Plotinus and the moving image /
Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten.
Plotinus and the moving image / edited by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Giannis Stamatellos. - 1 online resource. - Value inquiry book series, Philosophy of film v. 310. 0929-8436 ; . - Value Inquiry Book Series 310. Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004328082. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction / “Cut Away Excess and Straighten the Crooked:” The Simplicity of Contemplative Cinema in the Light of Plotinus’ Philosophy / The One in Photogénie: Plotinus and Jean Epstein / Is the Universe a Work of Art that We Can Perceive in a Film? / Heracles, Hylas, and the Uses of Reflection / Beyond the Moving Images: A Plotinian Reading of The Truman Show / Being as Illumination of the One and Its Manifestation through Cinematic Images / Moving Image and Conversion: A Neoplatonic Film Theory / Character, Spectator, Film: On Cinema as a Plotinian Hierarchy / Plotinus and Tarkovsky on Experience and the Transparency of Reality / Images of a Moving Self: Plotinus and Bruce Nauman / Avoiding the “Dead Thing Decorated.” Neoplatonism and Daniel Martin: Towards a Poetics of Film? / The Mystical and the Beautiful: The Construction of a Plotinian Aesthetics of Film / Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and Giannis Stamatellos -- Thorsten Botz-Bornstein -- Steve Choe -- Tony Partridge -- Stephen R.L. Clark -- Giannis Stamatellos -- Sebastian F. Moro Tornese -- Vincenzo Lomuscio -- Enrico Terrone -- Daniel Regnier -- Panayiota Vassilopoulou -- Michelle Phillips Buchberger -- Cameron Barrows.
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Plotinus and the Moving Image offers the first philosophical discussion on Plotinus' philosophy and film. It discusses Plotinian concepts like \'the One\' in a cinematic context and relates Plotinus' theory of time as a transitory intelligible movement of the soul to Bergson’s and Deleuze’s time-image. Film is a unique medium for a rapprochement of our modern consciousness with the thought of Plotinus. The Neoplatonic vestige is particularly worth exploring in the context of the newly emerging “Cinema of Contemplation.” Plotinus' search for the \'intelligible\' that can be grasped neither by sense perception nor by merely logical abstractions leads to a fluent way of seeing. Parallels that had so far never been discussed are made plausible. This book is a milestone in the philosophy of film. Contributors are: Cameron Barrows, Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Michelle Phillips Buchberger, Steve Choe, Stephen Clark, Vincenzo Lomuscio, Tony Partridge, Daniel Regnier, Giannis Stamatellos, Enrico Terrone, Sebastian F. Moro Tornese and Panayiota Vassilopoulou.
9789004357167
10.1163/9789004357167 DOI
2017043988
Plotinus.
Motion pictures--Philosophy.
B693.Z7
186/.4
Plotinus and the moving image / edited by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Giannis Stamatellos. - 1 online resource. - Value inquiry book series, Philosophy of film v. 310. 0929-8436 ; . - Value Inquiry Book Series 310. Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004328082. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction / “Cut Away Excess and Straighten the Crooked:” The Simplicity of Contemplative Cinema in the Light of Plotinus’ Philosophy / The One in Photogénie: Plotinus and Jean Epstein / Is the Universe a Work of Art that We Can Perceive in a Film? / Heracles, Hylas, and the Uses of Reflection / Beyond the Moving Images: A Plotinian Reading of The Truman Show / Being as Illumination of the One and Its Manifestation through Cinematic Images / Moving Image and Conversion: A Neoplatonic Film Theory / Character, Spectator, Film: On Cinema as a Plotinian Hierarchy / Plotinus and Tarkovsky on Experience and the Transparency of Reality / Images of a Moving Self: Plotinus and Bruce Nauman / Avoiding the “Dead Thing Decorated.” Neoplatonism and Daniel Martin: Towards a Poetics of Film? / The Mystical and the Beautiful: The Construction of a Plotinian Aesthetics of Film / Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and Giannis Stamatellos -- Thorsten Botz-Bornstein -- Steve Choe -- Tony Partridge -- Stephen R.L. Clark -- Giannis Stamatellos -- Sebastian F. Moro Tornese -- Vincenzo Lomuscio -- Enrico Terrone -- Daniel Regnier -- Panayiota Vassilopoulou -- Michelle Phillips Buchberger -- Cameron Barrows.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Plotinus and the Moving Image offers the first philosophical discussion on Plotinus' philosophy and film. It discusses Plotinian concepts like \'the One\' in a cinematic context and relates Plotinus' theory of time as a transitory intelligible movement of the soul to Bergson’s and Deleuze’s time-image. Film is a unique medium for a rapprochement of our modern consciousness with the thought of Plotinus. The Neoplatonic vestige is particularly worth exploring in the context of the newly emerging “Cinema of Contemplation.” Plotinus' search for the \'intelligible\' that can be grasped neither by sense perception nor by merely logical abstractions leads to a fluent way of seeing. Parallels that had so far never been discussed are made plausible. This book is a milestone in the philosophy of film. Contributors are: Cameron Barrows, Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Michelle Phillips Buchberger, Steve Choe, Stephen Clark, Vincenzo Lomuscio, Tony Partridge, Daniel Regnier, Giannis Stamatellos, Enrico Terrone, Sebastian F. Moro Tornese and Panayiota Vassilopoulou.
9789004357167
10.1163/9789004357167 DOI
2017043988
Plotinus.
Motion pictures--Philosophy.
B693.Z7
186/.4