Plato and the Moving Image

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39810-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 332, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Philosophy of Film

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Biderman, Shai

Weinman, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.