Tagged: Lambert Wiesing

The Visibility of the Image

Professor Lambert Wiesing (shown here with students at the University of Jena, Germany)  wrote Die Sichtbarkeit des Bildes [The Visibility of the Image] quite some time ago.  It was first published in 1996!  The...

Just out from Bloomsbury!

Phenomenology, I think, is what makes Lambert Wiesing’s The Philosophy of Perception so startling.  The book turns perception upside down.  He’s saying, roughly, that perception determines and controls us, rather than the other way around.  The...

Protreptic Writing

Lambert_Wiesing’s book, The Philosophy of Perception (forthcoming from Bloomsbury this August–my translation) contains–among many fine things–a resolution to the question, “How do phenomenologists speak–or write–without appearing to persuade?”  Protreptic writing does not argue a...