Enacting Images. Representation Revisited

Enacting Images is devoted to images as they can mobilize cognition and theorizing. Though we can speak of a pictorial turn now that images have become a distinct and full-fledged topic of investigation, some may continue to cling to the impression that images should still be considered within a fundamentally representationalist framework. As an alternative, the enactive approach provides a conceptual setup within which images, beyond their informational, immersive, and aesthetical power, can be considered as being the manifestations of a new epistemic access to the world. The present volume is a collection of essays that reflectively investigate the theoretical prerequisites, scope, and limits of enactive approach.

Zsuzsanna Kondor, 1966, is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of, of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her main fields of research are the history of philosophy, philosophy of communication, embodied cognition, enactive approach, and the philosophy of images. Her publications include Embedded Thinking: Multimedia and the New Rationality, 2008; Perception and Depiction in the Light of Embodiment. In: Heinrich, R.; Nemeth, E.; Pichler, W. (eds.): Image and Imaging in Philosophy, Science, and the Arts, 2010; World Picture and Beyond - Representation Revisited. In: Nyíri, K.; Benedek, A. (eds.): Images in Language. Metaphors and Metamorphoses, 2011.

Zsuzsanna Kondor Preface István Danka How to Do Things with Perception: Enactivism and Pictorial Representation Zsuzsanna Balogh; János T?zsér Much Ado about Nothing: The Discarded Representations Revisited Zsuzsanna Kondor Images of Perception, Ways of Depiction Olga Kiss Visual Representation in Mathematical Thinking Roberto Casati; Valeria Giardino Public Representations and Indeterminacies of Perspectival Content Notes on Contributors Index