This groundbreaking volume for the Thinking Cinema series focuses on the extent to which contemporary cinema contributes to political and philosophical thinking about the future of Europe's core Enlightenment values. In light of the challenges of globalization, multi-cultural communities and post-nation state democracy, the book interrogates the borders of ethics and politics and roots itself in debates about post-secular, post-Enlightenment philosophy.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Thomas Elsaesser
Film as Thought: The ‘Film and Philosophy’ Debate
Thomas Elsaesser
Film as Thought Experiment
Thomas Elsaesser
‘Europe’: A Thought Experiment
Thomas Elsaesser
A Cinema of Abjection?
Thomas Elsaesser
Post-heroic Narratives and the Community to Come
Thomas Elsaesser
Claire Denis, Jean-Luc Nancy and Beau Travail
Thomas Elsaesser
Hitting Bottom: Aki Kaurismäki and the Abject Subject – The Man Without A Past
Thomas Elsaesser
‘Experimenting with Death in Life’: Fatih Akin and the Ethical Turn
Thomas Elsaesser
Black Suns and a Bright Planet: Lars von Trier’s Melancholia as Thought Experiment
Thomas Elsaesser
Anatomy Lesson of A Vanished Country: Christian Petzold’s Barbara
Thomas Elsaesser
Control, Creative Constraints and Self-Contradiction: The Global Auteur
Thomas Elsaesser