Alexander García Düttmann is Professor of Philosophy and Visual Culture at Goldsmiths (University of London). He is the author of At Odds with AIDS: Thinking and Talking about a Virus (Stanford, 1997), Between Cultures: Tensions in the Struggle of Recognition (Verso, 2000), The Memory of Thought: An Essay on Adorno and Heidegger (Continuum 2002), and Philosophy of Exaggeration (Continuum, 2007).

• @fmct:Contents @toc2:1Intention and Aesthetic Seriousness1 2In Cinematic Circles000 3Obstructive Possibilities; or, Reality as Utopia000 4Recognition of a Change000 Envoi000 Afterword: On the Genesis of Insights into Flesh and Blood 000 @toc4:Notes000 Filmography000 Index000

"Düttmann's fine study is one of those rare books that combine the conceptual rigor of the philosopher with the aesthetic sensitivity of the artist in order to yield a text both highly illuminating and poetic in its own way. Visconti: Insights into Flesh and Blood is much more than a conventional study of a canonical Italian filmmaker: it is an original work situated at a level of analytical subtlety and sustained reflection that make it one of the most interesting books of aesthetic theory in recent years." —Gerhard Richter, University of California at Davis

Alexander García Düttmann is Professor of Philosophy and Visual Culture at Goldsmiths (University of London). He is the author of At Odds with AIDS: Thinking and Talking about a Virus (Stanford, 1997), Between Cultures: Tensions in the Struggle of Recognition (Verso, 2000), The Memory of Thought: An Essay on Adorno and Heidegger (Continuum 2002), and Philosophy of Exaggeration (Continuum, 2007).

• @fmct:Contents @toc2:1Intention and Aesthetic Seriousness1 2In Cinematic Circles000 3Obstructive Possibilities; or, Reality as Utopia000 4Recognition of a Change000 Envoi000 Afterword: On the Genesis of Insights into Flesh and Blood 000 @toc4:Notes000 Filmography000 Index000

"Düttmann's fine study is one of those rare books that combine the conceptual rigor of the philosopher with the aesthetic sensitivity of the artist in order to yield a text both highly illuminating and poetic in its own way. Visconti: Insights into Flesh and Blood is much more than a conventional study of a canonical Italian filmmaker: it is an original work situated at a level of analytical subtlety and sustained reflection that make it one of the most interesting books of aesthetic theory in recent years." —Gerhard Richter, University of California at Davis

Alexander García Düttmann is Professor of Philosophy and Visual Culture at Goldsmiths (University of London). He is the author of At Odds with AIDS: Thinking and Talking about a Virus (Stanford, 1997), Between Cultures: Tensions in the Struggle of Recognition (Verso, 2000), The Memory of Thought: An Essay on Adorno and Heidegger (Continuum 2002), and Philosophy of Exaggeration (Continuum, 2007).

• @fmct:Contents @toc2:1Intention and Aesthetic Seriousness1 2In Cinematic Circles000 3Obstructive Possibilities; or, Reality as Utopia000 4Recognition of a Change000 Envoi000 Afterword: On the Genesis of Insights into Flesh and Blood 000 @toc4:Notes000 Filmography000 Index000

"Düttmann's fine study is one of those rare books that combine the conceptual rigor of the philosopher with the aesthetic sensitivity of the artist in order to yield a text both highly illuminating and poetic in its own way. Visconti: Insights into Flesh and Blood is much more than a conventional study of a canonical Italian filmmaker: it is an original work situated at a level of analytical subtlety and sustained reflection that make it one of the most interesting books of aesthetic theory in recent years." —Gerhard Richter, University of California at Davis