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Seeing as Practice

Philosophical Investigations into the Relation Between Sight and Insight

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Authors:
  1. Eva Schuermann

    1. Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

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  • Offers the first ?fully developed theory of perceptual practice in the field of visual culture
  • Contributes to a variety of fields including philosophy, film, visual culture and media studies, art history and performance studies
  • Explains a rich and multi-layered cultural practice as a performative process

Part of the book series: Performance Philosophy (PPH)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Why Seeing is a Practice

    • Eva Schuermann
    Pages 1-16

  3. Why Seeing is a Problem

    • Eva Schuermann
    Pages 17-44

  4. The Practice of Seeing

    • Eva Schuermann
    Pages 45-76

  5. The Performativity of Practice

    • Eva Schuermann
    Pages 77-99

  6. In Seeing Beyond Seeing

    • Eva Schuermann
    Pages 101-119

  7. The Constructions of Imagination

    • Eva Schuermann
    Pages 121-142

  8. Aesthetic and Ethical World Disclosure

    • Eva Schuermann
    Pages 143-153

  9. Seeing Each Other

    • Eva Schuermann
    Pages 155-172

  10. Seeing Art

    • Eva Schuermann
    Pages 173-204

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 205-209
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About this book

This study provides an overview of philosophical questions relating to sight and vision. It discusses the intertwinement of seeing and ways of seeing against the background of an entirely different theoretical framework.


Seeing is both a proven means of acquiring information and a personality-specific way of disclosing the apparent, perceptible world, conditioned by individual and cultural variations. In a peculiar way, the eye holds a middle position between inside and outside of the self and its relations towards itself and others. This book provides a way out of false alternatives by offering a third way with reference to concrete cases of aesthetical and ethical experiences. It will be of particular interest to scholars of the phenomenology and philosophy of perception and it will be valuable to students of philosophy, cultural studies and art.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

    Eva Schuermann

About the author

Eva Schuermann is Professor of Cultural Philosophy at the University of Magdeburg, Germany. She was awarded a prize for notable contributions in art, culture and the humanities by the Aby-Warburg-Foundation, and is co-editor of the Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie. Her publications include Vorstellen und Darstellen (2018) and  ‘Law as the Art of Picturing a Case’ in Law and the Arts (2017).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Seeing as Practice

  • Book Subtitle: Philosophical Investigations into the Relation Between Sight and Insight

  • Authors: Eva Schuermann

  • Series Title: Performance Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14507-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14506-4Published: 19 December 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14509-5Published: 18 December 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14507-1Published: 02 December 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2947-5589

  • Series E-ISSN: 2057-7176

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 209

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Performing Arts, Epistemology, Phenomenology, Continental Philosophy, Aesthetics

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