Experiences of the Gaze in Thomas Hettcheʼs Pfaueninsel

  • Andrea Leskovec Universität Ljubljana, Philosophische Fakultät (Slowenien)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/RFAL.56373
Keywords: Thomas Hettche, Pfaueninsel, Ethical Gaze, Perception of the Other, Visual Orders.

Abstract

One of our primal experiences is the constructing and fragmenting of the self through the gaze of the other. In Western civilization this notion has been taking shape since the time of Socrates’ determining, classifying and judging gaze. Bound to intention, a gaze is an instrumentalized viewing, an objectifying of the other, and it therefore functions as an act of narcissistic (self)satisfaction. To experience a gaze is, ultimately, to experience violence. Thomas Hettcheʼs Pfaueninsel offers an alternative, which will be discussed in the context of phenomenological theory of perception (Lévinas, Merleau-Ponty, Waldenfels).

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Leskovec A. (2017). Experiences of the Gaze in Thomas Hettcheʼs Pfaueninsel. Revista de Filología Alemana, 25, 157-179. https://doi.org/10.5209/RFAL.56373
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Vol. 25 (2017)
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Articles. Literary Studies

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