Werner Herzog has produced some of the most powerful, haunting, and memorable images ever captured on film.
Eldridge unpacks and develops Herzog\'s achievement by bringing his work into engagement with the thinking of Freud, Merleau-Ponty, Nietzsche, Hegel, Cavell, and Benjamin, but more importantly also by attending closely to the logic and development of the films themselves and to Herzog\'s own extensive writings about filmmaking..
His films demonstrate the importance of the image in coming to terms with the plights of contemporary industrial and commercial culture.
In focusing on figures from Aguirre, Kasper Hauser, and Stroszek to Timothy Treadwell, Graham Dorrington, Dieter Dengler, and Walter Steiner, among many others, Herzog investigates the nature of human life in time and the possibilities of meaning that might be available within it.
Both his fiction films and his documentaries address fundamental issues about nature, selfhood, and history in ways that engage with but also criticize and qualify the best philosophical thinking about these topics.
Werner Herzog has produced some of the most powerful, haunting, and memorable images ever captured on film
