Born in 1944 in New York City, Martin Jay is one of the foremost contemporary intellectual historians. Of particular focus in Jay’s scholarship are Socialism, Marxism, Post-Structuralism, Postmodernism, and Visual Culture Studies in Continental intellectual history. One of his many notable books, Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in 20th Century French Thought focuses on the “ocular centric” characteristics of critical theory dating from the Greeks through Modernism and addresses the shortcomings of French thought in consideration of visual perception.
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