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The ground of the image

If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. Mistrusted by philosophy, forbidden and embraced by religions, manipulated as?spectacle? and proliferated in the media, images never cease to present their multiple aspects, their paradoxes, their flat but receding spaces. What is this power that lies in the depths and recesses of an image?which is always only an impenetrable surface? What secrets are concealed in the ground or in the.

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  • "If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. Mistrusted by philosophy, forbidden and embraced by religions, manipulated as?spectacle? and proliferated in the media, images never cease to present their multiple aspects, their paradoxes, their flat but receding spaces. What is this power that lies in the depths and recesses of an image?which is always only an impenetrable surface? What secrets are concealed in the ground or in the."@en
  • "If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. Mistrusted by philosophy, forbidden and embraced by religions, manipulated as ?spectacle? and proliferated in the media, images never cease to present their multiple aspects, their paradoxes, their flat but receding spaces.What is this power that lies in the depths and recesses of an image?which is always only an impenetrable surface? What secrets are concealed in the ground or in the."
  • "If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. In this collection of writings on images and visual art, the author explores this through an extraordinary range of references."
  • "If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. Mistrusted by philosophy, forbidden and embraced by religions, manipulated as spectacleand proliferated in the media, images never cease to present their multiple aspects, their paradoxes, their flat but receding spaces.What is this power that lies in the depths and recesses of an image-which is always only an impenetrable surface? What secrets are concealed in the ground or in the figures of an image-which never does anything but show just exactly what it is and nothing else? How does the immanence of images open onto their unimaginable others, their imageless origin?In this collection of writings on images and visual art, Jean-Luc Nancy explores such questions through an extraordinary range of references. From Renaissance painting and landscape to photography and video, from the image of Roman death masks to the language of silent film, from Cleopatra to Kant and Heidegger, Nancy pursues a reflection on visuality that goes far beyond the many disciplines with which it intersects. He offers insights into the religious, cultural, political, art historical, and philosophical aspects of the visual relation, treating such vexed problems as the connection between image and violence, the sacred status of images, and, in a profound and important essay, the forbidden representation of the Shoah. In the background of all these investigations lies a preoccupation with finitude, the unsettling forces envisaged by the images that confront us, the limits that bind us to them, the death that stares back at us from their frozen traits and distant intimacies.In these vibrant and complex essays, a central figure in European philosophy continues to work through some of the most important questions of our time. Jean-Luc Nancy is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Universit Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. The most recent of his many books to be published in English are A Finite Thinking and Multiple Arts. Jeff Fort has translated works by authors such as Jean Genet, Maurice Blanchot, and Jacques Derrida. He is currently a lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley."
  • "Les images font l'objet d'une déconsidération permanente et aussi intense que leur prolifération polymorphe. C'est une vieille affaire de l'Occident : méfiance pour les apparences, les reflets, les " idoles ", le " spectacle " et l'" illustration ", confiance dans le logos, le verbe, le sérieux du sens contre le brillant du chromo ou le plasma de l'écran. Mais cette rage iconoclaste, qu'affectionnent ou qu'affectent souvent les " intellectuels ", a son secret revers iconodoule. Car, avec la superficialité de l'image, on dénonce aussi son pouvoir abusif : belle contradiction qu'on enjambe avec insouciance. D'où l'image tire-t-elle la puissance que sa surface irradie ? D'un fond inimaginable : de ce fond d'absence à jamais retirée dont l'imago des morts romains formait la présence imposante et vénérable. Toujours, du fond des images, la mort nous dévisage ; la mort, c'est-à-dire notre immortalité."

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  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Livres électroniques"

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  • "Au Fond des images"
  • "The ground of the image"@en
  • "The ground of the image"
  • "The Ground of the Image"
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  • "Au fond des images"

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