Cinema, democracy and perfectionism Joshua Foa Dienstag in dialogue

In the lead essay for this volume, Joshua Foa Dienstag engages in a critical encounter with the work of Stanley Cavell on cinema, focusing sceptical attention on the claims made for the contribution of cinema to the ethical character of democratic life. In this debate, Dienstag mirrors the celebrate...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Manchester University Press, publisher (publisher)
Other Authors:	Dienstag, Joshua Foa, 1965- author, editor (author editor), Dienstag, Joshua Foa, contributor (contributor), Dienstag, Joshua Foa, editor (editor), Dumm, Thomas, contributor, Kohn, Margaret, contributor, Panagia, Davide, contributor, Strong, Tracy B., contributor, Woodford, Clare, contributor
Format:	eBook Section
Language:	Inglés
Published:	Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press 2016
Series:	Critical powers.
Subjects:	Cavell, Stanley, > 1926-2018. Motion pictures > Political aspects. Motion pictures > Philosophy. Motion pictures > Plots, themes, etc. Humanities. Ethics and moral philosophy. POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. Philosophy & Religion > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:	https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430553206719

Table of Contents:

I. Lead essay
1. The tragedy of remarriage: letter to M. Cavell about cinema (a remake) / Joshua Foa Dienstag
II. Responses
2. Emancipated perfectionism or, In praise of dreaming / Clare Woodford
3. The phenomenology of the political: a reply from Saturday Night to Mr. Dienstag / Tracy B. Strong
4. The tragedy of remarriage in the Golden Age of television / Margaret Kohn
5. "That dangerous contention”: a cinematic response to pessimism / Davide Panagia
6. Letter to Mr. Dienstag / Thomas Dumm
III. Reply
7. A letter to my critics / Joshua Foa Dienstag.

Cinema, democracy and perfectionism Joshua Foa Dienstag in dialogue

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