Trifonova, Temenuga;
(2011)
Film and Skepticism: Stanley Cavell on the Ontology of Film.
Rivista di estetica
(46)
pp. 197-219.
10.4000/estetica.1653.
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Abstract
The present essay analyzes the reflections on the ontology of cinema in the works of Stanley Cavell. In particular, it highlights the way in which Cavell foresees in the philosophy of ordinary language as in Hollywood comedy, as many forms of that effort of redemption from the human condition which he calls skepticism, understood not so much as a philosophical position but rather as an underlying condition, as a reaction to the knowledge conceived as human knowledge, that is, experienced as potentially imperfect. Cinema, therefore, turns into an unveiling of the inadequacy of systematic philosophical frameworks and underlines the insufficiency of the interpretative patterns of research that either end up at an intellectualistic level or return, instead, to a mystic-intuitionist one.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Film and Skepticism: Stanley Cavell on the Ontology of Film |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.4000/estetica.1653 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.4000/estetica.1653 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Solamente il testo è utilizzabile con licenza CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Salvo diversa indicazione, per tutti agli altri elementi (illustrazioni, allegati importati) la copia non è autorizzata ("Tutti i diritti riservati"). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Arts and Sciences (BASc) |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10193936 |
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