Vision in context : historical and contemporary perspectives on sight

Image (Philosophy), Vision., Gaze.
1. Vision in Context: Reflections and Refractions / Martin Jay -- 2. Refracting Classical Vision: Changing Cultures of Viewing / Simon Goldhill -- 3. Sight and Vision in Medieval Christian Thought / Janet Martin Soskice -- 4. The Wit of the Letter: Holbein's Lacan / Tom Conley -- 5. The Visibility of Visuality / Peter de Bolla -- 6. "Authentic Tidings of Invisible Things": Vision and the Invisible in the Later Nineteenth Century / Gillian Beer -- 7. Division of the Gaze, or, Remarks on the Color and Tenor of Contemporary "Theory" / Stephen Melville -- 8. Imaginary Identity: Space, Gender, Nation / Helga Geyer-Ryan -- 9. Illuminating Passion: Irigaray's Transfiguration of Night / Cathryn Vasseleu -- 10. The Gaze in the Closet / Mieke Bal -- 11. The Gaze of Inversion: The Lesbian as Visionary / Renee C. Hoogland -- 12. The Homosocial Gaze According to Ian McEwan's The Comfort of Strangers / Ernst van Alphen -- 13. "Other's Others": Spectatorship and Difference / Irit Rogoff. 14. "Father, Can't You See I'm Filming?" / Parveen Adams -- 15. "The Contexts of Vision" from a Specific Standpoint / Teresa Brennan.