1. Introduction: against the historicist imprisonment of art
2. The quest for existential poesis Or Prelude to Theo Angelopoulos’ Iconosophy
3. On First Encountering Theo Angelopoulos Or on the Existential Grounding of films
4. On Seeing films Philosophically Or from Politics to Existence
5. On Being, Loss & Memory Or the social ontology of historicity
6. On Redemption: Saving the Phenomena and the Dread of Shadows in Eternity and a Day
7. The Risk of Being Tempted by the ‘Déjà vu’ Or on the Ontological Sublime
8. Visual Essay: The Discovery of the Psyche
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