Seeing Things From Shakespeare to Pixar

'In these elegant essays, at once theatrical and philosophical, Alan Ackerman offers a probing meditation on sight and on the lingering mysteries of the invisible.' - Martin Puchner, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Harvard University and author of The Drama of Ideas: Platonic Provocations in Theater and Philosophy 'I was consistently engaged and fascinated by Alan Ackerman's outstanding book, Seeing Things. What is most exciting about this study is Ackerman's perceptions: through compelling intellectual inquiry, he takes the reader on a wonderful journey through his complex and inquisitive mind.' - David Krasner, Department of Performing Arts, Emerson College '… Alan Ackerman confronts us with the spectral question: to see or not to see? From Plato to Ibsen and Beckett to Disney Toy Story movies, you're asked to rehearse perception - philosophically, aesthetically, even metaphysically - in the mind's eye.' - Herbert Blau, Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor of the Humanities, University of Washington