Nico Baumbach’s Cinema/Politics/Philosophy presents a systematic reinterpretation and reevaluation of three contemporary European philosophers’ work on cinema: Jacques Rancière, Alain Badiou, and Giorgio Agamben. Several features separate Baumbach’s work from similar studies of these figures. First, Baumbach pairs his interpretations of each of these philosophers’ engagement with cinema with a particular “canonical” thinker in film theory – Rancière with Louis Althusser, Badiou with Gilles Deleuze, and Agamben with Walter Benjamin – in order to show how each philosopher pushes traditional debates in film theory in new directions. Second, each chapter is connected by a single, innovative, and at times challenging argument concerning the proper way to conceive the relationship between the concepts listed in its title (cinema, politics, philosophy). The book is therefore much more than an overview of these important thinkers and their engagement with cinema; it is a timely intervention into debates about what it is possible for film theory to say about the relationship between cinema and politics, and what role philosophy might play in those discussions.

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Nico Baumbach (2019) 电影/政治/哲学

Nico Baumbach 的电影/政治/哲学对三位当代欧洲哲学家的电影作品进行了系统的重新解释和评估：雅克·朗西埃、阿兰·巴迪欧和乔治·阿甘本。有几个特点将鲍姆巴赫的工作与对这些数字的类似研究区分开来。首先，鲍姆巴赫将他对这些哲学家与电影互动的解释与电影理论中特定的“规范”思想家——朗西埃与路易斯·阿尔都塞、巴迪乌与吉尔·德勒兹、阿甘本与沃尔特·本雅明——结合起来，以展示每位哲学家如何推动电影理论中的传统辩论朝着新的方向发展。其次，每一章都由一个单一的、创新的、有时具有挑战性的论点联系起来，该论点涉及正确理解其标题中列出的概念（电影、政治、哲学）之间关系的方法。因此，这本书不仅仅是对这些重要思想家及其与电影的接触的概述；这是对关于电影理论可能对电影与政治之间的关系有什么看法以及哲学在这些讨论中可能扮演什么角色的辩论的及时干预。