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A Film-Philosophy of Ecology and Enlightenment

Author : Rupert Read
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429947739
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book A Film-Philosophy of Ecology and Enlightenment written by Rupert Read and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the philosophy of Wittgenstein and his idea that the purpose of real philosophical thinking is not to discover something new, but to show in a strikingly different light what is already there, this book provides philosophical readings of a number of ‘arthouse’ and Hollywood films. Each chapter contains a discussion of two films—one explored in greater detail and the other analyzed as a minor key which reveals the possibility for the book's ideas to be applied across different films, registers, and genres. The readings are not only interpretive, but they offer a way of thinking and feeling about, with, and through films which is genuinely transformative. Rupert Read’s main contention is that certain films can bring about a change in how we see the world. He advocates an ecological approach to film-philosophy analysis, arguing that film can re-shape the viewer’s relationship to the environment and other living beings. The transformative 'wake-up call' of these films is enlightenment in its true sense. The result is a book that ambitiously aims to change, though film, how we think of ourselves and our place in the world, at a time when such change is more needed than ever before.

A Film-philosophy of Ecology and Enlightenment

Author : Rupert J. Read
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780429488047
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book A Film-philosophy of Ecology and Enlightenment written by Rupert J. Read and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inspired by the philosophy of Wittgenstein and his idea that the purpose of real philosophical thinking is not to discover something new, but to show in a strikingly different light what is already there, this book provides philosophical readings of a number of 'arthouse' and Hollywood films. Each chapter contains a discussion of two films--one explored in greater detail and the other analyzed as a minor key which reveals the possibility for the book's ideas to be applied across different films, registers, and genres. The readings are not only interpretive, but they offer a way of thinking and feeling about, with, and through films which is genuinely transformative. Rupert Read's main contention is that certain films can bring about a change in how we see the world. He advocates an ecological approach to film-philosophy analysis, arguing that film can re-shape the viewer's relationship to the environment and other living beings. The transformative 'wake-up call' of these films is enlightenment in its true sense. The result is a book that ambitiously aims to change, though film, how we think of ourselves and our place in the world, at a time when such change is more needed than ever before"--

Philosophy of Film Without Theory

Author : Craig Fox
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031136543
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Film Without Theory written by Craig Fox and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-19 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the long-standing presumption that serious philosophical engagement with film and television must be theoretical. It demonstrates, by example, how philosophy of film and film studies can move beyond the methodological assumption that understands philosophical to mean theoretical. In seventeen specially commissioned essays, one in-depth interview, and one reprint, leading philosophers and film scholars exploit the approaches, arguments, and insights of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell, Iris Murdoch, Augustine, Berys Gaut, Noël Carroll, and Ordinary Language Philosophy, in exploring, amongst others, Gravity, Lone Star, The Handmaid’s Tale, Le notti di Cabiria, Dunkirk, L'Année dernière à Marienbad, Visitors, The Night it Rained, Philadelphia Story, Shoah, Mary Magdalene, Psycho, Blue Jasmine, Three Colours: Red, War Games, and Histoire(s) du Cinéma. In so doing, this collection argues for the power of theory-free philosophy and film studies as a way to expand our humanistic understanding.

Philosophy and Film

Author : Christina Rawls
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429787138
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and Film written by Christina Rawls and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects twenty original essays on the philosophy of film. It uniquely brings together scholars working across a range of philosophical traditions and academic disciplines to broaden and advance debates on film and philosophy. The book includes contributions from a number of prominent philosophers of film including Noël Carroll, Chris Falzon, Deborah Knight, Paisley Livingston, Robert Sinnerbrink, Malcolm Turvey, and Thomas Wartenberg. While the topics explored by the contributors are diverse, there are a number of thematic threads that connect them. Overall, the book seeks to bridge analytic and continental approaches to philosophy of film in fruitful ways. Moving to the individual essays, the first two sections offer novel takes on the philosophical value and the nature of film. The next section focuses on the film-as-philosophy debate. Section IV covers cinematic experience, while Section V includes interpretations of individual films that touch on questions of artificial intelligence, race and film, and cinema’s biopolitical potential. Finally, the last section proposes new avenues for future research on the moving image beyond film. This book will appeal to a broad range of scholars working in film studies, theory, and philosophy.

