ISBN:
9781501310973
Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 335 S
,
Ill
Year of publication:
2016
Series Statement:
Thinking media
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Schmerheim, Philipp, 1979 - Skepticism films
DDC:
791.4301
Keywords:
Skepticism in motion pictures
;
Knowledge, Theory of, in motion pictures
;
Motion pictures Philosophy
;
Film
;
Realitätsbezug
;
Täuschung
Abstract:
"A study of how contemporary cinema and film-philosophers explore radical skepticism about our knowledge of the world"--
Abstract:
"A study of how contemporary cinema and film-philosophers explore radical skepticism about our knowledge of the world"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Machine generated contents note:List of figuresAcknowledgements1. Introduction: Skepticism Films. A Certain Tendency in Contemporary CinemaPart I: Thinking Through Cinema2. Films as Configurations of Philosophical Thought3. Remediating Philosophy, or: The Media of Philosophical ThoughtPart II: Skepticism in Film Philosophy4. Varieties of Philosophical Skepticism: Knowledge, Acknowledgement, and Trust5. A Moving Image of Skepticism? Philosophy's Acknowledgement of Film6. A Cinema for Believers. Trust, Belief, and the Expulsion from the Paradise of ChildhoodPart III: Skepticism Films7. Varieties of Skepticism Films8. Tools for Philosophical Film Analysis9. (Not) Knowing My World: External World Skepticism Films10. Not Knowing My Self, or: Being One's Own Evil Deceiver11. Coda. From Doubt to Acknowledgement, or: The Philosophical Significance of Skepticism Films revisitedBibliography and FilmographyIndex.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
