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Camera Obscura

Sarah Kofman

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  • 112 sidor
  • 1998
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.
  • Författare: Sarah Kofman
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780801485930
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 112
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1998-12-01
  • Översättare: Will Straw
  • Förlag: Cornell University Press