scholarly journals Cinema and Philosophical Education: from Wittgenstein to Deleuze

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Jūratė Baranova
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
The Other ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Stanley Cavell ◽  
Philosophical Education ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Philosophical Questions

Bruce Russell argues, that cinema cannot create the philosophical knowledge for the reason that the answers to philosophical questions are contradictory and not obvious, the explicit argumentation is needed if the person is inclined to give justified answers to philosophical questions. Given examples are not satisfactory for philosophizing. On the other hand Slavoj Žižek, Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze seems do not see this obvious gap between cinema and philosophy. They discuss the cinema as philosophy. What presumptions are needed for this approach? How this approach could be adapted in the philosophy education?

scholarly journals NIETZSCHE IR WITTGENSTEINAS: KINEMATOGRAFINĖS PARAŠTĖS

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 58-78
Author(s):  
Jūratė Baranova
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
The Other ◽  
Philosophical Thinking ◽  
Stanley Cavell ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Philosophical Aspect ◽  
Derek Jarman ◽  
Cinematic Experience ◽  
Good And Evil

Kodėl ir kaip Friedrichas Nietzsche ir Ludwigas Wittgensteinas inspiravo Stanley Cavello ir Gilles’io Deleuze’o kino filosofijos tapsmą? Kuo artimos ir kuo skiriasi šios dvi kino filosofijos kryptys? Kuo skiriasi paties kinematografo sukurti Nietzsche’s ir Wittgensteino įvaizdžiai? Kodėl kinematografas išskirtinai domisi šiomis dviem filosofinėmis figūromis? Kadangi tarp pirmųjų dviejų klausimų ir paskutinių nėra aiškaus loginio ar priežastinio susietumo, tyrimą vadinsime kinematografinėmis paraštėmis.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: kino filosofija, Nietzsche, Wittgensteinas, Stanley Cavellas, Gilles’is Deleuze’as, Liliana Cavani, Derekas Jarmanas.NIETZSCHE AND WITTGENSTEIN: CINEMATIC MARGINSJūratė BaranovaSummaryThe article consists of two logically independent parts. The first one deals with the influence of Wittgenstein and Nietzsche on the philosophy of cinema of Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze, presupposing that the first one was more influenced by the former and the other one by the latter. The article also expresses some attempts to compare the two philosophies of cinema. The author discerns one common aspect: in opposition to the analytical and phenomenological trend, they both do not question the nature of cinematic experience and the intentionalism / nonintentionalism dilemma. On the other hand, they expose two different attitudes towards the meeting of thought and emotion in cinema practice. A detailed analysis of the integration of Nietszchean ideas in Deleuze’s philosophy of cinema reveals several possibilities for philosophy and cinema to meet. Firstly, the interpreter is able to use philosophical concepts for the experimental explanation of cinema; secondly, one can see cinema and philosophy as one problemic tisssue; thirdly, it is possible to consider (reasonably or not) some philosophical insights as an intention of the cinema director. The other part of the article is devoted to the image of Nietszche and Wittgesntein in the art of cinema, created by Liliana Cavani and Derek Jarman. The analysis shows that not all movies about philosophers have something to do with philosophy itself. The author discusses the four movies created by Cavani (The Night Porter (1974), Beyond Good and Evil (1977), The Berlin Affair (1983), Francesco (1989)), and concludes that one cannot discern any philosophical aspect in the movie Beyond Good and Evil on Nietzsche’s biography. On the other hand, it doesnot mean that biographical movies have nothing to do with philosophy. Derek Jarman’s movie Wittgesntein (1993) demonstrates the possibility of a creative integration of philosophical thinking into the tissue of the experimental cinema.Keywords: philosophy of cinema, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell, Gilles Deleuze, Liliana Cavani, Derek Jarman.

scholarly journals WHO WAS THE FIRST PHILOSOPHER? OR, HOW MANY PHILOSOPHERS DOES IT TAKE?