A Critical Companion to Mel Gibson

Author : Adam Barkman
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1666937746
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book A Critical Companion to Mel Gibson written by Adam Barkman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The thirteen essays in this book offer various interpretations of Mel Gibson's work, treating this brilliant but controversial figure not only as a filmmaker but as a historian, religious thinker, and social philosopher"--

Wittgenstein’s Liberatory Philosophy

Author : Rupert Read
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100028882X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein’s Liberatory Philosophy written by Rupert Read and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Rupert Read offers the first outline of a resolute reading, following the highly influential New Wittgenstein ‘school’, of the Philosophical Investigations. He argues that the key to understanding Wittgenstein’s later philosophy is to understand its liberatory purport. Read contends that a resolute reading coincides in its fundaments with what, building on ideas in the later Gordon Baker, he calls a liberatory reading. Liberatory philosophy is philosophy that can liberate the user from compulsive (and destructive) patterns of thought, freeing one for possibilities that were previously obscured. Such liberation is our prime goal in philosophy. This book consists in a sequential reading, along these lines, of what Read considers the most important and controversial passages in the Philosophical Investigations: 1, 16, 43, 95 & 116 & 122, 130–3, 149–151, 186, 198–201, 217, and 284–6. Read claims that this liberatory conception is simultaneously an ethical conception. The PI should be considered a work of ethics in that its central concern becomes our relation with others. Wittgensteinian liberations challenge widespread assumptions about how we allegedly are independent of and separate from others. Wittgenstein’s Liberatory Philosophy will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Wittgenstein, and to scholars of the political philosophy of liberation and the ethics of relation.

Facing Up to Climate Reality: Honesty, Disaster and Hope

Author : John Foster
Publisher : London Publishing Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1907994939
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Facing Up to Climate Reality: Honesty, Disaster and Hope written by John Foster and published by London Publishing Partnership. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are used to hearing that the climate crisis is serious, but still tractable if we start acting on it soon. The reality is different. Things are going to get much worse, for a long time, whatever we now do – though hardly anyone wants to admit it. This book from the Green House collective offers climate honesty. The time for focusing primarily on mitigation is over. We now need to adapt to the dark reality of climate breakdown. But this means a deep reframing of our entire way of life. The book explores how transformative adaptation might enable us to confront escalating climate chaos while not giving up hope. Facing up to Climate Reality is a book for those brave enough to abandon the illusion of continuing normality, and embark on a harder, truer journey.

Reasons and Empty Persons: Mind, Metaphysics, and Morality

Author : Christian Coseru
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303113995X
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Reasons and Empty Persons: Mind, Metaphysics, and Morality written by Christian Coseru and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-22 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for his groundbreaking and influential work in Buddhist philosophy, Mark Siderits is the pioneer of “fusion” or “confluence philosophy", a boldly systematic approach to doing philosophy premised on the idea that rational reconstruction of positions in one tradition in light of another can sometimes help address perennial problems and often lead to new and valuable insights. Exemplifying the many virtues of the confluence approach, this collection of essays covers all core areas of Buddhist philosophy, as well as topics and disputes in contemporary Western philosophy relevant to its study. They consider in particular the ways in which questions concerning personal identity figure in debates about agency, cognition, causality, ontological foundations, foundational truths, and moral cultivation. Most of these essays engage Siderits’ work directly, building on his pathbreaking ideas and interpretations. Many deal with issues that have become a common staple in philosophical engagements with traditions outside the West. Their variety and breadth bear testimony to the legacy of Siderits’ impact in shaping the contemporary conversation in Buddhist philosophy and its reverberations in mainstream philosophy, giving readers a clear sense of the remarkable scope of his work.

