ID - 8058102 TI - Cinema, democracy and perfectionism : Joshua Foa Dienstag in dialogue AU - Dienstag, Joshua Foa AU - Dienstag, Joshua Foa, AU - Dumm, Thomas, AU - Kohn, Margaret, AU - Panagia, Davide, AU - Strong, Tracy B., AU - Woodford, Clare, AU - Manchester University Press PY - 2016 SN - 178499779X 1784997358 1784994014 1784994022 9781784994020 9781784997793 PB - Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Motion pictures KW - Political aspects. KW - Philosophy. KW - Plots, themes, etc. KW - Cavell, Stanley, KW - Motion picture plays KW - Motion picture plots KW - Plots (Drama, novel, etc.) KW - Film genres KW - Cinema KW - Feature films KW - Films KW - Movies KW - Moving-pictures KW - Audio-visual materials KW - Mass media KW - Performing arts KW - Themes, motives KW - History and criticism KW - Cavell, Stanley Louis, KW - Goldstein, Stanley Louis, KW - カヴェル, スタンリー, KW - cinema KW - stanley cavell KW - ethics KW - democracy KW - political theory KW - Humanities. KW - Ethics and moral philosophy. KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Philosophy KW - Topics in philosophy KW - Ethics & moral philosophy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8058102 AB - In the lead essay for this volume, Joshua Foa Dienstag engages in a critical encounter with the work of Stanley Cavell on cinema, focusing sceptical attention on the claims made for the contribution of cinema to the ethical character of democratic life. In this debate, Dienstag mirrors the celebrated dialogue between Rousseau and Jean D'Alembert on theatre, casting Cavell as D'Alembert in his view that we can learn to become better citizens and better people by observing a staged representation of human life, with Dienstag arguing, after Rousseau, that this misunderstands the relationship between original and copy, even more so in the medium of film than in the medium of theatre. The argument is developed further by essays from Clare Woodford, Tracy B. Strong, Margaret Kohn, Davide Panagia and Thomas Dunn, to which Dienstag responds in the concluding chapter, 'A reply to my critics'. ER -