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Cosmos and Camus

Science Fiction Film and the Absurd
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148 Seiten
Englisch
Peter Langerschienen am30.06.2020
Cosmos and Camus explores the intersection of science fiction film with Albert Camus´ philosophy of the absurd. Analyses of the films Contact, Arrival, A.I. and Her show that imaginative collisions with nonhumans help to illuminate the nature of the absurd in the human condition.mehr
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KlappentextCosmos and Camus explores the intersection of science fiction film with Albert Camus´ philosophy of the absurd. Analyses of the films Contact, Arrival, A.I. and Her show that imaginative collisions with nonhumans help to illuminate the nature of the absurd in the human condition.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-78997-664-9
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2020
Erscheinungsdatum30.06.2020
Seiten148 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht318 g
Artikel-Nr.16235141

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments - Abbreviations - Introduction Camus´ absurd and science fiction film: A potential point of convergence? - Part I Camus´ absurd: Consciousness and limits - The redemptive power of absurd walls in The Stranger - "If I were a tree": Facing the limits of human existence in The Myth of Sisyphus - "A strange form of love": Responding to the limits of human existence in The Myth of Sisyphus and The Rebel - Part II Science fiction films: Absurd at the edge of the cosmos - Introduction to Part II - When the silent universe speaks: Applying Camus´ absurd to the alien encounters of Contact and Arrival - Dreams of the impossible: Applying Camus´ absurd to the human/machine relations of A.I. Artificial Intelligence and Her - The strangers: Reflections on the interrelations between Camus´ absurd and sci-fi encounters with nonhumans - Bibliography - Index.mehr

Autor

Shai Tubali is a postgraduate researcher in the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science at the University of Leeds. His Masters by Research inspired Cosmos and Camus. Currently, he is conducting his doctoral research in the field of the philosophy of mysticism. His previous academic publications include several articles in philosophy journals. As an independent lecturer and author since 2000, he has published 23 books in English, Hebrew and German in the fields of Eastern philosophy and selftransformation. He is also head of the Human Greatness center in Berlin, Germany, and travels extensively throughout Europe for lectures and seminars.