Description: Further DetailsTitle: Camera ObscuraCondition: NewSubtitle: Of IdeologyISBN-10: 0801485932EAN: 9780801485930ISBN: 9780801485930Publisher: Cornell University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 12/17/1998Description: Marx, Freud, Nietzsche—in vastly different ways all three employed the metaphor of the camera obscura in their work. In this classic book—at last available in an English translation—the distinguished French philosopher Sarah Kofman offers an extended reflection on this metaphor. She contrasts the mechanical function of the camera obscura as a kind of copy machine, rendering a mirror-image of the work, with its use in the writings of master thinkers. 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 is a "metaphor for forgetting." Kofman asks here whether the "magical apparatus" of the camera obscura, rather than bringing about clarity, serves some thinkers as fetish. Camera Obscura is a powerful discussion of a metaphor that dominates contemporary theory from philosophy to film.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 140mmItem Length: 203mmItem Weight: 170gAuthor: Sarah KofmanGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityTranslator: Will StrawContributor: Will Straw (Translated by)Release Year: 1998 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Camera Obscura
Title: Camera Obscura
Subtitle: Of Ideology
ISBN-10: 0801485932
EAN: 9780801485930
ISBN: 9780801485930
Release Date: 12/17/1998
Release Year: 1998
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Translator: Will Straw
Contributor: Will Straw (Translated by)
Book Title: Camera Obscura : of Ideology
Number of Pages: 112 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Year: 1998
Item Height: 0.4 in
Topic: Women Authors, European / French, General, Aesthetics
Genre: Literary Criticism, Philosophy
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Item Length: 5.5 in
Author: Sarah Kofman
Item Width: 8.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
