Savater Recensie

Boek
'De Tien Geboden ' van Fernando Savater
In zijn boek De Tien Geboden probeert de Spaanse filosoof Fernando Savater uit te zoeken of deze Bijbelse geboden nog bruikbaar zijn in onze tijd en samenleving. Een van de grootste problemen is vandaag alvast het eerste gebod: ‘Naast mij zult gij geen andere goden hebben’. Deze bepaling wijst volgens de auteur op een onzekerheid van God die blijkbaar wil verhinderen dat we zouden luisteren naar een ‘valse’ God. Maar het gebod zegt nog meer. Het demonstreert een grote intolerantie tegenover mensen met een andere geloofsovertuiging. Wat betekent dan nog het begrip ‘naastenliefde’ dat de meeste godsdiensten zo hoog in het vaandel voeren? Recensie door Dirk Verhofstadt. In Liberalis: Lees meer.

Artikelen

A metaphysics of the transcendent through a phenomenology of film: choosing metaphysics over politics
Caroline Joan Picart
Review of Communication Volume 4, Issue 3 & 4, July 2004 , pages 316 - 320

Lucid Dreams: The Films of Krzysztof Kieslowski
Paul Coates
Slavic Review: Vol. 60, No. 1 (Spring, 2001), pp. 167-168

Cinema and Subjectivity in Krzysztof Kieslowski
Paul C. Santilli
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 64 (1) , 147–156

Love and Desire

Love and Desire in the Cinema
Grodal, Torben Kragh
Cinema Journal - 43, Number 2, Winter 2004, pp. 26-46

Torben Kragh Grodal - Love and Desire in the Cinema - Cinema Journal 43:2 Cinema Journal 43.2 (2004) 26-46 Love and Desire in the Cinema Torben Grodal Abstract This essay compares romantic films with pornographic films and argues that the former focus on the establishment of personalized, exclusive relations -- bonds of love -- whereas the latter focus on anonymous desire. In addition, the article examines the evolutionary roots of love and desire and compares the explanatory value of evolutionary psychology with psychoanalysis for film studies. To explain emotions as depicted in films, it is necessary to assume that humans have needs and emotions that are formed in a specific cultural context but that are supported by innate predispositions. In particular, recent scholarly writing on film has addressed the way in which human culture has developed within a framework nature provided. In Moving Pictures, I argued that film genres such as action, adventure, comedy, love stories, pornography, and horror derive their emotional strength from innate body-mind structures that developed in order to enhance the fitness and survival of our hunter-gatherer ancestors on the savannahs of East Africa. In this article, I analyze key elements of romantic films and mainstream pornography and show that love stories are concerned with personalized bonding whereas mainstream pornography represents anonymous desire. I examine the way in which romantic films deal with the...

Lens of Faith

Movies That Matter: Reading Film Through the Lens of Faith
Richard Leonard

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In modern culture, nothing matters more than the movies, says popular film critic and Jesuit Richard Leonard. Movies that Matter views fifty important movies through a "lens of faith," showing how the great directors, screenwriters, and actors use the language of film to celebrate the human spirit and put us in touch with the divine.

Exodus

Exodus Through the Centuries
Door Scott M. Langston

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This bible commentary looks at how Exodus has influenced and has been influenced by history, religion, politics, the arts and other forms of culture over the ages. A bible commentary tracing the reception history of Exodus from Old Testament times, through the Patristic and Reformation periods, to the present day. Considers the ways in which Exodus has influenced and has been influenced by history, religion, politics, the arts and other forms of culture in Jewish, Christian and secular settings. Looks at how Exodus has served as a tool of liberation and tyranny in a variety of settings. Shows how Exodus has been used to shape the identities of individuals and groups. Discusses the works of current and past poets, musicians, film-makers, authors and artists influenced by Exodus. Addresses uses of Exodus related to American and European history such as the Glorious Revolution, colonialism, the American Revolution, Civil War, Civil Rights Movement, African-Americans, and Native Americans, as well as uses by prominent and little-known historical figuresConsiders the impact of the Ten Commandments and other laws, in legal, political and religious contexts. The Blackwell Bible Commentary series is supported by a website at www.bbibcomm.net

Cinema, Religion

Cinema, Religion, and the Romantic Legacy: Through a Glass Darkly
Paul Coates

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Any consideration of the interrelations of religion and cinema must address the argument that embeds religion, myth and the sacred in language. This text explores the manner in which cinema, religion and the romantic legacy are linked.

Nussbaum

Martha Nussbaum and Thomas Aquinas on the Emotions
Carlo Leget
Theological Studies, Vol. 64, 2003

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All this works out in a second, related point: the killing of human beings. Aquinas's reflection on the legitimacy of killing human beings has an internal coherence which is constituted by a theocentric logic. (62) But in reflecting on the legitimacy of killing, he loses sight of the corporeal reality which is at stake. (63) Of course, abstracting from the concrete situation is important from the viewpoint of justice, most of the "legitimate" instances of killing can be justified as a defense of innocent human beings, and morally good actions (such as martyrdom) are sometimes completely at odds with what we like to see or do. Nussbaum, in contrast to Aquinas, consistently adopts the perspective of the vulnerable corporeal human being. From this perspective Aquinas's point of view has sometimes a one-sidedness that should warn us from translating his conclusions to contemporary culture. When Aquinas discusses e.g. the questions as to whether it is allowed to kill sinners, he compares the killing with cutting of a rotten limp or killing an animal. (64) Although I hesitate to judge medieval times--considering the complexity of the history of mentality and understanding the emotions of different cultures--in contemporary society there are better and more humane ways of dealing with those who are a threat to the community. (65)

(63) See Krzysztof Kieslowski's A Short Film about Killing (part 5 of Dekalog: The Ten Commandments).