{"product_id":"plotinus-and-the-moving-image-9789004357037","title":"Plotinus and the Moving Image","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlotinus 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Plotinus and the Moving Image is not simply the first philosophical discussion on Plotinus' philosophy and film theory but rather a true Plotinian attempt to philosophize about cinema.\" - Gabriel Martino, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, in: The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 13 (2019), 87-123\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote on the Cover Illustration Preface  Nathan Andersen Notes on Contributors  Introduction  Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and Giannis Stamatellos  1 “Cut Away Excess and Straighten the Crooked:” The Simplicity of Contemplative Cinema in the Light of Plotinus’ Philosophy  Thorsten Botz-Bornstein  2 The One in Photogénie: Plotinus and Jean Epstein  Steve Choe  3 Is the Universe a Work of Art that We Can Perceive in a Film?  Tony Partridge  4 Heracles, Hylas, and the Uses of Reflection  Stephen R.L. Clark  5 Beyond the Moving Images: A Plotinian Reading of The Truman Show  Giannis Stamatellos  6 Being as Illumination of the One and Its Manifestation through Cinematic Images  Sebastian F. Moro Tornese  7 Moving Image and Conversion: A Neo-Platonic Film Theory  Vincenzo Lomuscio  8 Character, Spectator, Film: On Cinema as a Plotinian Hierarchy  Enrico Terrone  9 Plotinus and Tarkovsky on Experience and the Transparency of Reality  Daniel Regnier  10 Images of a Moving Self: Plotinus and Bruce Nauman  Panayiota Vassilopoulou  11 Avoiding the “Dead Thing Decorated.” Neoplatonism and Daniel Martin: Towards a Poetics of Film?  Michelle Phillips Buchberger  12 The Mystical and the Beautiful: The Construction of a Plotinian Aesthetics of Film  Cameron Barrows  Filmography Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210741342551,"sku":"9789004357037","price":56.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/plotinus-and-the-moving-image-9789004357037","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}