Theo Angelopoulos: Filmmaker and Philosopher

Cover\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nDedication\nContents\nIllustrations\nPreface Or Against the Historicist Imprisonment of Art\nChapter 1 The Quest for Existential Poesis Or Prelude to Theo Angelopoulos’s Iconosophy\n	Preliminary Notions\n	From Liberation to Self-transcendence\n	About This Book\nChapter 2 On First Encountering Theo Angelopoulos Or on the Existential Grounding of Films\n	Situating the Writer and the Subject\n	On Visual Problematology\n	The Dialectics of Context\n	Note on Philosophical Subscripts\nChapter 3 On Seeing Films Philosophically Or From Politics to Existence\n	Can Filmmakers See Philosophically?\n	Historical Knowledge in Angelopoulos\n	Between Physics and Metaphysics\n	From Home to Homelessness\n	Questions of History and Identity\nChapter 4 On Being, Loss, and Memory Or The Social Ontology of Historicity\n	Philosophical Entanglements\n	How Subjectivity Ends\n	An Eschatological Parable\n	History Without an End\nChapter 5 On Redemption Or Saving the Phenomena and the Dread of Shadows in Eternity and a Day\n	Aesthetics and Ethics\n	Ethics for Cinematic Temporality\n	On Philosophical Visuality\n	Excursus on Tarkovsky\n	From Abstraction to the Aniconic\n	Images of Love\n	The Realm of Conscious Mortality\nChapter 6 The Risk of Being Tempted by Déjà Vu Or On the Ontological Sublime\n	The Destiny of Images\n	After the Self, What?\n	Postscript\nChapter 7 Visual Essay The Discovery of the Psyche\nNotes\nReferences\nIndex