On the surface, The Philosophical Hitchcock: Vertigo and the
Anxieties of Unknowingness, is a close reading of Alfred
Hitchcock's 1958 masterpiece Vertigo. This, however, is a book by
Robert B. Pippin, one of our most penetrating and creative
philosophers, and so it is also much more. Even as he provides
detailed readings of each scene in the film, and its story of
obsession and fantasy, Pippin reflects more broadly on the modern
world depicted in Hitchcock's films. Hitchcock's characters, Pippin
shows us, repeatedly face problems and dangers rooted in our
general failure to understand others--or even ourselves--very well,
or to make effective use of what little we do understand. Vertigo,
with its impersonations, deceptions, and fantasies, embodies a
general, common struggle for mutual understanding in the late
modern social world of ever more complex dependencies. By treating
this problem through a filmed fictional narrative, rather than
discursively, Pippin argues, Hitchcock is able to help us see the
systematic and deep mutual misunderstanding and self-deceit that we
are subject to when we try to establish the knowledge necessary for
love, trust, and commitment, and what it might be to live in such a
state of unknowingness. A bold, brilliant exploration of one of the
most admired works of cinema, The Philosophical Hitchcock will lead
philosophers and cinephiles alike to a new appreciation of Vertigo
and its meanings.
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