| Edition |
University of Chicago Press ed. |
| Description |
xiv, 268 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Reprint. Originally published: San Francisco : North Point Press, 1984. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The thought of movies -- The politics of interpretation (Politics as opposed to what?) -- Coriolanus and interpretations of politics ("Who does the wolf love?") -- A cover letter to Moliere's Misanthrope -- On Makavejev on Bergman -- A replay to John Hollander -- Foreword to Jay Cantor's The space between -- North by northwest -- What becomes of things on film? -- The ordinary as the uneventful (A note on the Annales historians) -- Existentialism and analytical philospohy -- The fact of television. |
| Summary |
In the first essay of this book, Stanley Cavell characterizes philosophy as a "willingness to think not about something other than what ordinary human beings think about, but rather to learn to think undistractedly about things that ordinary human beings cannot help thinking about, or anyway cannot help having occur to them, sometimes in fantasy, sometimes as a flash across a landscape." Fantasies of film and television and literature, flashes across the landscape of literary theory, philosophical discourse, and French historiography give Cavell his starting points in these twelve essays. Here is philosophy in and out of "school," understood as a discipline in itself or thought through the works of Shakespeare, Molïre, Kierkegaard, Thoreau, Brecht, Makavejev, Bergman, Hitchcock, Astaire, and Keaton. -- Publisher's website. |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy.
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Drama.
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Criticism.
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Criticism. (OCoLC)fst00883735
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Drama. (OCoLC)fst00897468
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst01027348
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Philosophy, Modern. (OCoLC)fst01061071
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Filosofie.
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Literatuurcritici.
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
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Drama.
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| ISBN |
0226097889 |
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9780226097886 |
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