Nancy and Visual Culture

Carrie Giunta

ISBN 10: 147442581X / ISBN 13: 9781474425810

Published by Edinburgh University Press, GB, 2017

About this Item

These 12 essays reanimate the dialogue between interdisciplinary scholars and practicing artists that originally gave birth to visual culture as a field of study. A new translation of Nancy's essay, 'The Image: Mimesis and Methexis', reveals how Nancy's work informs, challenges and inspires our encounters with visual culture.

Seller Inventory # LU-9781474425810

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nancy and Visual Culture
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, GB
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147442581X
• ISBN 13: 9781474425810
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In an exciting range of original responses to Nancy’s work, these 12 essays reanimate the dialogue between interdisciplinary scholars and practicing artists that originally gave birth to visual culture as a field of study.  A new translation of Nancy’s essay, 'The Image: Mimesis and Methexis', reveals how Nancy’s work informs, challenges and inspires our encounters with visual culture.

About the Authors

Carrie Giunta is a freelance writer and visiting research fellow at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Dundee, Scotland. Giunta’s writing has been published in Radical Philosophy, teleSUR English and The Directory of World Cinema (Intellect Books). Her recent publications include a chapter entitled “Community in Fragments: Reading Relation in the Fragments of Heraclitus” in the edited collection Global Community? Transnational and Transdisciplinary Exchanges (Rowman & Littlefield).

Adrienne Janus is Maitre de Conferences at the Universite Francois Rabelais, Tours, where she works across the areas of theatre and performance studies, English and Comparative Literature.