For nothing is concealed! Motion picture, Wittgenstein, and seeing-as

Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetic 44 (3):54-61 (2021)
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Abstract

According to Wittgenstein’s claim that our “seeing a thing as” is strongly dependent on what he calls “world-picture” and vice versa, motion pictures present “surveyable repres- entations” of our world-picture and therefore influence the way we see the world. Insofar as understanding means to see coherences, motion pictures help humans understand world-pictures. But the insights imparted by motion pictures are not of a mere cognitive kind, since motion pictures do not present arguments. By making use of imaginative identification they have such an impact on humans that they directly “embody” insights and thereby changing what is accepted as knowledge within a world-picture.

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Thomas Wachtendorf
University of Oldenburg

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