“Before it was the metaphor for objective knowledge, as with Rousseau, or of perspectivist knowledge, as in Marx and Nietzsche, or of the unconscious, as in Freud, the camera obscura was a technical apparatus which served as a model for vision. Each thinker uses the metaphor of the camera obscura to illustrate their theories. In her 1973 work, Camera Obscura of Ideology, the French philosopher, Sarah Kofman, synthesizes the common denominator of Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud. Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke on Race, Writing, and Friendship.Kenneth Burke on Reading for Identification.
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