Wittgenstein at the Movies

Béla Szabados is professor of philosophy at the University of Regina. He is co-editor of Wittgenstein Reads Weininger and co-author of Hypocrisy: Ethical Investigations and On the Track of Reason, among other publications.Christina Stojanova is assistant professor of media production and studies at the University of Regina.

• Chapter 1 Wittgenstein at the Movies: An IntroductionChapter 2 Chapter 1. Showing, Not Saying: Filming a Philosophical GeniusChapter 3 Chapter 2. Remarks on the Scripts for Derek Jarman's WittgensteinChapter 4 Chapter 3. The World Hued: Jarman and Wittgenstein on ColourChapter 5 Chapter 4. Sketches of Landscapes: Wittgenstein after WittgensteinChapter 6 Chapter 5. "How It Was Then": Home Movies as History in Péter Forgács's Meanwhile Somewhere…Chapter 7 Chapter 6. Meaning Through Pictures: Ludwig Wittgenstein and Péter ForgácsChapter 8 Chapter 7. Beyond Text and Image: Péter Forgács and his Wittgenstein Tractatus

Wittgenstein emphasized the role of showing beyond what can be said, and lamented his inability to present philosophy poetically. Movies are a medium for both of these techniques. Finally we have a collection of reflections on Wittgenstein in and at the movies that take these techniques seriously in concrete ways. The contributors are first-rate, and the topics are just what you would hope for.