Trust in the World: A Philosophy of Film

ISBN-13: 9781138708785 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 182 str.

Josef Fruchtl

Opis

This book examines the theory, originally raised in Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of film, that cinema has the power to restore our trust in the world. Fruchtl demonstrates that cinema does this in three main ways: by restoring our belief in the absurd, in the body and in a sceptical abstention from judging and acting. Cinema shares this ability with other arts, but what sets it apart in particular is that it evokes Modernity and its principle of subjectivity. This book further develops the idea of trust and cinema by synthesizing the philosophies of complementary thinkers such as Kant, Nancy, Agamben, Benjamin and Ranciere. It concludes with examination of Cavell's solution to the problem of scepticism and a synthesis of Kantian aesthetic theory with Cavellian pragmatism. Originally published in German under the title Vertrauen in die Welt, this English-language translation features a new introduction that situates Fruchtl's work within contemporary analytical philosophy of film. It will be of interest to scholars working in Continental aesthetics, philosophy of film, and film theory.

O autorze

Josef Früchtl is Professor of Philosophy of Art and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His major research interests are aesthetics, especially the relationship between aesthetics and ethics, theories of modernity, critical theory, and the philosophy of film. He is the author of The Impertinent Self: A Heroic History of Modernity (2009).