The articles in
Phenomenology and the Metaphysics of Sight explore the uses and resonances of the paradigm of sight across the phenomenological tradition, with particular reference to the works of Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty. The axes of this investigation are the phenomenological readings of the notion of sight in ancient Greek philosophy, the ways in which phenomenology leads us beyond the primacy of sight, and the rivalry between the paradigm of sight and those of touch and hearing. The aim of this collection is to demonstrate that the use of the paradigm of sight pervades phenomenology and partially explains both the development of its self-criticism and its view on the history of philosophy.
Antonio Cimino, Ph.D. (2007), University of Pisa, is Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at Radboud University. He has published monographs and many articles on phenomenology, including
Phänomenologie und Vollzug. Heideggers performative Philosophie des faktischen Lebens (Klostermann, 2013).
Pavlos Kontos, Ph.D. (1995), University of Louvain, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Patras. His publications include:
D’une phénoménologie de la perception chez Heidegger (Kluwer, 1996),
L’action morale chez Aristote (PUF, 2002), and
Aristotle’s Moral Realism Reconsidered(Routledge, 2011).
The Contributors
Introduction
Part I: Plato, Aristotle, and Vision
Chapter 1: Towards a Genealogy of the Metaphysics of Sight: Seeing, Hearing, and Thinking in Heraclitus and Parmenides,
Jussi Backman Chapter 2: The Extent of Visibility,
John Sallis Chapter 3: Seeing and Being Seen in Plato: The Logic of Image and Original and the Platonic Phenomenology Behind It,
Burt C. Hopkins Chapter 4: On Touch and Life in the De Anima,
Christopher P. Long Part II: Visual Perception and Beyond
Chapter 5: Beyond the Innocence of the Painter’s Eye,
Pavlos Kontos Chapter 6: Voyance: On Merleau-Ponty’s Processual Conception of Vision,
Luca Vanzago Chapter 7: Seeing the Invisible: Jean-Luc Marion’s Path from Husserl to Saint Paul,
Claudio Tarditi Part III: Rival Paradigms
Chapter 8: The Use and Abuse of Vision,
Michael Inwood Chapter 9: In the Shadow of Light: Listening, the Practical Turn of Phenomenology, and Metaphysics of Sight,
David Espinet Chapter 10: Seeing the Truth and Living in the Truth: Optical Paradigms of Truth and Pauline Countermodels,
Antonio Cimino Chapter 11: Self-Touch and the Perception of the Other,
James Mensch
All interested in phenomenology and continental philosophy, and anyone concerned with the history of metaphysics.