The Philosopher's Gaze

Modernity in the Shadows of Enlightenment

By: David Michael Levin

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Hardcover | 8 November 1999 | Edition Number 1

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David Michael Levin's ongoing exploration of the moral character and enlightenment-potential of vision takes a new direction in The Philosopher's Gaze. Levin examines texts by Descartes, Husserl, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas, using our culturally dominant mode of perception and the philosophical discourse it has generated as the site for his critical reflections on the moral culture in which we are living.

In Levin's view, all these philosophers attempted to understand, one way or another, the distinctive pathologies of the modern age. But every one also attempted to envision-if only through the faintest of traces, traces of mutual recognition, traces of another way of looking and seeing-the prospects for a radically different lifeworld. The world, after all, inevitably reflects back to us the character, the reach and range, of our vision.

In these provocative essays, the author draws on the language of hermeneutical phenomenology and at the same time refines phenomenology itself as a method of working with our experience and thinking critically about the culture in which we live.

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"[The reader] will find that Levin is saying something very direct and very powerful: Western philosophy needs a more explicit moral dimension."--"The Phillipian

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Acknowledgments
Foreshadowings
Outside the Text: Thoughts on a Painting by Chardin	p. 3
Blindness, Violence, Compassion?	p. 4
Minima Moralia	p. 6
Introduction
The Discursive Construction of the Philosophical Gaze	p. 11
The Importance of Phenomenology	p. 19
The Philosophers
Descartes's Window	p. 29
Husserl's Transcendental Gaze: Controlling Unruly Metaphors	p. 60
The Glasses on Our Nose: Wittgenstein's Optics and the Illusions of Philosophy	p. 94
Gestalt Gestell Geviert: The Way of the Lighting	p. 116
The Field of Vision: Intersections of the Visible and the Invisible in Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty	p. 170
Outside the Subject: Merleau-Ponty's Chiasmic Vision	p. 216
The Invisible Face of Humanity: Levinas on the Justice of the Gaze	p. 234
Justice in the Seer's Eyes: Benjamin and Heidegger on a Vision out of Time and Memory	p. 336
Shadows: Reflections on the Enlightenment and Modernity	p. 408
Where the Beauty of Truth Lies	p. 419
Notes	p. 435
Index of Names	p. 491
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