Philosophy in the Condition of Modernism

Author : Ana Falcato
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319770780
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy in the Condition of Modernism written by Ana Falcato and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Produced on the fringes of philosophy and literary criticism, this book is a pioneering study which aims to explicitly address and thematize what may be called a “critical philosophy in the condition of modernism”. Its most important and original contribution to both disciplines is a self-conscious reflection on possible modes of writing philosophy today, and a systematic comparison with what happened in literary modernism at the beginning of the twentieth-century. The volume is divided into six sections, where internationally renowned scholars discuss such pressing topics as the role of an unreliable narrator in a major philosophical treatise, the different mediums of art-production and how these impact on our perception of the Work itself, the role of narrative in animal ethics and the filmic adaption of a Modernist classic.

Environment and Philosophy

Author : Emily Brady
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134760310
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Environment and Philosophy written by Emily Brady and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-26 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environment and Philosophy provides an accessible introduction to the radical challenges that environmentalism poses to concepts that have become almost second nature in the modern world. These include: * the ideas of science and objectivity * the conventional placement of the human being within the environment * the individualism of convential Modern thought Written in an accessible way for those without a background in philosophy, this text examines ways of thinking about ourselves, nature and our relationship with nature. It offers an introduction to the phenomenological perspective on environmental issues, and also to the questions of what natural beauty is.

The Art of Czech Animation

Author : Adam Whybray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350104647
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Czech Animation written by Adam Whybray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Czech Animation is the first comprehensive English language account of Czech animation from the 1920s to the present, covering both 2D animation forms and CGI, with a focus upon the stop-motion films of Jirí Trnka, Hermína Týrlová, Jan Švankmajer and Jirí Barta. Stop-motion is a highly embodied form of animation and The Art of Czech Animation develops a new materialist approach to studying these films. Instead of imposing top-down Film Theory onto its case studies, the book's analysis is built up from close readings of the films themselves, with particular attention given to their non-human objects. In a time of environmental crisis, the unique way Czech animated films use allegory to de-centre the human world and give a voice to non-human aspects of the natural world points us towards a means by which culture can increase ecological awareness in viewers. Such a refutation of a human-centred view of the world was contrary to communist orthodoxy and it remains so under late-stage consumer-capitalism. As such, these films do not only offer beautiful examples of allegory, but stand as models of political dissent. The Art of Czech Animation is a unique endeavour of film philosophy to provide a materialist appraisal of a heretofore neglected strand of Central-Eastern European cinema.

A Philosophy of the Art School

Author : Michael Newall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429869975
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book A Philosophy of the Art School written by Michael Newall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Winner of the American Society for Aesthetics 2019 Outstanding Monograph Prize* Until now, research on art schools has been largely occupied with the facts of particular schools and teachers. This book presents a philosophical account of the underlying practices and ideas that have come to shape contemporary art school teaching in the UK, US and Europe. It analyses two models that, hidden beneath the diversity of contemporary artist training, have come to dominate art schools. The first of these is essentially an old approach: a training guided by the artistic values of a single artist-teacher. The second dates from the 1960s, and is based around the group crit, in which diverse voices contribute to an artist’s development. Understanding the underlying principles and possibilities of these two models, which sit together in an uneasy tension, gives new insights into the character of contemporary art school teaching, demonstrating how art schools shape art and artists, how they can be a potent engine of creativity in contemporary culture and how they contribute to artistic research. A Philosophy of the Art School draws on first-hand accounts of art school teaching, and is deeply informed by disciplines ranging from art history and art theory, to the philosophy of art, education and creativity.

