Weigel Grammatology of Images

A History of the A-Visible
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5315-0017-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Reihe: Commonalities

Grammatology of Images radically alters how we approach images by asking after imaging as such. How does something a-visible get transformed into an image? The book illuminates fascinating, unexpected correspondences between premodern and contemporary image-practices, between religion and science, and between things that are and are not understood as art.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weigel, Sigrid

Weitere Mitwirkende

Smith, Chadwick Truscott

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Note to the English-Language Edition vii

List of Figures ix

Introduction: Toward a Grammatology of Images 1

1 The Trace and the Current Revaluation of Lines 15

2 Faces: Between Trace and Image, Encoding and Measurement 43

3 Indexical Images: Trace, Resemblance, and Code 84

4 Effigies: Double, Representation, and the Supplementary Economy of the Likeness (Ebenbild) 101

5 Defamatory Images: Disfiguration in Physiognomy and Caricature’s Two Bodies 118

6 Cult Images: Iconoclastic Controversy, the Desire for Images, and the Dialectic of Secularization 170

7 Angels: Images of Making-Appearance between Religion, Art, and Science 202

8 Perspectives of the Grammatology of Images beyond Visual Culture 264

Notes 275

Bibliography 319

Index 347

Über Autor(innen)

Weigel Sigrid:
Sigrid Weigel is former director of Zentrum für Literatur-und Kulturforschung in Berlin and has taught at numerous universities in the United States and elsewhere around the world. She has published on literature, philosophy, cultural history, image theory, memory, secularization, genealogy, and the cultural history of sciences across numerous books in German and English, including Walter Benjamin: Images, the Creaturely, and the Holy (Stanford, 2013).Sigrid Weigel (Author)
Sigrid Weigel is former director of Zentrum für Literatur-und Kulturforschung in Berlin and has taught at numerous universities in the United States and elsewhere around the world. She has published on literature, philosophy, cultural history, image theory, memory, secularization, genealogy, and the cultural history of sciences across numerous books in German and English, including Walter Benjamin: Images, the Creaturely, and the Holy (Stanford, 2013).