Plato and the Moving Image
Published on 13. June 2019
Book
Hardback
276 pages
978-90-04-39810-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-39810-8 (9789004398108)
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Persons
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.
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.
Content
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 Eikos 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
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 Eikos 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