Overview

This book shows how and why debates in the philosophy of film can be advanced through the study of the role of images in Plato’s dialogues, and, conversely, why Plato studies stands to benefit from a consideration of recent debates in the philosophy of film. Contributions range from a reading of Phaedo as a ghost story to thinking about climate change documentaries through Plato’s account of pleonexia. They suggest how philosophical aesthetics can be reoriented by attending anew to Plato’s deployment of images, particularly images that move. They also show how Plato’s deployment of images is integral to his practice as a literary artist. Contributors are Shai Biderman, David Calhoun, Michael Forest, Jorge Tomas Garcia, Abraham Jacob Greenstine, Paul A. Kottman, Danielle A. Layne, David McNeill, Erik W. Schmidt, Timothy Secret, Adrian Switzer, and Michael Weinman.

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Author:   Shai Biderman ,  Michael Weinman
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   332
Weight:   0.573kg
ISBN:  

9789004398108

ISBN 10:   9004398104
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   13 June 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Shai Biderman and Michael Weinman Part 1: From Plato to the Moving Image: Reorienting Film-Philosophy 1 Accounting for Images in the Sophist  Abraham Jacob Greenstine 2 Pseudos, Kalos and Eikōs Mythos in Plato and Film  Danielle A. Layne and Erik W. Schmidt 3 Dead Ringers: Plato and Turning the Camera Back  Timothy Secret 4 The Cinematic Image as Platonic Simulacrum  Jorge Tomas Garcia 5 The Myth of Er as Rationalizing Recording Device  Michael Weinman Part 2: From the Moving Image to Plato: Reorienting Plato Studies 6 Learning to Notice: Light and Shadow, from Chauvet Cave to Plato’s Cave and Beyond  Paul A. Kottman 7 Phaedo: a Ghost Story  David McNeill 8 Fascism Re-performed: Benjaminian Mimesis, Platonic Methexis and Bertolucci’s The Conformist  Adrian Switzer 9 Entranced by the Spectacle of Truth: Wonder and Ascent in Plato and Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups and To the Wonder  David H. Calhoun 10 Plato, Pleonexia and Environmental Documentaries  Michael Forest 11 Truth, Reality and Fiction in the Documentary of Errol Morris: Refiguring ‘Platonism’ in Epistemology and Aesthetics  Shai Biderman Index

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Shai Biderman, Ph.D. (2012), Boston University, teaches Philosophy and Film at Tel Aviv University and Beit-Berl College, Israel. He has co-edited The Philosophy of David Lynch (UPK, 2011) and Kafka and the Moving Image (CUP, 2016) and published many articles on philosophy of film. Michael Weinman, Ph.D. (2005), New School for Social Research, is Professor of Philosophy at Bard College Berlin. He has published three books, most recently The Parthenon and Liberal Education (SUNY Press, 2018), and many articles on Greek philosophy and political philosophy.

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