiii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Between Thing and Sign: The Hubris of the Image 13
6. 2. Aristotle’s Foundation of a Media Theory of Appearing 53
7. 3. Forgetting Media: Traces of the Diaphanous from Themistius to Berkeley 105
8. 4. A Phenomenology of Images 159
9. 5. Media Phenomenology 209
10. Conclusion: Seeing Through Images— for an Alternative Theory of Media 293
11. Afterword: Seeing Not Riddling 297
12. Bibliography 355
13. Index 377