The Share of Perspective

This book is a defence of perspectivism in the age of post-truth. At the crossroads of science, art and philosophy, it unearths a tradition that we must rediscover: the point of view is not only what divides, it is also what is shared.

Emmanuel Alloa is Professor of Philosophy and Chair for Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at the University of Fribourg. His books in English include Resistance of the Sensible World: An Introduction to Merleau-Ponty (2017) and Looking Through Images: A Phenomenology of Visual Media (2021). He currently serves as President of the German Society of Aesthetics.

Foreword Martin Jay Preface to the English Edition 1. Shared Perspectives 2. The Threat of Perspectives: Plato's Image Theory 3. Florence, 1425: The Mirror Stage of Painting 4. Robert Smithson, at Lost Sight 5. Can Perspective Be a Symbolic Form? Revisiting Panofsky with Cassirer Conclusion: In Praise of the Plural: For a New Perspectivism