Think ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (46) ◽  
pp. 51-57
Author(s):  
James Alexander
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Two Sides

The first philosopher is usually said to have been Thales. Raymond Geuss has recently suggested that it was not Thales but Oedipus (and the Sphinx), on the grounds that ‘It takes two’ for philosophy to exist. Slavoj Žižek, on the other hand, has suggested that ‘It takes one’: in which case the first philosopher may well have been Thales. Here I argue that ‘It takes three’ and that the first philosopher was not the first to have a vision, and not the first to answer a riddle, but the first to hear two sides of a question and make sense of both.

Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Individuation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Hengehold
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
The Other ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Second Sex ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World

Most studies of Simone de Beauvoir situate her with respect to Hegel and the tradition of 20th-century phenomenology begun by Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty. This book analyzes The Second Sex in light of the concepts of becoming, problematization, and the Other found in Gilles Deleuze. Reading Beauvoir through a Deleuzian lens allows more emphasis to be placed on Beauvoir's early interest in Bergson and Leibniz, and on the individuation of consciousness, a puzzle of continuing interest to both phenomenologists and Deleuzians. By engaging with the philosophical issues in her novels and student diaries, this book rethinks Beauvoir’s focus on recognition in The Second Sex in terms of women’s struggle to individuate themselves despite sexist forms of representation. It shows how specific forms of women’s “lived experience” can be understood as the result of habits conforming to and resisting this sexist “sense.” Later feminists put forward important criticisms regarding Beauvoir’s claims not to be a philosopher, as well as the value of sexual difference and the supposedly Eurocentric universalism of her thought. Deleuzians, on the other hand, might well object to her ideas about recognition. This book attempts to address those criticisms, while challenging the historicist assumptions behind many efforts to establish Beauvoir’s significance as a philosopher and feminist thinker. As a result, readers can establish a productive relationship between Beauvoir’s “problems” and those of women around the world who read her work under very different circumstances.

Borat, Multiculturalism,Mnogonatsional'nost

Slavic Review ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven S. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

In this article, Sacha Baron Cohen'sBoratappears as just the latest in a decades- long exchange between American and Soviet models of minority uplift: on the one side, civil rights and multiculturalism; on the other,druzhba narodov(the friendship of peoples) andmnogonatsional'nost’(multi-national- ness). Steven S. Lee argues diat, with Borat, multiculturalism seems to have emerged as the victor in this exchange, but that the film also hearkens to a not-too-distant Soviet alternative. Part 1 shows how Borat gels with recent leftist critiques of multiculturalism, spearheaded by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj żižek. Part 2 relates Borat to a largely submerged history of American minorities drawing hope from mnogonatsional'nost', as celebrated in Grigorii Aleksandrov's 1936 filmCircus.The final part presents Borat as choosing neither multiculturalism nor mnogonatsional'nost', but rather the continued opposition of the two, if not a “third way.” For a glimpse of what this might look like, the paper concludes with a discussion ofAbsurdistan(2006) by Soviet Jewish American novelist Gary Shteyngart.

Inside the Zone

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-64
Author(s):  
Jon Hoel
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Soren Kierkegaard ◽  
Film Theory ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
Nuclear Age

This is the largest chapter in the book and takes a closer look at the mysterious ineffable Zone that exists at the center of the film’s narrative. What is the Zone, and are we in it, is the central question posed by the chapter, and brings into conversation a larger framework of film theory, including analyses from thinkers like Gilles Deleuze, Søren Kierkegaard, and Slavoj Žižek among others. The film examines the speculative space of the Room, and what the prospect of its power: the ability to grant the greatest inner desire of its occupants. Is this power real? The film plays with this question, along with imagery of potential speculative radiation consequences of the nuclear age, with careful allusions to Soviet nuclear disasters of the time.

scholarly journals Quiet Refusals: Androids as Others in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Nima Behroozi Moghadam ◽  
Farideh Porugiv
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
The Other ◽  
Real Point ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
The Real ◽  
Objet Petit A ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
Cultural Theorist ◽  
The Way

This study intends to show how science fiction literature in general and Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in particular can be read as a symptom of the postmodern era we live in. Taking as the main clues the ideas of the cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek, who combines Marxism with the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan, as well as his account of “postmodernism,” the study discusses how, contrary to what capitalism dubs a “post-ideological” era, we are more than ever dominated by ideology through its cynical function. It further examines (through such Lacanian concepts as fantasy, desire, objet petit a, and jouissance) the way late capitalistic ideology functions in Dick’s narrative, and discusses how the multiculturalist society prompts new forms of racism through abstract universalization which only accounts for and tolerates the other as long as they appear within the confines of that formal abstraction. Finally, it looks into how ideologies as such can be subverted from the Real point within the symbolic.

