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By Daniel Shaw

This ebook pairs shut readings of a few of the vintage writings of existentialist philosophers with interpretations of flicks that show remarkable parallels to every of these texts, demonstrating their respective philosophies in motion. person chapters comprise major excerpts from the unique texts being mentioned and illustrated. Pairings hide Schopenhauer and Waking Life, Stirner and Hud, Kierkegaard and Winter Light, Nietzsche and The Fountainhead, Heidegger, Blade Runner and The skinny purple Line, Camus, Leaving Las Vegas and Missing, Sartre, Husbands and Wives, and Michael Collins, de Beauvoir and Revolutionary Road, and Foucault and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Movies with Meaning deals a transparent and insightful exam of the relationships among existential philosophers and picture, offering either digests in their most important texts and cinematic illustrations of what each one had in brain. For the 1st time in a single position, this publication analyses the results for movie of the views of a big selection of the main major existentialist thinkers. prepared chronologically, like such a lot existentialism anthologies, this is often an awesome textbook for an intermediate point existentialism direction, or as a significant other to a variety of basic texts.

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