Brian Price

A Theory of Regret

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Produktbeschreibung

Brian Price is Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Studies and the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto, the author of Neither God nor Master: Robert Bresson and Radical Politics, and coeditor of Color, the Film Reader, and On Michael Haneke. He is also a founding coeditor of World Picture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780822369363
• ISBN-10: 0822369362
• Artikelnr.: 47708495

Autorenporträt

Brian Price is Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Studies and the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto, the author of Neither God nor Master: Robert Bresson and Radical Politics, and coeditor of Color, the Film Reader, and On Michael Haneke. He is also a founding coeditor of World Picture.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction  1
1. What is Regret?  31
The Habit of Virtue  32
Nonvoluntary and Involuntary Relations  36
Stupidity and Akrasia  42
When to Speak?  35
2. Impossible Advice  60
The Postman Always Rings Twice  61
Possible Advice  71
The Gift of Advice  82
Economy, Economics  90
Sameness and Trust  93
3. The Problem of Withdrawal  103
The Trouble with Agonism  106
Keeping Up Appearances  110
Appearance and Withdrawal  117
Hypocristy and Regret  127
Afterthoughts  133
Notes  141
Bibliography  155
Index  161