Hagi Kenaan: 2 books
The Present Personal
Philosophy and the Hidden Face of Language
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2005
Is philosophy deaf to the sound of the personal voice? While philosophy is experienced at admiring, resenting, celebrating, and, at times, renouncing language, philosophers have rarely succeeded in being intimate with it. Hagi Kenaan argues that philosophy's concern with abstract forms of linguistic...
The Ethics of Visuality
Levinas and the Contemporary Gaze
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Our world is saturated with images. Images multiply around us, having reached the status of essentially reproducible commodities. Overwhelmed by this proliferation of visual stimuli, our gaze becomes increasingly bored and distracted. Do we ever really read and engage with images? Can they ever provide...