Description
One astonishing feature of this volume is the scope of its ambition. To claim to have discovered 'universal and invariant structures of love' which, 2,500 years after Plato, has finally found its ideal embodiment in film, is surely a daring statement. The thesis offered here is a subtle, erudite, and sophisticated analysis substantiating this claim, making it an exciting and challenging text indeed. -- Andrei Zorin, Oxford University This volume presents a philosophical examination of love in cinema. Its claim is that the essence of love consists in an undefinable relation between the lover and the beloved. This free relation can neither be produced nor be controlled by the lovers. Love, however, also needs specific articulation being realized in the cultural world; there is thus an irreducible tension between the freedom of love as a reciprocal relation and the determination of its moral, social, and political manifestations. This tension allows for a challenging reading of classical philosophical conceptions of love as well a stimulating interpretation of love in cinema. -- Ulrich Seeberg, Martin-Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
About the Author
Reidar Due teaches Film Aesthetics and is Fellow in French at Magdalen College, Oxford University. He has previously published on Jean-Paul Sartre and Gilles Deleuze, and his research centers on the ontology of modern art and the relationship between phenomenology and ethics.
Book Information
ISBN 9780231167321
Author Reidar Due
Format Hardback
Page Count 192
Imprint Wallflower Press
Publisher Columbia University Press