Jahān-i falsafī-yi Istanlī Kūbrīk: Persian 1400

Over the course of fifty years, Stanley Kubrick was the director of some of the most haunting and unforgettable images in the world of cinema and filmmaking. His films fill a wide range of subjects with questions of human life, behavior, and emotions: love and relationship, war, crime, madness, technology, and social conditioning. In this wide variety of themes, Kubrick examines different aspects of reality and concentrates them in a rich philosophical perspective similar to existentialism. In almost all of Kubrick's films, the protagonist finds himself in conflict with a harsh and uncaring world, whether the conflict takes place in the natural world or in human institutions. Kubrick's war films explore how a man deals with his worst fears - especially the fear of death - in the face of the absurdity of war. The Philosophical World of Stanley Kubrick by Gerald J. Abrams explores Kubrick's interest in morality and fate and reveals the Stoic philosophy at the center of many of his films. Kubrick's films about the future suggest that a kind of active nihilism allows man to accept the absurdity of the world and move beyond it to form a free and creative vision of humanity. The essays collected in Gerald J. Abrams' The Philosophical World of Stanley Kubrick are a fascinating look at the director's serious view of an ever-changing moral and physical world.