Robert Pippin and Film: Politics, Ethics, and Psychology after Modernism

Dominic Lash examines how Robert Pippin's philosophy has been influenced by film, highlighting the ways in which film has contributed to his work on political psychology, ethics, and self-knowledge. He also explores the implications of Pippin's methodological commitments to clear language and close contact with the details of the films in question.

Format: Hardback
Length: 280 pages
Publication date: 10 February 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Robert Pippin (1948-) is a prominent figure in contemporary philosophy, known for his influential work on thinkers such as Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche. He is also an original thinker about film, having written books and numerous articles on canonical subjects such as the Western, Film Noir, and Hitchcock's Vertigo. In Robert Pippin and Film, Dominic Lash explores the ways in which film has been crucial to Pippin's thought on important philosophical topics such as political psychology, ethics, and self-knowledge. Lash also examines the implications of Pippin's methodological commitments to clear language and close contact with the details of the films in question. By doing so, Lash brings Pippin's work on film to a wider audience and contributes to current debates within film studies and beyond. These debates include the relationships between film and philosophy, criticism and aesthetics, and individual subjectivity and political consciousness. Lash focuses on Pippin's major works on film, including Hollywood Westerns and American Myth (2010), Fatalism in American Film Noir (2012), The Philosophical Hitchcock (2017), and Filmed Thought (2020), as well as his many shorter writings on film.

Weight: 504g
Dimension: 148 x 222 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350182899