The Philosophy of Werner Herzog
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The Philosophy of Werner Herzog

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  2. English
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The Philosophy of Werner Herzog

About this book

Legendary director, actor, author, and provocateur Werner Herzog has incalculably influenced contemporary cinema for decades. Until now there has been no sustained effort to gather and present a variety of diverse philosophical approaches to his films and to the thinking behind their creation. The Philosophy of Werner Herzog, edited by M. Blake Wilson and Christopher Turner,collects fourteen essays by professional philosophers and film theorists from around the globe, who explore the famed German auteur's notions of "ecstatic truth" as opposed to "accountants' truth," his conception of nature and its penchant for "overwhelming and collective murder," his controversial film production techniques, his debts to his philosophical and aesthetic forebears, and finally, his pointed objections to his would-be critics––including, among others, the contributors to this book themselves. By probing how Herzog's thinking behind the camera is revealed in the action he captures in front of it, The Philosophy of Werner Herzog shines new light upon the images and dialog we see and hear on the screen by enriching our appreciation of a prolific––yet enigmatic––film artist.

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Information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2020
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781978774384
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter One: “I Am What My Films Are”
  6. Chapter Two: Herzog’s Sublime and Ecstatic Truth
  7. Chapter Three: The Conquest of Uselessness as a Practice of Film and Thought
  8. Chapter Four: Filmmaking and Philosophizing against the Grain of Theory: Herzog and Wittgenstein
  9. Chapter Five: Nature and Natural Meaning in Grizzly Man
  10. Chapter Six: Reflections from the Abyss: Herzog’s Philosophy of Death
  11. Chapter Seven: Fake News and Ecstatic Truths
  12. Chapter Eight: The Great Ecstasy of Werner Herzog: Truth, Heidegger, Apocalypse
  13. Chapter Nine: The Film Artist as Discoverer of the Marvels of Everyday Life: a Kracauerian Reading of Werner Herzog
  14. Chapter Ten: Werner Herzog and the Documentary as a Revelatory Practice
  15. Chapter Eleven: On Experience and Illumination: Werner Herzog’s Dialectical Relationship with Society
  16. Chapter Twelve: Herzog’s Philosophy of Masculinism
  17. Chapter Thirteen: Herzog’s Post-Tragic Aesthetic
  18. Chapter Fourteen: Werner Herzog on Circles, Chickens and Impotency
  19. Index
  20. Contributors

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