| The Philosopher's Gaze |
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
| I— FORESHADOWINGS |
| • | Outside the Text: Thoughts on a Painting by Chardin |
| • | Blindness, Violence, Compassion? |
| • | Minima Moralia |
| II— INTRODUCTION |
| • | The Discursive Construction of the Philosophical Gaze |
| The Importance of Phenomenology |
| III— THE PHILOSOPHERS |
| 1— Descartes's Window |
| 2— Husserl's Transcendental Gaze: Controlling Unruly Metaphors |
| 3— The Glasses on Our Nose: Wittgenstein's Optics and the Illusions of Philosophy |
| 4— Gestalt Gestell Geviert: The Way of the Lighting |
| 5— The Field of Vision: Intersections of the Visible and the Invisible in Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty |
| 6— Outside the Subject: Merleau-Ponty's Chiasmic Vision |
| 7— The Invisible Face of Humanity: Levinas on the Justice of the Gaze |
| 8— Justice in the Seer's Eyes: Benjamin and Heidegger on a Vision Out of Time and Memory |
| 9— Shadows: Reflections on the Enlightenment and Modernity |
| 10— Where the Beauty of Truth Lies |
| Notes |
| INDEX OF NAMES |