Theory has been an embattled discourse in the academy for
decades. But now it faces a serious challenge from those who want
to model the analytical methods of all scholarly disciplines on the
natural sciences. What is urgently needed, says D. N. Rodowick, is
a revitalized concept of theory that can assess the limits of
scientific explanation and defend the unique"character of
humanistic understanding.
Philosophy s Artful Conversation" is a timely and searching
examination of theory s role in the arts and humanities today.
Expanding the insights of his earlier book, Elegy for Theory," and
drawing on the diverse thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. H. von
Wright, P. M. S. Hacker, Richard Rorty, and Charles Taylor,
Rodowick provides a blueprint of what he calls a philosophy of the
humanities. In a surprising and illuminating turn, he views the
historical emergence of theory through the lens of film theory,
arguing that aesthetics, literary studies, and cinema studies
cannot be separated where questions of theory are concerned. These
discourses comprise a conceptual whole, providing an overarching
model of critique that resembles, in embryonic form, what a new
philosophy of the humanities might look like.
Rodowick offers original readings of Gilles Deleuze and Stanley
Cavell, bringing forward unexamined points of contact between two
thinkers who associate philosophical expression with film and the
arts. A major contribution to cross-disciplinary intellectual
history, Philosophy s Artful Conversation" reveals the many threads
connecting the arts and humanities with the history of
philosophy."
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