Techne of Giving - Cinema and the Generous Form of Life

Informationen zum Autor Timothy C. Campbell is professor of Italian at Cornell University. In addition to his translations of Roberto Esposito's Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy and Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community , he is most recently the author of The Techne of Giving: Cinema and the Generous Form of Life (2017) from Fordham University Press. Klappentext In The Techne of Giving, Timothy Campbell elaborates a notion of generosity as way of responding to contemporary biopower. Reading films from Visconti, Rossellini, and Antonioni, he both updates their political lexicon while adopting them as models able to push back against neoliberal forms of gift-giving. Zusammenfassung In The Techne of Giving! Timothy Campbell elaborates a notion of generosity as way of responding to contemporary biopower. Reading films from Visconti! Rossellini! and Antonioni! he both updates their political lexicon while adopting them as models able to push back against neoliberal forms of gift-giving.

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• Authors: Professor of Italian Studies Timothy (Co Campbell, Timothy Campbell, Timothy C Campbell, Timothy C. Campbell
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9780823273263
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-7326-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Commonalities (FUP); Commonalities; Commonalities
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet