Wittgenstein at the Movies Cinematic Investigations

Ludwig Wittgenstein loved movies, and based on his remarks on watching them, there is a strong connection between his experience of watching films and his thoughts on aesthetics. Furthermore, however, Wittgenstein himself has been invoked in recent cinema. Wittgenstein at the Movies is centered on in-depth explorations of two intriguing experimental films on Wittgenstein: Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein and Péter Forgács' Wittgenstein Tractatus. The featured essays look at cinematic interpretations of Wittgenstein's life and philosophy in a manner bound to provoke the lively interest of Wittgenstein scholars, film theorists, and students of film aesthetics. As well, the book engages a broader audience concerned with philosophical issues about film and Wittgenstein's cultural significance, with the world of fin-de-siècle Vienna, of Cambridge in the first half of the twentieth century, of artistic modernism.

Bla Szabados is professor of philosophy at the University of Regina. He is coeditor of Wittgenstein Reads Weininger and coauthor of Hypocrisy: Ethical Investigations and On the Track of Reason, among other publications. Christina Stojanova teaches film and media studies at the University of Regina. She is coeditor of The Legacies of Jean-Luc Godard and coauthor of New Romanian Cinema.