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Zusatztext Todd May's accessible and engaging book will drive the uninitiated into the films of Kenneth Lonergan and enhance the experience of those who are already admirers. May connects philosophy to the films in ways that both professional scholars and laypersons can appreciate. One wishes more books like this existed. Informationen zum Autor Todd May is Class of 1941 Memorial Professor of Philosophy at Clemson University! USA. He is author of fourteen books of philosophy including The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism (1994)! Reconsidering Difference (1997)! Death (The Art of Living) (1997)! Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction (2011)! A Significant Life: Human Life in a Silent Universe (2016) and The Fragile Life: Accepting Our Vulnerability (2017). He is also the philosophical adviser on NBC's hit TV show The Good Place. The first book on Kenneth Lonergan and his films exploring the insights and reflections which make his work so conceptually rich Zusammenfassung Kenneth Lonergan's three films- You Can Count on Me (2000)! Margaret (2011)! and Manchester by the Sea (2016)-are rife with philosophical complexities. They challenge simple philosophical approaches to central issues of human behaviour. In particular! they ask questions about how to cope with suffering that one cannot overcome! the role that self- deception plays in people's lives and how to think about characters who do not embody simplistic moral ideas of virtue and vice. By philosophically engaging with these themes as they unfold in Lonergan's films! we are then able to formulate a more nuanced answer to the questions they pose. Kenneth Lonergan: Philosophical Filmmaker will draw from Lonergan's films and plays! along with the philosophical literature on the topics that they explore. The rich history of philosophical reflection surrounding these areas enables the reader to determine how the themes central to Lonergan's work have combined to create a rich cinematic oeuvre. Inhaltsverzeichnis prelims acknowledgements 1. Kenneth Lonergan: An Introduction to his Work2. Irredeemable Suffering 3. Self-Deception 4. Moral Complexity 5. Conclusion: Complicating Philosophical Reflection bibliography index ...
