Plato and the moving image /

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 o...

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Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019.

Series: Value Inquiry Book Series 332.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390898.

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Call Number: PN1995 .P515 2019

Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Acknowledgements
  • Illustrations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction /
  • Shai Biderman and Michael Weinman
  • From Plato to the Moving Image: Reorienting Film-Philosophy
  • Accounting for Images in the Sophist /
  • Abraham Jacob Greenstine
  • Pseudos, Kalos and Eikōs Mythos in Plato and Film /
  • Danielle A. Layne and Erik W. Schmidt
  • Dead Ringers: Plato and Turning the Camera Back /
  • Timothy Secret
  • The Cinematic Image as Platonic Simulacrum /
  • Jorge Tomas Garcia
  • The Myth of Er as Rationalizing Recording Device /
  • Michael Weinman
  • From the Moving Image to Plato: Reorienting Plato Studies
  • Learning to Notice: Light and Shadow, from Chauvet Cave to Plato's Cave and Beyond /
  • Paul A. Kottman
  • Phaedo: a Ghost Story /
  • David N. McNeill
  • Fascism Re-performed: Benjaminian Mimesis, Platonic Methexis and Bertolucci's The Conformist /
  • Adrian Switzer
  • 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
  • Plato, Pleonexia and Environmental Documentaries /
  • Michael Forest
  • Truth, Reality and Fiction in the Documentary of Errol Morris: Refiguring 'Platonism' in Epistemology and Aesthetics /
  • Shai Biderman
  • Back Matter
  • Index.