Camera Obscura : Of Ideology Hardback
by Sarah Kofman
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:112 pages
- Publisher:Cornell University Press
- Publication Date:10/12/1998
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- ISBN:9780801436413
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:112 pages
- Publisher:Cornell University Press
- Publication Date:10/12/1998
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- ISBN:9780801436413