The Threshold of the Visible World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Threshold of the Visible World write by Kaja Silverman. This book was released on 2013-11-19. The Threshold of the Visible World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Threshold of the Visible World Kaja Silverman advances a revolutionary new political aesthetic, exploring the possibilities for looking beyond the restrictive mandates of the self, and the normative aspects of the cultural image-repertoire. She provides a detailed account of the social and psychic forces which constrain us to look and identify in normative ways, and the violence which that normativity implies.
World Spectators
World Spectators - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook World Spectators write by Kaja Silverman. This book was released on 2000. World Spectators available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Combining phenomenology and psychoanalysis in highly innovative ways, this book seeks to undo the binary opposition between appearance and Being that has been in place since Platos parable of the cave. It is, essentially, an essay on what could be called world love, the possibility and necessity for psychic survival of a profound and vital erotic investment by a human being in the cosmic surround. Here, the author takes her cue from Freuds assertion that the loss of reality associated with psychosis is a function of a disturbance not in the capacity to reason or perceive, but rather in the capacity for world love, the libidinal and semiotic circuity by means of which such love actualizes itself. In an implicit challenge to poststructuralist thought, the author claims that this love is always in response to a call issued by the worldthat the world has, as it were, a vocation: its beauty ought to be seen. We must think of our own being-in-the world as a response to a primordial calling out to respond to this beauty. We are, the author suggests, at the very core of our being, summoned to what she terms world spectatorship. Drawing on Heideggers phenomenological elaboration of care as the being distinctive of human being and the primarily Lacanian conceptualization of the language of desire specific to each human subject, this metapsychology of love attempts to integrate issues in the fields of psychoanalysis, philosophy, visual culture, art history, and literary and film studies.
The Visible World
The Visible World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Visible World write by Thijs Weststeijn. This book was released on 2008. The Visible World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How did painters and their public speak about art in Rembrandt's age? This book about the writings of the painter-poet Samuel van Hoogstraten, one of Rembrandt's pupils, examines a wide variety of themes from painting practice and theory from the Dutch Golden Age. It addresses the contested issue of 'Dutch realism' and its hidden symbolism, as well as Rembrandt's concern with representing emotions in order to involve the spectator. Diverse aspects of imitation and illusion come to the fore, such as the theory behind sketchy or 'rough' brushwork and the active role played by the viewer's imagination. Taking as its starting point discussions in Rembrandt's studio, this unique study provides an ambitious overview of Dutch artists' ideas on painting.
Male Subjectivity at the Margins
Male Subjectivity at the Margins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Male Subjectivity at the Margins write by Kaja Silverman. This book was released on 2017-09-25. Male Subjectivity at the Margins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through the examination of a range of literary and cinematic texts, from William Wyler's classic The Best Years of Our Lives to the novels of Henry James, Silverman offers a bold new look at masculinities which deviate from the social norm.
Beyond the Threshold
Beyond the Threshold - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Threshold write by Christopher M. Moreman. This book was released on 2008-09-18. Beyond the Threshold available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beyond the Threshold is the first book to seriously consider the interplay between traditional world religions and metaphysical experiences in exploring the timeless question of what happens when we die. Christopher M. Moreman examines and compares the beliefs and practices of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, as well as psychic phenomena such as mediums and near-death experiences. While ultimately the afterlife remains unknowable, Moreman's unique, in-depth exploration of both beliefs and experiences can help readers reach their own understanding of the afterlife and how to live.
