Werner Herzog

Filmmaker and Philosopher

By:

Richard Eldridge

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Hardback

Series:

Philosophical Filmmakers

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Werner Herzog has produced some of the most powerful, haunting, and memorable images ever captured on film. Both his fiction films and his documentaries address fundamental issues about nature, selfhood, and history in ways that engage with but also criticize and qualify the best philosophical thinking about these topics. In focusing on figures from Aguirre, Kasper Hauser, and Stroszek to Timothy Treadwell, Graham Dorrington, Dieter Dengler, and Walter Steiner, among many others, Herzog investigates the nature of human life in time and the possibilities of meaning that might be available within it. His films demonstrate the importance of the image in coming to terms with the plights of contemporary industrial and commercial culture. Eldridge unpacks and develops Herzog’s achievement by bringing his work into engagement with the thinking of Freud, Merleau-Ponty, Nietzsche, Hegel, Cavell, and Benjamin, but more importantly also by attending closely to the logic and development of the films themselves and to Herzog’s own extensive writings about filmmaking.

Author Biography:

Richard Eldridge is Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy, Swarthmore College, USA. He is the author of five books and works in aesthetics and the philosophy of literature, the philosophy of language, and German philosophy.

Release date NZ

December 27th, 2018

Author

Richard Eldridge

Series

Philosophical Filmmakers

Pages

240

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

20 b&w illus

ISBN-13

9781350091672

Product ID

28208913

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