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Nahezu neuwertig erhalten. Written and produced under martial law in 1980?s Communist Poland, Krzysztof Kieslowski?s Decalogue presents 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 The Decalogue are 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: Kieslowski?s protagonists break the Commandments in a fractured world drained of meaning. Disintegration functions as a multidimensional principle?moral, historical, social, and psychological?informing The Decalogue?s conception, organization, and style. In analyzing these features the study draws on a wide range of philosophical, literary and psychoanalytic inter-texts. Introduction Chapter 1 Language and Silence in Decalogue One Chapter 2 The Ruptured World of Decalogue Two Chapter 3 Taking the Long Way Home: Decalogue Three Chapter 4 The Death of Authority in Decalogue Four Chapter 5 Mistakes of a Huge Machine: Murder and Injustice in Decalogue Five Chapter 6 Disrupting the Gaze in Decalogue Six Chapter 7 Fractured Fairy Tales: Stolen Childhood in Decalogue Seven Chapter 8 Dislocated Histories: Bearing Witness in Decalogue Eight Chapter 9 Divine Possession: Metaphysical Covetousness in Decalogue Nine Chapter 10 A Broken Series: Decalogue Ten Index ISBN 9783034351188