Plotinus and the Moving Image

by Giannis Stamatellos and Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

Plotinus and the Moving Image offers the first philosophical discussion on Plotinus' philosophy and film. It discusses Plotinian concepts like "the One" in a cinematic context and relates Plotinus' theory of time as a transitory intelligible movement of the soul to Bergson's and Deleuze's time-image. Film is a unique medium for a rapprochement of our modern consciousness with the thought of Plotinus. The Neoplatonic vestige is particularly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004357033
• ISBN13: 9789004357037
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.2"