Las razones del filósofo Stanley Cavell y el medio cinematográfico

• Autores: Pablo Echart Orús
• Localización: Archivos de la filmoteca: revista de estudios históricos sobre la imagen, ISSN 0214-6606, Nº 53, 2006 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Notas a la vanguardia norteamericana de posguerra; Teoría del actor en el cine de Weimar), págs. 198-215
• Idioma: español
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  • The reasons of the philosopher: Stanley Cavell and cinema
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  • The recent publication of Cities of Words (2004) and of Cavell on Film (2005) contributes to clarify the reasons behind Stanley Cavell’s placing of cinema at the centre of his philosophical project. Cavell, who with his methods and anxieties is always swimming against the tide, paid attention to certain classic Hollywood comedies and melodramas, which are notoriously in tune with the moral philosophy of R. W. Emerson. In his readings of these films, Cavell emphasises the decisiveness of the identifying processes experienced by the main characters, intent on finding and preserving their authentic ego