Emmanuel Alloa is professor of philosophy at the University of Fribourg, where he holds the Chair for Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art. His books in English include Resistance of the Sensible World: An Introduction to Merleau-Ponty (2017), as well as a number of coedited volumes, including, most recently, Dynamis of the Image: Moving Images in a Global World (2020). He currently serves as president of the German Society of Aesthetics.Nils F. Schott is a lecturer in the Euro-American Program of the Collège universitaire de Sciences Po, Reims, and coeditor of, among other books, Love and Forgiveness for a More Just World (Columbia, 2015).Andrew Benjamin is distinguished professor of architectural theory at the University of Technology, Sydney, and emeritus professor of philosophy at Monash University Melbourne. His recent books include Art’s Philosophical Work (2015), Towards a Relational Ontology: Philosophy’s Other Possibility (2015), and Virtue in Being: Towards an Ethics of the Unconditioned (2017).

In this innovative, rich, and powerful book, Emmanuel Alloa brilliantly shows why images don’t represent the real, but let the real come into being.

• Preface to the English EditionIntroduction1. Between Thing and Sign: The Hubris of the Image2. Aristotle’s Foundation of a Media Theory of Appearing3. Forgetting Media: Traces of the Diaphanous from Themistius to Berkeley4. A Phenomenology of Images5. Media PhenomenologyConclusion: Seeing Through Images—for an Alternative Theory of MediaAfterword: Seeing Not Riddling, by Andrew BenjaminNotesBibliographyIndex

Emmanuel Alloa is professor of philosophy at the University of Fribourg, where he holds the Chair for Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art. His books in English include Resistance of the Sensible World: An Introduction to Merleau-Ponty (2017), as well as a number of coedited volumes, including, most recently, Dynamis of the Image: Moving Images in a Global World (2020). He currently serves as president of the German Society of Aesthetics.Nils F. Schott is a lecturer in the Euro-American Program of the Collège universitaire de Sciences Po, Reims, and coeditor of, among other books, Love and Forgiveness for a More Just World (Columbia, 2015).Andrew Benjamin is distinguished professor of architectural theory at the University of Technology, Sydney, and emeritus professor of philosophy at Monash University Melbourne. His recent books include Art’s Philosophical Work (2015), Towards a Relational Ontology: Philosophy’s Other Possibility (2015), and Virtue in Being: Towards an Ethics of the Unconditioned (2017).

In this innovative, rich, and powerful book, Emmanuel Alloa brilliantly shows why images don’t represent the real, but let the real come into being.

• Preface to the English EditionIntroduction1. Between Thing and Sign: The Hubris of the Image2. Aristotle’s Foundation of a Media Theory of Appearing3. Forgetting Media: Traces of the Diaphanous from Themistius to Berkeley4. A Phenomenology of Images5. Media PhenomenologyConclusion: Seeing Through Images—for an Alternative Theory of MediaAfterword: Seeing Not Riddling, by Andrew BenjaminNotesBibliographyIndex

Emmanuel Alloa is professor of philosophy at the University of Fribourg, where he holds the Chair for Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art. His books in English include Resistance of the Sensible World: An Introduction to Merleau-Ponty (2017), as well as a number of coedited volumes, including, most recently, Dynamis of the Image: Moving Images in a Global World (2020). He currently serves as president of the German Society of Aesthetics.Nils F. Schott is a lecturer in the Euro-American Program of the Collège universitaire de Sciences Po, Reims, and coeditor of, among other books, Love and Forgiveness for a More Just World (Columbia, 2015).Andrew Benjamin is distinguished professor of architectural theory at the University of Technology, Sydney, and emeritus professor of philosophy at Monash University Melbourne. His recent books include Art’s Philosophical Work (2015), Towards a Relational Ontology: Philosophy’s Other Possibility (2015), and Virtue in Being: Towards an Ethics of the Unconditioned (2017).

In this innovative, rich, and powerful book, Emmanuel Alloa brilliantly shows why images don’t represent the real, but let the real come into being.

• Preface to the English EditionIntroduction1. Between Thing and Sign: The Hubris of the Image2. Aristotle’s Foundation of a Media Theory of Appearing3. Forgetting Media: Traces of the Diaphanous from Themistius to Berkeley4. A Phenomenology of Images5. Media PhenomenologyConclusion: Seeing Through Images—for an Alternative Theory of MediaAfterword: Seeing Not Riddling, by Andrew BenjaminNotesBibliographyIndex