The Ethics of Visuality : Levinas and the Conte. Kenaan**

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Explore the profound relationship between ethics and visual perception in 'The Ethics of Visuality: Levinas and the Contemporary Gaze' by Hagi Kenaan. This book delves into how our modern, image-saturated world affects our engagement with visuals, posing crucial questions about meaningfulness. Kenaan expertly examines Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy, particularly his concept of the 'Other,' to reveal how a new form of 'optics' can guide ethical living in contemporary society. Discover how Levinas's nuanced view on the visual, often seen as critical, actually offers a radical perspective on visual meaning where aesthetics and ethics are intrinsically linked. Key Features: * Explores Levinas's philosophy in relation to contemporary visual culture. * Offers a novel interpretation of 'Ethics is an optics'. * Connects the philosophy of the human face to 'Otherness'. * Develops a radical theory of visual meaning. Summary: This paperback book, written in English by Hagi Kenaan, is a first edition exploring Levinas's philosophy of the visual. It is 176 pages long and published by I.B. Tauris, with ISBN 9781780765167. Dimensions are 216 mm width and 138 mm height. Originally released on 30/05/2013.