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The Philosophy of Werner Herzog
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2020
Summary
Legendary director, actor, author, and provocateur Werner Herzog has incalculably influenced contemporary cinema for decades. Until now there has been no sustained effort to gather and present a variety of diverse philosophical approaches to his films and to the thinking behind their creation. The Philosophy of Werner Herzog, edited by M. Blake Wilson and Christopher Turner,collects fourteen essays by professional philosophers and film theorists from around the globe, who explore the famed German auteur’s notions of “ecstatic truth” as opposed to “accountants’ truth,” his conception of nature and its penchant for “overwhelming and collective murder,” his controversial film production techniques, his debts to his philosophical and aesthetic forebears, and finally, his pointed objections to his would-be critics––including, among others, the contributors to this book themselves. By probing how Herzog’s thinking behind the camera is revealed in the action he captures in front of it, The Philosophy of Werner Herzog shines new light upon the images and dialog we see and hear on the screen by enriching our appreciation of a prolific––yet enigmatic––film artist.
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Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-0042-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-0043-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
263
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One: “I Am What My Films Are” No access Pages 1 - 20
Chapter Two: Herzog’s Sublime and Ecstatic Truth No access Pages 21 - 38
Chapter Three: The Conquest of Uselessness as a Practice of Film and Thought No access Pages 39 - 54
Chapter Four: Filmmaking and Philosophizing against the Grain of Theory: Herzog and Wittgenstein No access Pages 55 - 68
Chapter Five: Nature and Natural Meaning in Grizzly Man No access Pages 69 - 94
Chapter Six: Reflections from the Abyss: Herzog’s Philosophy of Death No access Pages 95 - 116
Chapter Seven: Fake News and Ecstatic Truths No access Pages 117 - 134
Chapter Eight: The Great Ecstasy of Werner Herzog: Truth, Heidegger, Apocalypse No access Pages 135 - 152
Chapter Nine: The Film Artist as Discoverer of the Marvels of Everyday Life: a Kracauerian Reading of Werner Herzog No access Pages 153 - 170
Chapter Ten: Werner Herzog and the Documentary as a Revelatory Practice No access Pages 171 - 186
Chapter Eleven: On Experience and Illumination: Werner Herzog’s Dialectical Relationship with Society No access Pages 187 - 202
Chapter Twelve: Herzog’s Philosophy of Masculinism No access Pages 203 - 214
