![]() ![]() ![]() The few who get inducted into the IBHOF, however, have taken themselves into the most elite of categories. Article contentįighters who make it to the most elite levels, up to and including world champions, usually have some special skill such as the tremendous punching power of a Julian Jackson, the amazing boxing ability of ‘Sugar’ Ray Robinson or the mental game of Aaron Pryor. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. For the battle is fought to be won, and it is this that happens if you lose.” Then Jean de Rye, an aged Knight of Burgundy, who had been sore-wounded in the fight, rode up to the group of young knights and said “Are ye maidens with your downcast eyes? Look well upon it. They held themselves apart from the others who were cutting down the prisoners at my Lord’s orders, for the prisoners were a body too numerous to be guarded by those of us who were left. Some could not look up on it, and some could not speak. “There were young knights among them who had never been present at a stricken field. ( John Brewer/Oneida Dispatch via AP) Article content Join the conversation From left to right, International Boxing Hall of Fame Class of 2019 inductees : Teddy Atlas, Don Elbaum, Lee Samuels, Julian Jackson, Donald Curry, Tony DeMarco, Guy Jutras and Buddy McGirt display their IBHOF rings during the induction ceremony Sunday, June 9, 2019, in Canastota, N.Y.Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.expands the vision of cultural studies by providing a new account of how critical theory can extend (rather than denounce) the Enlightenment and a new example of how synthetic intellectual history can contribute to (rather than impede) well-informed critical thinking. is an extremely important intellectual event." - October "Everyone who wants to teach twentieth-century thought should own this book." - Journal of Modern History " . Many of Jay's sources are canonical texts, and these he works into a persuasive synthesis." - Times Literary Supplement "The scholarship displayed in this book is dazzling. Jay's magisterial history is essential reading for anyone trying to bring the intellectual life o f the twentieth century into focus." - Artforum "Jay's exploration of twentieth-century French attitudes to the visual is an impressive and scrupulously documented work. The most powerful effect of Jay's study is to convey how beliefs about the eye and 'the gaze' (as Sartre called the objectifying vision of strangers) found coherent views about human self-understanding and political analysis. Refusing, however, to defend the dominant visual order, he calls instead for a plurality of "scopic regimes." Certain to generate controversy and discussion throughout the humanities and social sciences, Downcast Eyes will consolidate Jay's reputation as one of today's premier cultural and intellectual historians. His book examines the myriad links between the interrogation of vision and the pervasive antihumanist, antimodernist, and counter-enlightenment tenor of much recent French thought. From consideration of French Impressionism to analysis of Georges Bataille and the Surrealists, Roland Barthes's writings on photography, and the film theory of Christian Metz, Jay provides lucid and fair-minded accounts of thinkers and ideas widely known for their difficulty. Jay begins with a discussion of the theory of vision from Plato to Descartes, then considers its role in the French Enlightenment before turning to its status in the culture of modernity. ![]() Martin Jay turns to this discourse surrounding vision and explores its often contradictory implications in the work of such influential figures as Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, Guy Debord, Luce Irigaray, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida. They have also criticized its supposed complicity with political and social oppression through the promulgation of spectacle and surveillance. These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged its allegedly superior capacity to provide access to the world. Long considered "the noblest of the senses," vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. ![]()
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