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Bildwissenschaft, the image between sign and perception (K. Sachs-Hombach)

Abstract

"A general science of the image has not (yet) succeeded in establishing itself" (I, §1). In view of this observation, Sachs-Hombach assumes that it would be possible - and necessary - to define a "common theoretical framework" and an "integrative research programme" for the various disciplines concerned by the general science of the image. "By theoretical framework, I mean a set of formulas that summarize the common assumptions of different theories" (I, §3). In other words, the work of defining the theoretical framework implies that we must emerge from the common, not in the sense of an overhanging metatheory that would identify the "constitutive conditions" of specific/particular theories, but in the sense of a cartographic description of the places where these theories intersect - considered from the point of view of their content (i. e. essentially: from the point of view of the conceptual means used). The basic conceptual tools must be described and explained, but also legitimized (this would be the philosophical task of a critical study by the Bildwissenschaft). Of course, the difficulty lies in the fact that there is a wide variety of image concepts (you must be able to take them into account), as well as a multitude of disciplinary modes of access to the iconic experience. The theoretical framework must be able to include all phenomena related to the image - and therefore can only be resolved by general characteristics. Mapping "fundamental concepts" is the philosophical task "par excellence" and makes it possible to orient oneself adequately in a field: to see what conceptual instruments are available and to which potential problems they are attached. By "philosophy" , we do not understand an established discipline but a systematic task that all science carries within it (and that several agents can of course endorse, regardless of their disciplinary training). And the question that needs to be asked first (i.e.: to ask again, to maintain, to relaunch): What is an iconic image / representation (representation by image)? (I, §6), what types of objects meet the minimum defining conditions of the image? What types of experience define the limits of what can be called the iconic experience? Once the contours are drawn, the map continues to offer us an infinite number of possible positions between which we can move.

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