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21%OFFPaul W. Kahn - Finding Ourselves at the Movies: Philosophy for a New Generation - 9780231164382 - V9780231164382
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Finding Ourselves at the Movies: Philosophy for a New Generation

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Description for Finding Ourselves at the Movies: Philosophy for a New Generation Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 492.
Academic philosophy may have lost its audience, but the traditional subjects of philosophy-love, death, justice, knowledge, and faith-remain as compelling as ever. To reach a new generation, Paul W. Kahn argues that philosophy must take up these fundamental concerns as we find them in contemporary culture. He demonstrates how this can be achieved through a turn to popular film. Discussing such well-known movies as Forrest Gump (1994), The American President (1995), The Matrix (1999), Memento (2000), The History of Violence (2005), Gran Torino (2008), The Dark Knight (2008), The Road (2009), and Avatar (2009), Kahn explores powerful archetypes and ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231164382
SKU
V9780231164382
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About Paul W. Kahn
Paul W. Kahn is Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities and director of the Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for Human Rights at Yale Law School. He is the author of many books, including Sacred Violence: Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty and Political Theology: Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty.

Reviews for Finding Ourselves at the Movies: Philosophy for a New Generation
A brilliant venture in the lost art of bringing theoretical insight to bear on popular culture. Finding Ourselves at the Movies defends another relationship between the thinker and the public, enacting what it theorizes in illuminating commentaries on films. Kahn makes us reconsider movies as reflections of our collective imagination and public commitments.
Samuel Moyn, Columbia University This is ... Read more

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