Wittgenstein at the Movies

Cinematic Investigations

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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Beskrivning

Ludwig Wittgenstein loved movies, and based on his remarks on watching them, there is a strong connection between his experience of watching films and his thoughts on aesthetics. Furthermore, however, Wittgenstein himself has been invoked in recent cinema. Wittgenstein at the Movies is centered on in-depth explorations of two intriguing experimental films on Wittgenstein: Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein and Péter Forgács' Wittgenstein Tractatus. The featured essays look at cinematic interpretations of Wittgenstein's life and philosophy in a manner bound to provoke the lively interest of Wittgenstein scholars, film theorists, and students of film aesthetics. As well, the book engages a broader audience concerned with philosophical issues about film and Wittgenstein's cultural significance, with the world of fin-de-siècle Vienna, of Cambridge in the first half of the twentieth century, of artistic modernism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-03-24
Mått:162 x 239 x 17 mm
Vikt:417 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:166
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739148853

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Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Béla Szabados is professor of philosophy at the University of Regina. He is co-editor of Wittgenstein Reads Weininger and co-author of Hypocrisy: Ethical Investigations and On the Track of Reason, among other publications.Christina Stojanova is assistant professor of media production and studies at the University of Regina.

Recensioner i media

Wittgenstein emphasized the role of showing beyond what can be said, and lamented his inability to present philosophy poetically. Movies are a medium for both of these techniques. Finally we have a collection of reflections on Wittgenstein in and at the movies that take these techniques seriously in concrete ways. The contributors are first-rate, and the topics are just what you would hope for.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 Wittgenstein at the Movies: An IntroductionChapter 2 Chapter 1. Showing, Not Saying: Filming a Philosophical GeniusChapter 3 Chapter 2. Remarks on the Scripts for Derek Jarman's WittgensteinChapter 4 Chapter 3. The World Hued: Jarman and Wittgenstein on ColourChapter 5 Chapter 4. Sketches of Landscapes: Wittgenstein after WittgensteinChapter 6 Chapter 5. "How It Was Then": Home Movies as History in Péter Forgács's Meanwhile Somewhere…Chapter 7 Chapter 6. Meaning Through Pictures: Ludwig Wittgenstein and Péter ForgácsChapter 8 Chapter 7. Beyond Text and Image: Péter Forgács and his Wittgenstein Tractatus