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Skepticism films : knowing and doubting the world in contemporary cinema / Philipp Schmerheim.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schmerheim, Philipp, author.
- Series:
- Thinking Media
- Thinking media
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Knowledge, Theory of, in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Philosophy.
- Motion pictures.
- Skepticism in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "A study of how contemporary cinema and film-philosophers explore radical skepticism about our knowledge of the world."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note:
- List of figuresAcknowledgements1. Introduction: Skepticism Films. A Certain Tendency in Contemporary CinemaPart I: Thinking Through Cinema2. Films as Configurations of Philosophical Thought3. Remediating Philosophy, or: The Media of Philosophical ThoughtPart II: Skepticism in Film Philosophy4. Varieties of Philosophical Skepticism: Knowledge, Acknowledgement, and Trust5. A Moving Image of Skepticism? Philosophy's Acknowledgement of Film6. A Cinema for Believers. Trust, Belief, and the Expulsion from the Paradise of ChildhoodPart III: Skepticism Films7. Varieties of Skepticism Films8. Tools for Philosophical Film Analysis9. (Not) Knowing My World: External World Skepticism Films10. Not Knowing My Self, or: Being One's Own Evil Deceiver11. Coda. From Doubt to Acknowledgement, or: The Philosophical Significance of Skepticism Films revisitedBibliography and FilmographyIndex.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-5013-1100-X
- 1-5013-1099-2
- OCLC:
- 1106557822
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