Shadow Philosophy: Plato's Cave and Cinema

Shadow Philosophy: Plato's Cave and A Clockwork Orange is a fine example of film-philosophy, offering something new to the discipline as well as being immediately useful to students. Nathan Andersen brings Stanley Kubrick's film A Clockwork Orange into philosophical conversation with Plato's Republic, providing a novel approach to the analogy between Plato's allegory of the cave and cinema that shows to take film seriously is also to engage with the fundamental questions of philosophy.

Author: Nathan Andersen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 04/10/2014
Pages: 172
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780415742061

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2014 pg. 622

About the Author

Nathan Andersen teaches philosophy and film at Eckerd College, USA. He programs an award-winning cinema series in Tampa Bay, Florida, and is the co-director of the "Visions of Nature/Voices of Nature," Environmental Film Festival. He has published articles on the history of philosophy, environmental philosophy, and film.