{"product_id":"the-philosophy-of-werner-herzog-9781793600424","title":"The Philosophy of Werner Herzog","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLegendary 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. I Am What My Films Are: Listening to Herzog’s Ecstatic, Essayistic Pronouncements \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid LaRocca\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2. Herzog’s Sublime and Ecstatic Truth: From Burke’s Physiological Aesthesis to the Dionysian Unveiling \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatricia Castello Branco\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. The Conquest of Uselessness as a Practice of Film and Thought \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniele Dottorini \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4. Filmmaking and Philosophizing Against the Grain of Theory: Herzog and Wittgenstein \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMihai Ométiță\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. Nature and Meaning in Grizzly Man \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarc Furstenau\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6. Reflections from the Abyss: Herzog’s Philosophy of Death\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eM. Blake Wilson \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7. Fake News and Ecstatic Truths: Alternative Facts in Lessons of Darkness \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKyle Novak\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8. The Great Ecstasy of Werner Herzog: Truth, Heidegger, Apocalypse \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIan Alexander Moore\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9. The Film Artist as Discoverer of the Marvels of Everyday Life: Toward a Kracauerian \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading of Werner Herzog\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristopher Turner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10. Werner Herzog and Documentary as a Revelatory Practice \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAntony Fredriksson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11. On Experience and Illumination: Werner Herzog’s Dialectical Relationship with Society\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStefanie Baumann\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12. Herzog’s Philosophy of Masculinism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill Lehman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13. Herzog’s Post-Tragic Aesthetic: A Kierkegaardian Perspective \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnthony Eagan and Simon Thornton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14. Werner Herzog on Circles, Chickens and Impotency \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTyler Tritten \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Contributors \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042604810583,"sku":"9781793600424","price":84.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-philosophy-of-werner-herzog-9781793600424","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}