Beschreibung:
Joshua Foa Dienstag is Professor of Political Science and Professor of Law at University of California Los Angeles
Joshua Foa Dienstag engages in a critical encounter with the work of Stanley Cavell on cinema, focusing skeptical attention on the claims made for the contribution of cinema to the ethical character of democratic life.
Series editors' forewordPart I: Lead essay1. The tragedy of remarriage: letter to M. Cavell about cinema (a remake) - Joshua Foa DienstagPart II: Responses2. Emancipated perfectionism - or, in praise of dreaming - Clare Woodford3. The phenomenology of the political: a reply from Saturday Night to Mr. Dienstag - Tracy B. Strong4. The tragedy of remarriage in the golden age of television - Margaret Kohn5. 'That dangerous contention': a cinematic response to pessimism - Davide Panagia6. Letter to Mr. Dienstag - Thomas DummPart III: Reply7. A reply to my critics - Joshua Foa DienstagIndex