Seeing Berger: A Revaluation of Ways of Seeing

by Peter Fuller

Book by Fuller, Peter

40 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1981

Reviews

[James Payne · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didn't get anything out of this. I wanted a thorough, intelligent critique of Berger; Fuller's book instead just wishes that Ways of Seeing was some other book that it is not. A much more boring book, I should add. Fuller states that Ways of Seeing is a polemic, then later asks why Berger didn't flesh out a political argument with a materialist one. He didn't because it's a political polemic. Isn't that obvious? I actually don't know why this was written besides Ways of Seeing being a publishing phenomenon and this being a piggyback. And the appendix is just a summarizing book review. Very confusing package here.

[Mark Holsworth · Rating 3 out of 5]

A sympathetic critique of John Berger's Ways of Seeing, Fuller points out the gap in Berger's materialism and suggests that it needs to go deeper than an economic model to biological materialism.