Cinema, democracy and perfectionism

Joshua Foa Dienstag in dialogue
Herausgeber: Dienstag, Joshua Foa

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Produktbeschreibung

Joshua Foa Dienstag engages in a critical encounter with the work of Stanley Cavell on cinema, focusing skeptical attention on the claims made for the contribution of cinema to the ethical character of democratic life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781784994013
• ISBN-10: 1784994014
• Artikelnr.: 45344469

Autorenporträt

Joshua Foa Dienstag is Professor of Political Science and Professor of Law at University of California Los Angeles

Inhaltsangabe

Series editors' foreword Part I: Lead essay 1. The tragedy of remarriage: letter to M. Cavell about cinema (a remake)
Joshua Foa Dienstag Part II: Responses 2. Emancipated perfectionism
or, in praise of dreaming
Clare Woodford 3. The phenomenology of the political: a reply from Saturday Night to Mr. Dienstag
Tracy B. Strong 4. The tragedy of remarriage in the golden age of television
Margaret Kohn 5. 'That dangerous contention': a cinematic response to pessimism
Davide Panagia 6. Letter to Mr. Dienstag
Thomas Dumm Part III: Reply 7. A reply to my critics
Joshua Foa Dienstag Index