Sam Girgus: 3 books
Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption
Time, Ethics, and the Feminine
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
In his philosophy of ethics and time, Emmanuel Levinas highlighted the tension that exists between the "ontological adventure" of immediate experience and the "ethical adventure" of redemptive relationships-associations in which absolute responsibility engenders a transcendence...
The Law of the Heart
Individualism and the Modern Self in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The Law of the Heart is a vigorous challenge to the prevailing concept of the “antidemocratic” image of the self in the American literary and cultural tradition. Sam B. Girgus counters this interpretation and attempts to develop a new understanding of democratic individualism and liberal humanism...
by Sam B. Girgus
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
The steady rise of Clint Eastwood’s career parallels a pressing desire in American society over the past five decades for a figure and story of purpose, meaning, and redemption. Eastwood has not only told and filmed that story, he has come to embody it for many in his public image and film persona....