Genealogy and Ontology of the Western Image and its Digital Future

Author:   John Lechte (Macquarie University, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Volume:   No. 3
ISBN:  

9780415887151


Pages:   216
Publication Date:   03 April 2012
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   John Lechte (Macquarie University, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   No. 3
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9780415887151


ISBN 10:   0415887151
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   03 April 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction: ‘Genealogy’, ‘Ontology’, ‘Western Image’ and the ‘Digital’ Part 1:Genealogy and Ontology (Paradigms) 1. The Image in Plato and the Greek World 2. The Byzantine Image 3. The Renaissance Image 4. Transparency and Opacity: The Image in Rousseau, Diderot, Hume and Kant 5. The Industrial Image Part 2:The Image in Photography and Cinema and its Digital Future 6. Some Fallacies and Truths Concerning the Image in Old and New Media 7. Barthes and Benjamin on the Photographic Image and Time 8. The Image and Beauty in Relation to Visual Digital Art 9. The Time-Image

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`Setting himself an ambitious task, John Lechte has strategically compressed the ontology of what he calls `the western image' into this reasonably small book. And, as might be expected, substantial terrain is covered in order to arrive at the image's digital future.' - Mark Guglielmetti, Philosophy of Photography


'Setting himself an ambitious task, John Lechte has strategically compressed the ontology of what he calls 'the western image' into this reasonably small book. And, as might be expected, substantial terrain is covered in order to arrive at the image's digital future.' - Mark Guglielmetti, Philosophy of Photography


‘Setting himself an ambitious task, John Lechte has strategically compressed the ontology of what he calls ‘the western image’ into this reasonably small book. And, as might be expected, substantial terrain is covered in order to arrive at the image’s digital future.’– Mark Guglielmetti, Philosophy of Photography


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John Lechte is professor in Sociology at Macquarie University, Sydney, where he teaches and researches in social and European cultural theory. He has published widely on issues relating to the image and the arts and is well known for his books on Julia Kristeva and his widely acclaimed Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers.

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