{"product_id":"kieslowskis-decalogue-philip-sicker-9783034351188","title":"Kieslowski's Decalogue: Broken Commandments, Shattered Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten and produced under martial law in 1980's Communist Poland, Krzysztof Kieślowski's \u003ci\u003eDecalogue \u003c\/i\u003epresents a collective portrait of a demoralized nation populated by gloomy individualists\" who respond to other people with antagonism or indifference. Feeling betrayed by a history of brutal invasions, the series' characters struggle to cast off a legacy of a bitterness that has arisen because their national hopes have been so frequently shattered. Yet the central questions that animate \u003ci\u003eThe Decalogue \u003c\/i\u003eare not political but ethical and ontological: How should one live? And why should one live at all in an atomized civilization? In exploring these questions in relation to the Ten Commandments, the series' unifying principle is, paradoxically, disintegration: Kieślowski's protagonists break the Commandments in a fractured world drained of meaning. Disintegration functions as a multidimensional principle-moral, historical, social, and psychological-informing \u003ci\u003eThe Decalogue's \u003c\/i\u003econception, organization, and style. In analyzing these features the study draws on a wide range of philosophical, literary and psychoanalytic inter-texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip Sicker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3034351186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783034351188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/14\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d","brand":"Philip Sicker","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48659539984639,"sku":"9783034351188","price":94.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/kieslowskis-decalogue-philip-sicker-9783034351188","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}