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Camera Obscura: An Archeological Survey from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age

Camera Obscura: An Archeological Survey from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age

Straw, Will
Kofman, Sarah

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Philosophy

ISBN10: 0801436419
ISBN13: 9780801436413
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: Dec 10 1998
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Marx, Freud, Nietzsche--in vastly different ways all three employed the metaphor of the camera obscura in their work. In this classic book--at last available in an English translation--the distinguished French philosopher Sarah Kofman offers an extended reflection on this metaphor. She contrasts the mechanical function of the camera obscura as a kind of copy machine, rendering a mirror-image of the work, with its use in the writings of master thinkers. In her opening chapter on Marx, Kofman provides a reading of inversion as necessary to the ideological process. She then explores the metaphor of the camera obscura in Freud's description of the unconscious. For Nietzsche the camera obscura is a metaphor for forgetting. Kofman asks here whether the magical apparatus of the camera obscura, rather than bringing about clarity, serves some thinkers as fetish. Camera Obscura is a powerful discussion of a metaphor that dominates contemporary theory from philosophy to film.

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