TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foa Dienstag, Joshua
AB  - In the lead essay for this volume, Joshua Foa Dienstag engages in a critical encounter with the work of Stanley Cavell on cinema, focusing sceptical attention on the claims made for the contribution of cinema to the ethical character of democratic life. In this debate, Dienstag mirrors the celebrated dialogue between Rousseau and Jean D'Alembert on theatre, casting Cavell as D'Alembert in his view that we can learn to become better citizens and better people by observing a staged representation of human life, with Dienstag arguing, after Rousseau, that this misunderstands the relationship between original and copy, even more so in the medium of film than in the medium of theatre. The argument is developed further by essays from Clare Woodford, Tracy B. Strong, Margaret Kohn, Davide Panagia and Thomas Dunn, to which Dienstag responds in the concluding chapter, 'A reply to my critics'.
DO  - 10.7765/9781784997359
ID  - OAPEN ID: 611311
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 972045107
KW  - cinema
KW  - stanley cavell
KW  - ethics
KW  - democracy
KW  - political theory
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/013f40a3-c3b0-45f5-a05b-4926c9d4c870/XHTML5 (14).zip
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32384
PB  - Manchester University Press
PY  - 2016
SN  - 9781784997359
TI  - Cinema, democracy and perfectionism: Joshua Foa Dienstag in dialoguenull
ER  - 
