European Cinema and Continental Philosophy: Film as Thought Experiment

Thomas Elsaesser

2019

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

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Film as Thought: The ‘Film and Philosophy’ Debate

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Film as Thought Experiment

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‘Europe’: A Thought Experiment

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A Cinema of Abjection?

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Post-heroic Narratives and the Community to Come

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Claire Denis, Jean-Luc Nancy and Beau Travail

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Hitting Bottom: Aki Kaurismäki and the Abject Subject – The Man Without A Past

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‘Experimenting with Death in Life’: Fatih Akin and the Ethical Turn

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Black Suns and a Bright Planet: Lars von Trier’s Melancholia as Thought Experiment

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Anatomy Lesson of A Vanished Country: Christian Petzold’s Barbara

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Control, Creative Constraints and Self-Contradiction: The Global Auteur

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