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Jeff Yoshimi
Nov 1, 2022, 5:27:58 PM11/1/22
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Hi everyone! It’s been a while since this list-server’s been used, so I thought I’d dust it off and publicize a talk happening here a week from tomorrow. Please distribute to anyone interested,
Jeff
The Problem of Truth in Literature and Cinema: Reflections on Heidegger
Robert Pippin
Wed November 9, 2022
UC Merced, Conference Center Room 110
Abstract: The problem of truth in literature and cinema (or painting or music) is whether there is any. Philosophers have been skeptical that there can be for two reasons. The first is that they think that only propositions asserted in judgments can be truth bearers, propositions we can understand before knowing whether they are true or false, and which are understood by knowing what it would be if they were true. The second reason is consequent upon the first: literature and movies do not assert anything. They are made up narratives about fictional beings. In this talk I want to introduce the claim by Martin Heidegger that there is a form of truth available in great literature and great cinema. The examples presented are one of his, a novel by Rainer Maria Rilke, and one of mine, Roman Polanski’s 1974 film, Chinatown.
Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books on modern German philosophy, a book on philosophy and literature, Henry James and Modern Moral Life; a book on modernist art, After the Beautiful, and five books on film and philosophy. He is a past winner of the Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award in the Humanities, a Guggenheim Fellowship, is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the American Philosophical Society, and is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina. His last two books are Filmed Thought: Cinema as Reflective Form, and Philosophy by Other Means: The Arts in Philosophy and Philosophy in the Arts, both published by University of Chicago Press.
Jeff
The Problem of Truth in Literature and Cinema: Reflections on Heidegger
Robert Pippin
Wed November 9, 2022
UC Merced, Conference Center Room 110
Abstract: The problem of truth in literature and cinema (or painting or music) is whether there is any. Philosophers have been skeptical that there can be for two reasons. The first is that they think that only propositions asserted in judgments can be truth bearers, propositions we can understand before knowing whether they are true or false, and which are understood by knowing what it would be if they were true. The second reason is consequent upon the first: literature and movies do not assert anything. They are made up narratives about fictional beings. In this talk I want to introduce the claim by Martin Heidegger that there is a form of truth available in great literature and great cinema. The examples presented are one of his, a novel by Rainer Maria Rilke, and one of mine, Roman Polanski’s 1974 film, Chinatown.
Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books on modern German philosophy, a book on philosophy and literature, Henry James and Modern Moral Life; a book on modernist art, After the Beautiful, and five books on film and philosophy. He is a past winner of the Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award in the Humanities, a Guggenheim Fellowship, is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the American Philosophical Society, and is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina. His last two books are Filmed Thought: Cinema as Reflective Form, and Philosophy by Other Means: The Arts in Philosophy and Philosophy in the Arts, both published by University of Chicago Press.
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