Babette's Feast

Name: Babette's Feast
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SKU: 9781911239673
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By Dr Julian Baggini

Series: BFI Film Classics

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In Babette's Feast, Dr Julian Baggini delves into Gabriel Axel's 1989 film, exploring its intricate blend of religiosity and sensuality. The book offers a philosophical analysis of how love, pleasure, artistry, and grace intertwine, revealing a profound harmony rather than conflict between life-denying religion and life-affirming sensuality.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in film, philosophy, and cultural studies, as well as anyone fascinated by the interplay of art and spirituality.

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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, artistry, and grace, to provide a rich philosophical reading of this most sensual of films.

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Readers laud this study for its thoughtful insights and rich analysis. It has been described as a "slender treat" that nourishes minds without ever providing recipes, and as offering "ample food for thought." Publications such as Financial Times and Total Film praise it for its deep, reflective content.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781911239673

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 May 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: BFI Publishing

Illustration: 60 colour illus

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 6.0mm

Width: 134.0mm

Height: 188.0mm

Weight: 155g

Pages: 96

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Arts & Culture Dr Julian Baggini Non-Fiction Series: BFI Film Classics

About the Author

Julian Baggini is a British philosopher, and the author of several books about philosophy written for a general audience, including How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy (2018); A Short History of Truth: Consolations for a Post-Truth World (2018); The Edge of Reason: A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World (2017), and The Pig that Wants to be Eaten and 99 other thought experiments (2010). He is co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Philosopher’s Magazine. He is a contributor to the Guardian, BBC News Online, Prospect, Times Education Supplement, the Observer and New Humanist, and makes regular appearances on radio and television.