The Philosophy of Perception: Phenomenology and Image TheoryLambert Wiesing's The Philosophy of Perception challenges current theories of perception. Instead of attempting to understand how a subject perceives the world, Wiesing starts by taking perception to be real. He then asks what this reality means for a subject. In his original approach, the question of how human perception is possible is displaced by questions about what perception obliges us to be and do. He argues that perception requires us to be embodied, to be visible, and to continually participate in the public and physical world we perceive. Only in looking at images, he proposes, can we achieve something like a break in participation, a temporary respite from this, one of perception's relentless demands. Wiesing's methods chart a markedly new path in contemporary perception theory. In addition to identifying common ground among diverse philosophical positions, he identifies how his own, phenomenological approach differs from those of many other philosophers, past and present. As part of the argument, he provides a succinct but comprehensive survey of the philosophy of images His original critical exposition presents scholars of phenomenology, perception and aesthetics with a new, important understanding of the old phenomenon, the human being in the world. |
Contents
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Philosophy without a Model | 43 |
3 The Me of Perception | 69 |
4 The Pause in Participation | 131 |
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Other editions - View all
The Philosophy of Perception: Phenomenology and Image Theory Lambert Wiesing No preview available - 2016 |
The Philosophy of Perception: Phenomenology and Image Theory Lambert Wiesing No preview available - 2014 |
Common terms and phrases
accusation of myth act of interpretation appears argument assumption aware becomes being-in-the-world believe Cartesian causal claim concerned conditions of possibility consciousness consequences contemporary philosophy Descartes described differentiation doubt eidetic variation empirical empiristic enology enthymeme epoché exactly existence experience of perception explain fact fantasy forms of intuition fundamentum inconcussum given human Husserl idea image object image perception imagine immersive imposition intentional intentional object intentionality interpretationism Kant language look material world means mediate mental metaphor necessarily object of perception one’s own experience ontological paradigm perceived thing perceived world perceiving subject person phenom phenomenal knowledge phenomenological phenomenon Philosophy of Mind philosophy of perception position present primacy of perception principle priori problem protreptic question reality of perception reason relation relationship representationism rudder blade sceptical scientific models seen sense situation someone spatial spectator stomach pain structures thinkable thinking transcendental aesthetics unconscious understanding viewer visible Wilfrid Sellars