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ISBN 10: 0813138701 

ISBN 13: 9780813138701

Author: Dean A. Kowalski

“This lively collection of essays on the ideas underpinning his films enriches and enlarges our understanding of Spielberg’s complex body of work.” —Joseph McBride, author of Steven Spielberg: A Biography Few directors have had as powerful an influence on the film industry and the movie-going public as Steven Spielberg. Whatever the subject—dinosaurs, war, extra-terrestrials, slavery, the Holocaust, or terrorism—one clear and consistent touchstone is present in all of Spielberg’s films: an interest in the human condition. In movies ranging from Jaws to Schindler’s List to Amistad to Jurassic Park, he has brought to life some of the most popular heroes—and most despised villains—of all time.   In Steven Spielberg and Philosophy, Dean A. Kowalski and some of the nation’s most respected philosophers investigate Spielberg’s art to illuminate the nature of humanity. The book explores rich themes such as cinematic realism, fictional belief, terrorism, family ethics, consciousness, virtue and moral character, human rights, and religion in Spielberg’s work. Avid moviegoers and deep thinkers will discover plenty to enjoy in this collection.

Table of contents:

Part I: Philosophy, the Filmmaker, and the Human Condition

• The “Big-Little” Film and Philosophy: Two Takes on Spielbergian Innocence

• The Recovery of Childhood and the Search for the Absent Father

• Levinasian Ethics of Alterity: The Face of the Other in Spielberg’s Cinematic Language

• The Paradox of Fictional Belief and Its Moral Implications in Jaws

• A.I.: Artificial Intelligence and the Tragic Sense of Life

Part II: Values, Virtue, and Justice

• What Is Wrong with Cloning a Dinosaur? Jurassic Park and Nature as a Source of Moral Authority

• Is Oskar Schindler a Good Man?

• A Spielbergian Ethics of the Family in Saving Private Ryan and The Color Purple

• Human Rights, Human Nature, and Amistad

• Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and “The Story of What Happens Next” in Munich

Part III: Realism, Mind, and Metaphysics

• Spielberg and Cinematic Realism

• A.I.: Artificial Intelligence: Artistic Indulgence or Advanced Inquiry?

• Minority Report, Molinism, and the Viability of Precrime

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