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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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    A Paperback / softback by Andrea Cavalletti, Max Matukhin, Daniel Heller-Roazen

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: 04/01/2022
      ISBN13: 9780823298044, 978-0823298044
      ISBN10: 0823298043
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      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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