Draws from twentieth-century French thought on film and aesthetics to address the philosophical significance of the pervasiveness of screens in contemporary technological life as well as the mutation of philosophy that such a pervasiveness seems to require.

List of Illustrations Preface: In The Light of Our Screens Acknowledgments Part I. What Is a “Philosophy-Cinema?” 1. Sartre and Deleuze via Bergson 2. The Philosopher and the Moviemaker: Merleau-Ponty and the Meaning of Cinema 3. The Torn Curtain: Lyotard, the Screen, and a Cinema Named Desire Part II. The Animated Life of Screens 4. Delimiting to Exceed: The Theme of the “Arche-Screen”Founding Itself with Its Variants 5. Come Live with Me: The Seduction of the Screens Today 6. Making Philosophy among and through the Screens Notes Index

"Carbone's book, while quite dense and challenging, offers a number of profound insights into the advent and contemporary life of screens. One picking up this text should not expect an easy read, but it is a book that rewards careful study … the book deserves to be considered as a vital primary source for philosophy's reckoning with the significance of screens." — Philosophy in Review"Carbone's most recent work, now available in English, marks a critical moment in the author's philosophical development: the passage from an original reader and interpreter of Proust and Maurice Merleau-Ponty to a completely original contribution to the history of philosophy … Philosophy-Screens … opens the way for a philosophy that will perhaps be the new standard for thinkers yet to come." — Phenomenological Reviews"Bringing continental philosophy and phenomenological studies to bear on contemporary media studies and film theory, Philosophy-Screens should prompt further contributions on the screens and desires that fill our perceptual universe." — Critical Inquiry"In the end, this book remains a study more invested in psychology, history, culture, materialism, and corporeality—enough, certainly, for one such slender text. And, for now, we shall have to be satisfied with this impressive study of our screens…" — Screen Bodies"Mauro Carbone is one of the very best interpreters of French philosophy in general and aesthetics in particular. This book furthers recent research he has undertaken on cinema and more specifically its significance both in twentieth-century debates in philosophy and its role in our cultural experience. This is an insightful and informative book and will be of interest to a broad spectrum of readers." — Stephen Watson, University of Notre Dame