Véronique M. Fóti is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Penn State at University Park.

"Fóti is one of the few commentators whose knowledge ranges widely across the history of philosophy. The scholarship and interpretive care in this book are superb. Fóti offers provocative readings of Plato's treatment of sensuous being, particularly in the Phaedrus. Her chapter on Velásquez is an excellent example of philosophical art criticism; her critique of Foucault is also quite trenchant. Fóti offers a fresh appreciation of Merleau-Ponty, and her analysis of Heidegger's notion of Besinnung invites a real rethinking of the meaning of art in reflections on the visible and the invisible. By concentrating on how the visible and the invisible vex philosophy's traditional categories and priorities, Fóti develops ways of thinking outside technology, mastery, and representation." — Julie R. Klein, Villanova University

• Acknowledgments Prospect PART I. GREEK PHILOSOPHY 1. Glimpsing Alterity and Differentiation: Vision and the Heraclitean Logos 2. Beauty, Eros, and Blindness in the Platonic Education of Vision PART II. THE LEGACY OF DESCARTES 3. Mechanism, Reasoning, and the Institution of Nature 4. The Specularity of Representation: Foucault, Velázquez, Descartes PART III. POST-PHENOMENOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES 5. The Gravity and (In)Visibility of Flesh: Merleau-Ponty, Nancy, Derrida 6. Imaging Invisibles: Heidegger's Meditation Retrospect Notes Selected Bibliography Index of Persons Index of Topics