The Visibility of the Image
I am pleased to be the translator of this, the second edition of Lambert Wiesing’s Die Sichtbarkeit des Bildes. The book, first published in 1996, draws on the history of formal aesthetics to present an...
Tagged: phenomenology
Flusser and Habits
Flusser uses the word “habit” [Gewohnheit] almost exclusively to mean something that is not conscious, something that in fact obscures or inhibits conscious reflection. He frequently referred to habits as “veils,” obscuring possibilities of...
Luxury
Luxus — Luxury — is the title of Lambert Wiesing’s most recent book, published by Surkamp in August this year. I’ve translated the introduction, which proposes that that luxury is not a quality inherent...
Now in Paperback!
Bloomsbury Academic has decided to reprint Lambert Wiesings’s The Philosophy of Perception: Phenomenology and Image Theory (my translation) in paperback–it’s available for pre-order now (see link on the right side of this page). It’s...
Imagining
Yesterday I read about a phenomenologist’s effort to position imagination with respect to other cognitive functions. The argument was that although imagination is thin, which I think means fragile or fleeting, it is autonomous,...
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...