Artificial Presence: Philosophical Studies in Image Theory - Hardcover

by Lambert Wiesing (Author), Nils F. Schott (Translator)

These phenomenological studies on the philosophy of the image review contemporary image theory while defending the fundamental insight that images alone make the artificial presence of things possible.

Author Biography

Lambert Wiesing is Professor of Comparative Picture Theory and Phenomenology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany. His most recent book is Die Sichtbarkeit des Bildes (2008).