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These collected studies on the philosophy of the image offer the fundamental insight that images alone make the artificial presence of things possible. Images present things as exclusively visible, released from the laws of physics. Taking this idea as his point of departure, Wiesing provides an overview of the fundamental positions in contemporary image studies. He describes the use of images as signs from a phenomenological perspective, reconstructs Plato's concept of mimesis by way of the canon of images it presupposes, and demonstrates the special relevance of extreme types of images-- virtual reality, desktop windows, or abstract photography--for the philosophical labor of the concept of the image.
Nils F Schott
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Nils F. Schott is an academic translator and editor.
With Alexandre Lefebvre, he is the co-editor of three books: Henri Bergson's lectures on Freedom at the Collège de France (Bloomsbury, 2024); a collection of essays, Interpreting Bergson: Critical Essays (Cambridge University Press, 2019); and a translation of Vladimir Jankélévitch's Henri Bergson (Duke University Press, 2015). With Hent de Vries, he edited Love and Forgiveness for a More Just World (Columbia University Press, 2015).
He has translated more than twenty books in philosophy and related fields, including, for Edinburgh University Press, Deleuze's Philosophy of Law by Laurent de Sutter.
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