Spinoza and Cinematic Beatitude in Perrin and Cluzaud’s Les Saisons (2015)

Authors

  • Adrian Konik Nelson Mandela University, School of Language, Media and Culture, Department of Journalism, Media and Philosophy http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5233-3614

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25159/2413-3086/2930

Keywords:

Les Saisons, beatitude, cinema, imagination, reason, intuition, environmental film, movement-image, time-image

Abstract

This article advances Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud’s nature documentary Les Saisons (2015) as a film that, on account of its nuanced folding of what Gilles Deleuze calls movement- and time-images, presents an audio-visual scaffolding pointing beyond itself to the beatitude defined by Benedict Spinoza in terms of the third kind of intuitive knowledge. In this regard, the relationship between Spinoza’s philosophy and the theorisations of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari is elaborated upon, before the connections between Spinoza’s three kinds of knowledge and Deleuze’s Cinema 1: The Movement-Image and Cinema 2: The Time-Image, are thematised. Thereafter, it is argued that Perrin and Cluzaud’s Les Saisons constitutes a film that both reflects creative variants of Deleuze’s movement- and time-images, and folds them into each other in a way that points toward intuitions of Spinozan beatitude. 

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Published

2018-02-22

How to Cite

Konik, Adrian. 2017. “Spinoza and Cinematic Beatitude in Perrin and Cluzaud’s Les Saisons (2015)”. Phronimon 18:131-66. https://doi.org/10.25159/2413-3086/2930.

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Research Articles
Received 2017-07-12
Accepted 2018-02-07
Published 2018-02-22