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Werner Herzog has produced some of the most powerful, haunting, and memorable images ever captured on film. Both his fiction films and his documentaries address fundamental issues about nature, selfhood, and history in ways that engage with but also criticize and qualify the best philosophical thinking about these topics. In focusing on figures from Aguirre, Kasper Hauser, and Stroszek to Timothy Treadwell, Graham Dorrington, Dieter Dengler, and Walter Steiner, among many others, Herzog investigates the nature of human life in time and the possibilities of meaning that might be available within it. His films demonstrate the importance of the image in coming to terms with the plights of contemporary industrial and commercial culture. Eldridge unpacks and develops Herzog's achievement by bringing his work into engagement with the thinking of Freud, Merleau-Ponty, Nietzsche, Hegel, Cavell, and Benjamin, but more importantly also by attending closely to the logic and development of the films themselves and to Herzog's own extensive writings about filmmaking.
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Richard Eldridge is Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy, Swarthmore College, USA. He is the author of five books and works in aesthetics and the philosophy of literature, the philosophy of language, and German philosophy.
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“Hegel, Nietzsche, and Heidegger are prominent among the philosophical sources, but Eldridge also draws extensively on commentary by contemporary film scholars and reviewers and on Herzog’s own writings and interviews. Particularly effective are Eldridge’s insightful close readings of particular films, both fiction and documentary ... Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.” – CHOICE
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- PublisherBloomsbury Academic
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1350100153
- ISBN 13 9781350100152
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages240
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