Camera Obscura

Camera Obscura
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 120
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ISBN-10 : 0801485932
ISBN-13 : 9780801485930
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Book Synopsis Camera Obscura by : Sarah Kofman

Download or read book Camera Obscura written by Sarah Kofman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her opening chapter on Marx, Kofman provides a reading of inversion as necessary to the ideological process. She then explores the metaphor of the camera obscura in Freud's description of the unconscious. For Nietzsche the camera obscura in a "metaphor for forgetting," and it is neither the photographic nor the eye but the mind that constructs a preeminence of the perspectival. Kofman asks here whether the "magical apparatus" of the camera obscura, rather than bringing about clarity, serves some thinkers as fetish. She turns to Descartes for a final counter-example, that of the Cartesian camera obscura as a model of vision which neither disqualifies the eye as a model of knowledge nor sets up a perspectivist notion of perception.


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