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Vertigo : the temptation of identity / Andrea Cavalletti ; translated by Max Matukhin ; foreword by Daniel Heller-Roazen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cavalletti, Andrea, author.
- Series:
- Fordham scholarship online.
- Fordham scholarship online
- Standardized Title:
- Vertigine. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Vertigo (Motion picture : 1958).
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Vertigo--Philosophy.
- Vertigo.
- Identity (Philosophical concept).
- Emptiness (Philosophy).
- Motion pictures--Philosophy.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (173 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- Reading philosophy through the lens of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, Andrea Cavalletti shows why, for two centuries, major philosophers have come to think of vertigo as intrinsically part of philosophy itself. In doing so, Cavalletti brings out the vertiginous nature of identity.
- Contents:
- Vertigo effect
- We are not here
- Habit, mask
- A singular rapture
- Chasm .
- Notes:
- Translated from the Italian.
- This translated edition also issued in print: 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 12, 2022).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Cavalletti, Andrea Vertigo
- ISBN:
- 1-5315-0072-2
- 0-8232-9805-1
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