Seeing as Practice Philosophical Investigations into the Relation Between Sight and Insight /

• Main Author: Schuermann, Eva (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Performance Philosophy
• Subjects: Performing arts.; Epistemology.; Phenomenology .; Continental Philosophy.; Aesthetics.; Performing Arts.; Phenomenology.

This study provides an overview of philosophical questions relating to sight and vision. It discusses the intertwinement of seeing and ways of seeing against the background of an entirely different theoretical framework. Seeing is both a proven means of acquiring information and a personality-specif...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: why seeing is a practice
• 2. The practice of seeing
• 3. The performativity of practice
• 4. In seeing, beyond seeing
• 5. The constructions of imagination.-6. Aesthetic and ethical world disclosure
• 7. Seeing each other
• 8. Seeing art.