Techne of Giving
Subtitle: Cinema and the Generous Form of Life
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780823273256
Subjects: Political science, philosophy
Description: "In techne of giving, Timothy Campbell elaborates a notion of generosity as way of responding to contemporary biopower. Reading films from Visconti, Rossellini, and Antonioni, he both updates their political lexicon while adopting them as models able to push back against neoliberal forms of gift-giving"--