Wittgenstein at the Movies

Cinematic Investigations

Béla Szabados, Christina Stojanova (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

166 Seiten

2011
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-4885-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Chapter 1 Wittgenstein at the Movies: An Introduction
Chapter 2 Chapter 1. Showing, Not Saying: Filming a Philosophical Genius
Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Remarks on the Scripts for Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein
Chapter 4 Chapter 3. The World Hued: Jarman and Wittgenstein on Colour
Chapter 5 Chapter 4. Sketches of Landscapes: Wittgenstein after Wittgenstein
Chapter 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 Forgács
Chapter 8 Chapter 7. Beyond Text and Image: Péter Forgács and his Wittgenstein Tractatus

Co-Autor	Steven Burns, Andrew Lugg, William Lyons
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 239 mm
Gewicht	417 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	0-7391-4885-0 / 0739148850
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-4885-3 / 9780739148853
Zustand	Neuware