Book Review - Philosophers on Film from Bergson to Badiou, edited by Christopher Kul-want (original) (raw)

Philosophers on Film from Bergson to Badiou is a recent collection of essays from leading Continental Philosophers of the past century. This anthology, edited by Christopher Kul-Want, centers on discussions of transgression, movement, time, patriarchy, and capitalism. The chosen selections influenced the major debates at the core of film theory from Henri Bergson’s Creative Evolution (1907) until Kaja Silverman’s Miracle of Analogy (2015). All the pieces in the edition are published elsewhere, which makes the stellar introduction and concise chapter presentations provided by Kul-Want the most standout aspects of the compilation. Those unique editorial pieces make this work especially valuable, particularly for courses in film theory, the history of capitalism, modern philosophy, and broader media studies