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    (1 other version)The Philosophy of Documentary Film.David LaRocca (ed.) - 2016 - Lanham: Lexington Books.
    Perhaps nowhere in the broad expanse of types of film is the old “quarrel between philosophy and poetry” more evident—and also more vitally relevant—than in the genre or mode of film known as documentary. Documentary film is just another form of poetic imitation, in its variety of instances and complexity of fabrication, it is just as much caught up with the limitations—and effects—of mimetic art, including fiction film. This book affords a prismatic perspective on documentary cinema, inviting the dynamism and (...)
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    ‘It's all there in the language’—a conversation with Garrett Stewart.David LaRocca - 2024 - Philosophical Investigations 47 (3):278-297.
    What does a famed literary theorist have to say about the interaction between ‘literature’ and ‘philosophy’? Well, if he's Garrett Stewart, the celebrated agent of pyrotechnic style in the service of durable insights across disparate disciplines and media, then we have much reason to lean in and listen. Stewart is the author of 20 books that range with uncanny competency across Victorian narrative, contemporary American fiction, written auralities, poetics and prose stylistics, cinematic evolution from silver oxide to screen pixel, book (...)
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    The Education of Grown-ups: An Aesthetics of Reading Cavell.David LaRocca - 2013 - Journal of Aesthetic Education 47 (2):109-131.
    But then I think of how often I have cast the world I want to live in as one in which my capacities for playfulness and for seriousness are not used against one another, so against me. I am the lady they always want to saw in half. Just as there was a time when it was uncommon, not to say unfashionable and perhaps professionally treacherous, for philosophers to write about Ralph Waldo Emerson, there was also a time when the (...)
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    The Geschlecht Complex: Addressing Untranslatable Aspects of Gender, Genre, and Ontology.Oscar Jansson & David LaRocca (eds.) - 2022 - Bloomsbury Publishing USA.
    "The notion of Geschlecht - denoting gender, genre, kinship, and more - exemplifies the most pertinent questions of the transnational and transdisciplinary structures of contemporary humanities. What happens in the transference from one language, tradition, or form to another? Combining detailed case studies of "category problems" in literature, philosophy, theatre, media, cinema, and performing arts, with excerpts from canonical texts-by field-defining thinkers such as Derrida, Malabou, Nancy, and Irigaray-the volume presents "the Geschlecht complex" as a fulcrum for any interpretive endeavor, (...)
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    Changing the Subject.David LaRocca - 2007 - Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 12 (1):169-184.
    In this essay, I investigate our understanding of what counts as philosophical. Using the life and work of Wittgenstein as a test case, I take a close look at how various Wittgenstein scholars relate to work other than the principal and accepted philosophical texts (such as the Tractatus and the Philosophical Investigations), and suggest that there is an inconsistency in the criteria of what we can and should be taking seriously for philosophical purposes; sometimes there is inconsistency of use (one (...)
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  6. Introduction: Defying definition : opening remarks on the transcendental.David LaRocca - 2017 - In The Bloomsbury anthology of transcendental thought: from antiquity to the Anthropocene. New York, NY, USA: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
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  7. Introduction: war films and the ineffability of war.David LaRocca - 2014 - In The philosophy of war films. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
     
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  8. Movement III/Recitatives. Something called perfect pitch : Cavell and the calling of ordinary language to mind / Paul Standish ; Understanding music, understanding persons : Cavell and the necessity of intentional content / Garry L. Hagberg ; Punk discomposed : staging sincerity and fraudulence.David LaRocca - 2024 - In Music with Stanley Cavell in mind. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
     
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    (1 other version)Movies with Stanley Cavell in mind.David LaRocca (ed.) - 2021 - New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
    In Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind, some of the scholars who have become essential for our understanding of Stanley Cavell's writing on film gather to use his landmark contributions to help us read new films-from Hollywood and elsewhere-films that exist beyond his immediate reach and reading. In extending the scope of Cavell's film-philosophy, we naturally find ourselves contending with it and amending it, as the case may be. Through a series of interpretive vignettes, our group effort situates, for the (...)
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  10. Prelude : sounds of philosophy.David LaRocca - 2024 - In Music with Stanley Cavell in mind. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
     
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  11. Profoundly unreconciled to nature": ecstatic truth and the humanistic sublime in Werner Herzog's war films.David LaRocca - 2014 - In The philosophy of war films. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
     
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    The Bloomsbury anthology of transcendental thought: from antiquity to the Anthropocene.David LaRocca (ed.) - 2017 - New York, NY, USA: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
    In this uniquely and timely collection, David LaRocca offers us a thoughtful reminder that the very possibility and urgent task of thinking, of our acting and judging, ethics and politics, rests upon a willing exposure to an aspect of our everyday and ordinary experience that is hard to grasp and eludes most, perhaps all, epistemic criteria. Metaphysicians, mystics, and moral perfectionists of all stripes have called this 'the transcendental', thus risking the fatal misunderstanding that this means only 'the transcendent', leading (...)
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  13. (1 other version)The ballad of Boba Fett : mercenary agency and amoralism in war.David LaRocca - 2015 - In Jason T. Eberl & Kevin S. Decker (eds.), The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy: You Must Unlearn What You Have Learned. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
     
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    The philosophy of war films.David LaRocca (ed.) - 2014 - Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
    Wars have played a momentous role in shaping the course of human history. The ever-present specter of conflict has made it an enduring topic of interest in popular culture, and many movies, from Hollywood blockbusters to independent films, have sought to show the complexities and horrors of war on-screen. In The Philosophy of War Films, David LaRocca compiles a series of essays by prominent scholars that examine the impact of representing war in film and the influence that cinematic images of (...)
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    Two Wrongs Make a Right.David LaRocca - 2018-05-09 - In Robert Arp, Steven Barbone & Michael Bruce (eds.), Bad Arguments. Wiley. pp. 230–233.
    This chapter focuses on one of the common fallacies in Western philosophy, “two wrongs make a right”. If the notion that “two wrongs make a right” seems familiar and peculiarly stated, it may be because we moreover hear it in other more commonly rendered forms. To say “two wrongs do not make a right”, necessarily implies a wholesale condemnation of retributive justice. Retributive justice, despite its largely sanitized form in contemporary society, retains the core idea that justice can be achieved (...)
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