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Reading philosophy through the lens of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Andrea Cavalletti shows why, for two centuries, major philosophers have come to think of vertigo as intrinsically part of philosophy itself. In doing so, Cavalletti brings out the vertiginous nature of identity.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Daniel Heller-Roazen | vii
Incipit | 1
1 Vertigo Effect | 3
2 We Are Not Here | 34
3 Habit, Mask | 79
4 A Singular Rapture | 106
5 Chasm | 113
6 Surface | 130
Explicit | 147
Notes | 151
Bibliography | 177
Index | 197

Vertigo

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      Publisher Fordham University Press
      Published 4 January 2022
      ISBN-13 9780823298044
      978-0823298044
      ISBN-10 0823298043
      Also in:
      Literary theory Film history, theory or criticism Structuralism and Post-structuralism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Reading philosophy through the lens of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Andrea Cavalletti shows why, for two centuries, major philosophers have come to think of vertigo as intrinsically part of philosophy itself. In doing so, Cavalletti brings out the vertiginous nature of identity.

      Table of Contents

      Foreword by Daniel Heller-Roazen | vii
      Incipit | 1
      1 Vertigo Effect | 3
      2 We Are Not Here | 34
      3 Habit, Mask | 79
      4 A Singular Rapture | 106
      5 Chasm | 113
      6 Surface | 130
      Explicit | 147
      Notes | 151
      Bibliography | 177
      Index | 197

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