Presence : philosophy, history, and cultural theory for the twenty-first century /

The philosophy of "presence" seeks to challenge current understandings of meaning and understanding. One can trace its origins back to Vico, Dilthey, and Heidegger, though its more immediate exponents include Jean-Luc Nancy, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, and such contemporary philosophers of hist...

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Other Authors: Ghosh, Ranjan (Editor), Kleinberg, Ethan, 1967- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Presence in absentia / Ethan Kleinberg
  • Be here now : mimesis and the history of representation / Vincent P. Pecora
  • Meaning, truth, and phenomenology / Mark Bevir
  • Of photographs, puns and presence / Susan Crane
  • The public rendition of images médusées : exhibiting souvenir photographs taken at lynchings in America / Roger I. Simon
  • The presence of immigrants, or, why Mexicans and Arabs look alike / John Michael
  • Transcultural presence / Bill Ashcroft
  • It disturbs me with a presence : Hindu history and what meaning cannot convey / Ranjan Ghosh
  • The presence and conceptualization of contemporary protesting crowds / Suman Gupta.