Between order and insurgency: Post-structuralism and the problem of justice

2020 ◽  
pp. 019145372093190
Author(s):  
George Sotiropoulos
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
The Other ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Material Texture ◽  
The One

Faced with the apologetic and exclusionary tendencies of liberal normativism, there is a marked trend in political theory to recover a more critical conception of justice, which does not adopt the dismissive attitude of traditional Marxism. In this context, the legacy of post-structuralism has been ambivalent. On the one hand, the work of thinkers such as Jacque Derrida, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze has helped to shape the direction of the relevant discourse. On the other hand, post-structuralist critiques of political normativism have been often accused of leading to a subsumption of justice to power. Contributing to the ongoing discussion, my article explores the insights of Derrida, Foucault and Deleuze and assembles them into a coherent line of analysis. The main argument advanced is that post-structuralist thought provides a fertile basis for a critical concept of justice, which foregrounds the notion’s material texture without forfeiting its normative and ethical traits.

The Universalist Dimensions of Antagonism

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-74
Author(s):  
Ilan Kapoor
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
The Subject ◽  
European Refugee Crisis ◽  
The One

This chapter focuses on two recent controversies in which Slavoj Žižek has been embroiled — the European refugee crisis and the issue of Eurocentrism — to illustrate the two universalist dimensions of antagonism. The two controversies are, of course, directly pertinent to international development, since the one (the refugee crisis) is closely entwined with North–South relations and the global politics of inequality, while the other (Eurocentrism) is a key cause of concern for those (postcolonial, decolonial) development theorists and practitioners focusing on continuing patterns of Western domination. Žižek's stand on both issues has been the subject of notable disapproval, if not denunciation. Critics reproach him for being Eurocentric and even racist, charges which he has repeatedly countered. The chapter examines the differing theoretical and political positions in these debates, underlining what Žižek's critics miss or misunderstand about the key notion of antagonism.

Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear

2019 ◽  
pp. 24-61
Author(s):  
Šarūnas Paunksnis
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
The Other ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
Urban Periphery ◽  
Hindi Cinema ◽  
Neoliberal India

The chapter looks at the problem of urban centre and the periphery, as well as the production of the Other in neoliberal India and new Hindi cinema. The Other here means one that is outside of the new emergent middle class—it can be a rural otherness, but often—the urban, deprived lower orders of the society. Drawing heavily upon psychoanalysis and the work of Slavoj Žižek, the chapter theorizes the insecurity of the urban middle class and its relationship to its Other, and the urban periphery by taking films NH10 and Highway as key examples.

Untranslatable Community: Toward a Gothic Way of Speaking

2019 ◽  
pp. 127-150
Author(s):  
Reiko Shindo
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Traditional Form ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
People Search ◽  
Do So

This chapter examines how the various ways of dealing with the mismatch between visibility and audibility help one to imagine a social space centred on the failure of communication, or untranslatability. To do so, it considers the writings of Jean-Luc Nancy, Bonnie Honig, and Slavoj Žižek. Nancy theorises community in relation to failed communication, whereas Honig and Žižek focus on uncertainty as a key affective device to discuss the link between community and unintelligibility. Built on their works, the chapter develops an understanding of belonging centred on a gothic mode of relationality where people relate to one another based on ‘not knowing’ others let alone themselves. Unlike a traditional form of belonging to a community where people search commonality through intelligible communication between the self and the other, the gothic mode of belonging is realised in people's own inability to translate their voice, in the failure to achieve intelligibility.

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