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Cinema Pessimism: A Political Theory of Representation and Reciprocity
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Artikel-Nr:
9780190067717
Veröffentl:
2019
Seiten:
192
Autor:
Joshua Foa Dienstag
Gewicht:
340 g
Format:
211x140x15 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Joshua Foa Dienstag is Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of three previous books including, Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit, which won the Book Award for Excellence in Philosophy from the American Association of Publishers, and most recently, Cinema, Democracy, Perfectionism.
Cinema Pessimism explores the challenges of representative democracy through film. Film allows us to see the problems of democracy from a unique perspective, illuminating dangers that are not always visible to us either from day-to-day experience or the classics of democratic theory. Joshua Foa Dienstag argues that there are threats lurking in our political systems that we fail to perceive due to the many pleasures that representation (both political andfilmic) provides. Ultimately, Dienstag seeks to defend a kind of pessimistic politics that might produce a better sort of democratic representation than what we have today.