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oapen-20.500.12657-323842023-11-15T09:17:26Z Cinema, democracy and perfectionism: Joshua Foa Dienstag in dialogue Foa Dienstag, Joshua cinema stanley cavell ethics democracy political theory bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AP Film, TV & radio::APF Films, cinema::APFA Film theory & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPQ Ethics & moral philosophy bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPA Political science & theory 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 celebrated dialogue between Rousseau and Jean D'Alembert on theatre, casting Cavell as D'Alembert in his view that we can learn to become better citizens and better people by observing a staged representation of human life, with Dienstag arguing, after Rousseau, that this misunderstands the relationship between original and copy, even more so in the medium of film than in the medium of theatre. The argument is developed further by essays from Clare Woodford, Tracy B. Strong, Margaret Kohn, Davide Panagia and Thomas Dunn, to which Dienstag responds in the concluding chapter, 'A reply to my critics'. 2016-12-31 23:55:55 2019-12-03 08:32:13 2020-04-01T14:07:59Z 2020-04-01T14:07:59Z 2016 book 611311 OCN: 972045107 9781784997359 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32384 eng Critical Powers application/octet-stream Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International XHTML5 (14).zip Manchester University Press 10.7765/9781784997359 10.7765/9781784997359 6110b9b4-ba84-42ad-a0d8-f8d877957cdd 9781784997359 232 open access
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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 celebrated dialogue between Rousseau and Jean D'Alembert on theatre, casting Cavell as D'Alembert in his view that we can learn to become better citizens and better people by observing a staged representation of human life, with Dienstag arguing, after Rousseau, that this misunderstands the relationship between original and copy, even more so in the medium of film than in the medium of theatre. The argument is developed further by essays from Clare Woodford, Tracy B. Strong, Margaret Kohn, Davide Panagia and Thomas Dunn, to which Dienstag responds in the concluding chapter, 'A reply to my critics'.
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