{"product_id":"camera-obscura-sarah-kofman-9780801436413","title":"Camera Obscura: An Archeological Survey from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarx, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Kofman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801436419\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801436413\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/10\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d","brand":"Sarah Kofman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48153117196543,"sku":"9780801436413","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d89b4566-1398-4130-9421-44b383ce2ab8.jpg?v=1770781402","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/camera-obscura-sarah-kofman-9780801436413","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}