{"product_id":"camera-obscura-an-archeological-survey-from-the-paleolithic-to-the-iron-age-9780801436413","title":"Camera Obscura: An Archeological Survey from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sarah Kofman | Will Straw\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Surveys - Modern\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47614607949975,"sku":"9780801436413","price":16480.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780801436413.webp?v=1775094931","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/camera-obscura-an-archeological-survey-from-the-paleolithic-to-the-iron-age-9780801436413","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}