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Page xxix
... nature of the visual process as a continuous whole rather than break it up into distinct and identifiable parts . Enclosed vision , on the other hand , designates the obverse of such ideas : a neutralizing , passive , discon- tinuous ...
... nature of the visual process as a continuous whole rather than break it up into distinct and identifiable parts . Enclosed vision , on the other hand , designates the obverse of such ideas : a neutralizing , passive , discon- tinuous ...
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... nature of sight . 1 The term ' visuality , ' according to standard usage in modern theory , reflects an assumption that sight is culturally and historically contingent , and that it is therefore very difficult to speak in historical ...
... nature of sight . 1 The term ' visuality , ' according to standard usage in modern theory , reflects an assumption that sight is culturally and historically contingent , and that it is therefore very difficult to speak in historical ...
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... nature of vision in the Timaeus . His version of extramission theory , whose logic will exert a considerable influence on Western thought about the eye from Augustine to Shakespeare , establishes a crucial set of assumptions about the ...
... nature of vision in the Timaeus . His version of extramission theory , whose logic will exert a considerable influence on Western thought about the eye from Augustine to Shakespeare , establishes a crucial set of assumptions about the ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | iii |
THE DARK LANTERN | 45 |
THE REFORMED EYE | 107 |
Copyright | |
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