Babette's feast

Babette's feast

by Baggini, Julian

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"On the face of it, Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast (1989) is a film in which the eyes - and mouths - of religious zealots are opened to the glories of the sensual world. It is a critique of what Nietzsche called life-denying religion in favour of life-affirming sensuality. But to view the film in that way is to get it profoundly wrong. In his study of the film, Julian Baggini argues that Babette's Feast is not about the battle between religiosity and secularity but a deep examination of how the…

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  • Full title :Babette's feast / Julian Baggini.

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"On the face of it, Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast (1989) is a film in which the eyes - and mouths - of religious zealots are opened to the glories of the sensual world. It is a critique of what Nietzsche called life-denying religion in favour of life-affirming sensuality. But to view the film in that way is to get it profoundly wrong. In his study of the film, Julian Baggini argues that Babette's Feast is not about the battle between religiosity and secularity but a deep examination of how the two can come together. Baggini's analysis focuses on themes of love, pleasure, artisty and grace, to provide a rich philosophical reading of this most sensual of films."--

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  • Publication Date:©2020

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (vi, 90 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781838719906, 1838719903, 9781911239680, 1911239686, 1911239694, 9781911239697
  • DOI:10.5040/9781838719906
  • oclc:on1142371694
  • LC Classification:PT8175.B545
  • Dewey Decimal:839.81372

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Mortal Illusions -- 2 Love -- 3 Pleasure -- 4 The Artist -- 5 Grace -- Conclusion: The Religion of the Immanent -- Notes -- Credits -- Bibliography

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Subjects

Axel, Gabriel Babettes gæstebud (Motion picture) Criticism, interpretation, etc Dinesen, Isak Film theory & criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- European PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video

Writers

Baggini, Julian

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