Wilhelm S. Wurzer is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh.

• INTRODUCTION Between the Visible and the Expressive: And In-visible Exchange, Wilhelm S. Wurzer PART ONE: POSTMODERN VISIONS 1. Rephrasing the Visible and the Expressive: Lyotard's 'Defense of the Eye' from Figure to Inarticulare Phrase, Anne Tomiche (University of Grenoble) 2. Visibility, "Bild" and "Einbildungskraft", Derrida, Barthes, Levinas, Ludwig Nagl (University of Vienna). 3. Puncturing Genres: Barthes and Derrida on the Limits of Representation, Dana Hollander (Michigan State University) PART TWO: BEYOND REPRESENTATIONAL THINKING Introduction... While Illustrating... 4. Blanchot's Gaze and Orpheus' Singing: Seeing and Listening in Poetic Inspiration, Alessandro Carrera (University of Texas). 5. Foucault and the Disappearance of the Visible Subject, Reginald Lilly (Skidmore College). PART THREE: EXPRESSIONS AND THE LIMITS OF PHILOSOPHY Introduction... Desire, Displacement, and Laughter... 6. Frames of Visibility: Si(gh)ting the Monstrous, Robert Burch (University of Alberta). 7. Francis Bacon, Logique de la sensation: The Philosopher's Painter, Zsuzsa Baross (Trent University, Canada). 8. Bataille's Erotic Displacement of Vision: Attempts at a Feminist Reading, Ladelle McWhorter (University of Richmond). 9. Luce Irigaray's Specular Mother: Lips in the Mirror, Lynne Huffer (Rice University). PART FOUR: FILMING THE (IN)VISIBLE Introduction... In Images Ending... 10. Expressionist Towers of Babel in Weimar Film and Architecture, Janet Lungstrum (University of Colorado). 11. Rewiring the Oedipal Scene: Image and Discursivity in Wim Wender's Journey 'Until the End of the World', Volker Kaiser & Robert S. Leventhal (University of Virginia). PART FIVE: CRITIQUES OF CONTEMPORARY IMAGE CULTURE Introduction... Beyond a Paradigm... 12. Imagism and the Ends of Vision: Pound and Salomon, Lisa Zucker. 13. Mediums of Freedom in Photographic Frames: Some Exposuires of Bound Transcendence, James R. Watson (Loyola University). EPILOGUE: The Paradox of Philosophy's Gaze (before & after Sept. 11), Wilhelm S. Wurzer.