Deep Adaptation

Author : Jem Bendell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509546855
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Deep Adaptation written by Jem Bendell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Deep adaptation’ refers to the personal and collective changes that might help us to prepare for – and live with – a climate-influenced breakdown or collapse of our societies. It is a framework for responding to the terrifying realization of increasing disruption by committing ourselves to reducing suffering while saving more of society and the natural world. This is the first book to show how professionals across different sectors are beginning to incorporate the acceptance of likely or unfolding societal breakdown into their work and lives. They do not assume that our current economic, social and political systems can be made resilient in the face of climate change but, instead, they demonstrate the caring and creative ways that people are responding to the most difficult realization with which humanity may ever have to come to terms. Edited by the originator of the concept of deep adaptation, Jem Bendell, and a leading climate activist and strategist, Rupert Read, this book is the essential introduction to the concept, practice and emerging global movement of Deep Adaptation to climate chaos.

Radically Rethinking Copyright in the Arts

Author : James O. Young
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000179354
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Radically Rethinking Copyright in the Arts written by James O. Young and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book radically rethinks the philosophical basis of copyright in the arts. The author reflects on the ontology of art to argue that current copyright laws cannot be justified. The book begins by identifying two problems that result from current copyright laws: (1) creativity is restricted and (2) they primarily serve the interests of large corporations over those of the artists and general public. Against this background, the author presents an account of the ontology of artworks and explains what metaphysics can tell us about ownership in the arts. Next, he makes a moral argument that copyright terms should be shorter and that corporations should not own copyrights. The remaining chapters tackle questions regarding the appropriation of tokens of artworks, pattern types, and artistic elements. The result is a sweeping reinterpretation of copyright in the arts that rests on sound ontological and moral foundations. Radically Rethinking Copyright in the Arts will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in aesthetics and philosophy of art, metaphysics, philosophy of law, and intellectual property law.

Why Climate Breakdown Matters

Author : Rupert Read
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350212032
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Why Climate Breakdown Matters written by Rupert Read and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change and the destruction of the earth is the most urgent issue of our time. We are hurtling towards the end of civilisation as we know it. With an unflinching honest approach, Rupert Read asks us to face up to the fate of the planet. This is a book for anyone who wants their philosophy to deal with reality and their climate concern to be more than a displacement activity. As people come together to mourn the loss of the planet, we have the opportunity to create a grounded, hopeful response. This meaningful hopefulness looks to the new communities created around climate activism. Together, our collective mourning enables us to become human in ways previously unknown. Why Climate Breakdown Matters is a practical guide on how to be a radical, responsible climate activist.

Being Posthuman

Author : Zahi Zalloua
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350151106
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Being Posthuman written by Zahi Zalloua and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Posthumanism is both a descriptive and a prescriptive term. Firstly, it registers a shift beginning in the late 1960s and epitomized by Foucault's “the death of Man”. Secondly, it refers to the future and a new relationship with the non-human, along with a different understanding of human exceptionalism. In Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future, Zahi Zalloua interrogates this future and shows that “post-” does not necessarily mean 'after' or that what comes after is more advanced than what has gone before. He pursues this line of inquiry across four distinct, yet interrelated, figures: cyborgs, animals, objects, and racialized and excluded 'others'. These figures disrupt the narrative of the 'human' and its singularity and by reading them together, Zalloua determines that it is only when posthumanist discourse is combined with psychoanalysis that subjectivity can be properly examined.

Parents for a Future

Author : Rupert Read
Publisher : Boiler House Press
ISBN 13 : 1913861112
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (138 download)

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Download or read book Parents for a Future written by Rupert Read and published by Boiler House Press. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That our ecological future appears grave can no longer come as any surprise. And yet we have so far failed, collectively and individually, to begin the kind of action necessary to shift our path away from catastrophic climate collapse. In this stark and startling little book, Rupert Read helps us to understand the direness of our predicament while showing us a metaphor and a method a way of thinking by which we might transform it. From the relatively uncontroversial starting point that we love our own children, we are introduced to a logic of care that iterates far into the future: in caring for our own children, we are committed to caring for the whole of human future; in caring for the whole of human future, we are committed to caring for the future of the natural world. Out of such thinking, hope emerges. As Read demonstrates in this urgent call to action, accepting that we care for our own offspring commits us to a struggle on behalf of us all.