<p>"No other book brings together so many disciplinary fields, object domains, and historical periods in a consistently reasoned analytical overview that convincingly demonstrates the impossibility of any absolutistic generalisation. Between universalism and relativism, both untenable and damaging, Alloa succeeds in synthesizing what cannot be isolated, without unduly lumping together so many different aspects of visual experience. “Perspective”, usually considered subjectivist, and “sharing” as an appeal to community, are patiently led into a lively conversation, with philosophers and visual analysts, artists and students bringing in their different views. History and contemporaneity, also, are shown to be compatible, even in need of each other, so that conceptions that kept transforming throughout the centuries retain, not in stability but in movement, their relevance for the turbulent world of today. The itinerary through this amazingly rich treasure of knowledge and insight constantly stays captivating, for us today, eager to understand what we see better."</p><p><b>Mieke Bal</b>, <i>co-founder of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)</i></p><p>“Overcoming the alternative between universalism et relativism, Emmanuel Alloa makes a strong case for perspectivism and for singularity. Prepare for a philosophical, historical and artistical dive.”</p><p><b>Nicolas-Xavier Ferrand</b>,<i> La vie des idées, Collège de France</i></p><p>“This praise of perspective as a "sharing of the sensible" (Jacques Rancière), leads Alloa, equipped with the tools of phenomenology and social anthropology, to a long journey through the history of thought, architecture of thought, architecture, painting architecture, painting and the visual arts.”</p><p><b>Robert Maggiori</b>, <i>Libération</i></p><p>“A powerful plea why sharing viewpoints matters today.”</p><p><b>David Zerbib</b>,<i> Le Monde</i></p>