Name: The Crossing of the Visible (Cultural Memory in the Present)
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Author: Jean-Luc Marion
ISBN: 9780804733922

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The Crossing of the Visible (Cultural Memory in the Present)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jean-Luc Marion

Translated by

James K. A. Smith

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Year

2003

Language

English

Pages

120

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.9 x 15.8 x 0.8 cm

Weight

0.15 kg.

ISBN

9780804733922

ISBN13

9780804733922

Synopsis "The Crossing of the Visible (Cultural Memory in the Present) "

Painting, according to Jean-Luc Marion, is a central topic of concern for philosophy, particularly phenomenology. For the question of painting is, at its heart, a question of visibility--of appearance. As such, the painting is a privileged case of the phenomenon; the painting becomes an index for investigating the conditions of appearance--or what Marion describes as "phenomenality" in general. In The Crossing of the Visible, Marion takes up just such a project. The natural outgrowth of his earlier reflections on icons, these four studies carefully consider the history of painting--from classical to contemporary--as a fund for phenomenological reflection on the conditions of (in)visibility. Ranging across artists from Raphael to Rothko, Caravaggio to Pollock, The Crossing of the Visible offers both a critique of contemporary accounts of the visual and a constructive alternative. According to Marion, the proper response to the "nihilism" of postmodernity is not iconoclasm, but rather a radically iconic account of the visual and the arts that opens them to the invisible.

Jean-Luc Marion

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Jean-Luc Marion nació en Meudon (Francia) en 1946. Ha sido profesor de filosofía en la Universidad de Poitiers, en Paris X - Nanterre y luego en La Sorbona, en la cátedra de filosofía ocupada anteriormente por Emmanuel Levinas. También ha enseñado en la Universidad de Chicago, donde sucedió a Paul Ricoeur. Entre las distinciones que ha recibido figuran diversos doctorados honoris causa. Desde 2008 es miembro de la Academia francesa. Entre sus numerosas publicaciones cabe destacar en castellano: Prolegómenos a la caridad (1993), El cruce de lo visible (2006), Siendo dado. Ensayo para una fenomenología de la donación (2008), Dios sin el ser (2010), y A decir verdad (2022).

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