The world at a glance

Prologue: Regaining the Glance Introduction: Taking in the World at a Glance Part One: Approximating to the Glance 1. Getting into the Glance 2. Gazing and Glancing 3. Coming Closer to the Glance 4. Being and Becoming Oriented by the Glance Part Two: Getting Intimate in the Glance 5. The Time of the Glance 6. The Singularity of the Glance 7. Attending and Glancing Part Three: Glancing Farther Afield 8. The Glance in Ancient Athens 9. The Sudden, The Surprising, and the Wondrous: With Walter Benjamin on the Streets of Paris Part Four: Praxis of the Glance 10. The Ethics of the Glance 11. Glancing at the Natural Environment 12. Glancing at the Image in Photography and Painting Epilogue: Limits and Powers of the Glance Afterword: Families of the Glance and the Gaze