{"product_id":"plato-and-the-moving-image-9789004398108","title":"Plato and the Moving Image","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book shows how and why debates in the philosophy of film can be advanced through the study of the role of images in Plato’s dialogues, and, conversely, why Plato studies stands to benefit from a consideration of recent debates in the philosophy of film. Contributions range from a reading of Phaedo as a ghost story to thinking about climate change documentaries through Plato’s account of pleonexia. They suggest how philosophical aesthetics can be reoriented by attending anew to Plato’s deployment of images, particularly images that move. They also show how Plato’s deployment of images is integral to his practice as a literary artist.  Contributors are Shai Biderman, David Calhoun, Michael Forest, Jorge Tomas Garcia, Abraham Jacob Greenstine, Paul A. Kottman, Danielle A. Layne, David McNeill, Erik W. Schmidt, Timothy Secret, Adrian Switzer, and Michael Weinman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  List of Illustrations  Notes on Contributors    Introduction   Shai Biderman and Michael Weinman    Part 1: From Plato to the Moving Image: Reorienting Film-Philosophy  1 Accounting for Images in the Sophist   Abraham Jacob Greenstine  2 Pseudos, Kalos and Eikōs Mythos in Plato and Film   Danielle A. Layne and Erik W. Schmidt  3 Dead Ringers: Plato and Turning the Camera Back   Timothy Secret  4 The Cinematic Image as Platonic Simulacrum   Jorge Tomas Garcia  5 The Myth of Er as Rationalizing Recording Device   Michael Weinman    Part 2: From the Moving Image to Plato: Reorienting Plato Studies  6 Learning to Notice: Light and Shadow, from Chauvet Cave to Plato’s Cave and Beyond   Paul A. Kottman  7 Phaedo: a Ghost Story   David McNeill  8 Fascism Re-performed: Benjaminian Mimesis, Platonic Methexis and Bertolucci’s The Conformist   Adrian Switzer  9 Entranced by the Spectacle of Truth: Wonder and Ascent in Plato and Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups and To the Wonder   David H. Calhoun  10 Plato, Pleonexia and Environmental Documentaries   Michael Forest  11 Truth, Reality and Fiction in the Documentary of Errol Morris: Refiguring ‘Platonism’ in Epistemology and Aesthetics   Shai Biderman    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210773848407,"sku":"9789004398108","price":111.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/plato-and-the-moving-image-9789004398108","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}