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Product Description: Now available in English for the first time, The Visibility of the Image explores the development of an influential aesthetic tradition through the work of six figures. Analysing their contribution to the progress of formal aesthetics, from its origins in Germany in the 1880s to semiotic interpretations in America a century later, the six chapters cover:Robert Zimmermann (1824-1898), the first to separate aesthetics and metaphysics and approach aesthetics along the lines of formal logic, providing a purely syntactic way of using signs, regardless of objective content;Alois Riegl (1858-1905), who went on to further develop aesthetics on the model of formal logic, creating a theory of style in response to Zimmermann's call for an aesthetics oriented toward formal logic; Heinrich Wölfflin (1864-1945), who represents a step toward an understanding of consciousness by using pictures as cognitive tools; Konrad Fiedler (1841-1895), the Saxon philosopher who considered the possibility that some kinds of images are made and viewed not for what they show, but for their visibility's sake alone;Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), responsible for taking up the connections between the problems of reducing the range of potential meanings and contexts of a given image down to just the picture surface; Charles William Morris (1901-1979), who set out to establish whether a picture with no objective reference, such as an abstract painting, still counts as a sign, and if so, in what sense...read more
By Nancy Ann Roth (trans)

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9781474232647 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, September 22, 2016, cover price $112.00 | About this edition: Now available in English for the first time, The Visibility of the Image explores the development of an influential aesthetic tradition through the work of six figures.

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9781780937595 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, October 23, 2014, cover price $120.00

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9781474275323 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 21, 2016, cover price $39.95

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Throughout his career, the influential new media theorist Vilém Flusser kept the idea of gesture in mind: that people express their being in the world through a sweeping range of movements. He reconsiders familiar actions—from speaking and painting to smoking and telephoning—in terms of particular movement, opening a surprising new perspective on the ways we share and preserve meaning. A gesture may or may not be linked to specialized apparatus, though its form crucially affects the person who makes it.These essays, published here as a collection in English for the first time, were written over roughly a half century and reflect both an eclectic array of interests and a durable commitment to phenomenological thought. Defining gesture as “a movement of the body or of a tool attached to the body for which there is no satisfactory causal explanation,” Flusser moves around the topic from diverse points of view, angles, and distances: at times he zooms in on a modest, ordinary movement such as taking a photograph, shaving, or listening to music; at others, he pulls back to look at something as vast and varied as human “making,” embracing everything from the fashioning of simple tools to mass manufacturing. But whatever the gesture, Flusser analyzes it as the expression of a particular form of consciousness, that is, as a particular relationship between the world and the one who gestures.
By Nancy Ann Roth (trans)

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9780816691272 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, June 1, 2014, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Throughout his career, the influential new media theorist Vilém Flusser kept the idea of gesture in mind: that people express their being in the world through a sweeping range of movements.

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9780816691289 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, July 4, 2014, cover price $20.00

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Product Description: Poised between hope and despair for a humanity facing an urgent communication crisis, this work by Vilém Flusser forecasts either the first truly human, infinitely creative society in history or a society of unbearable, oppressive sameness, locked in a pattern it cannot change...read more
By Nancy Ann Roth (trans)

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9780816670208 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, February 25, 2011, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Poised between hope and despair for a humanity facing an urgent communication crisis, this work by Vilém Flusser forecasts either the first truly human, infinitely creative society in history or a society of unbearable, oppressive sameness, locked in a pattern it cannot change.

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9780816670215 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, February 24, 2011, cover price $20.00

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Product Description: In Does Writing Have a Future?, a remarkably perceptive work first published in German in 1987, Vilém Flusser asks what will happen to thought and communication as written communication gives way, inevitably, to digital expression...read more
By Nancy Ann Roth (trans)

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9780816670222 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, February 24, 2011, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: In Does Writing Have a Future?

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9780816670239 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, February 24, 2011, cover price $20.00

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