The Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium Presents:
Hagi Kenaan
Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University
"What Makes an Image Ethical?"
When: February 27, 2012
Time: 7:00-9:00PM
Location: Communications 150 (Studio C)
Hagi Kenaan (Ph.D, Yale University 1995) is senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University. He specializes in continental philosophy, phenomenology, and the philosophy of art. In addition to authoring studies of Husserl, Heidgger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Derrida, he is the author of The Present Personal: Philosophy and the Hidden Face of Language (Columbia University Press, 2005) and most recently, Emmanuel Levinas: Ethics as an Optics (Tel Aviv, 2008), which explores the contribution of the ethical thinking of Levinas to our understanding of the visual.
Presented by: Arts Division, Film & Digital Media, and History of Art & Visual Culture
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