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The Dictionaries In Which We Learn To Think, Timothy Flanagan Dr.
The Dictionaries In Which We Learn To Think, Timothy Flanagan Dr.
Philosophy Papers and Journal Articles
Taking its title from the discussion of a ‘new Meno’ to be found in Difference and Repetition, through an examination of the link between learning and thinking set out across Deleuze's work this paper charts the important sense in which philosophical thought is characterised by an apprenticeship. The claim is that just as certain aesthetic and biological processes involve inscrutable and non-resembling elements that cannot be known in advance, the experience of learning is one oriented by unforseen encounters. With a view to a peculiarly heuristic use of dictionaries in the case of language learning, the paper shows how …
Thoughts On Film: Critically Engaging With Both Adorno And Benjamin, Laura D'Olimpio
Thoughts On Film: Critically Engaging With Both Adorno And Benjamin, Laura D'Olimpio
Philosophy Papers and Journal Articles
There is a traditional debate in analytic aesthetics that surrounds the classification of film as Art. While much philosophy devoted to considering film has now moved beyond this debate and accepts film as a mass art, a sub-category of Art proper, it is worth re-considering the criticism of film pre-Deleuze. Much of the criticism of film as pseudo-art is expressed in moral terms. T. W. Adorno, for example, critiques film as ‘mass-cult’; mass produced culture which presents a ‘flattened’ version of reality. Adorno worries about the passivity encouraged in viewers. Films are narrative artworks, received by an audience in a …