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presents A Lecture by Dennis J. |
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"Like a fire that consumes all before it...."
| It is clear that words and images each belong to the deepest forms of thinking, but it is not clear that they shape what can be thought in the same way. Since Plato, there has been a deep distrust of the presence of images in thinking. In the Republic, he even argues that we do not think if we relate only to images. The influence of this argument can be seen in the philosophical mistrust that is expressed with regard to the achievements of art. But beginning with Kant and Nietzsche, we find the formulation of the claim that works of art might offer possibilities for thinking that are found in no other medium, culminating in the views of such thinkers as Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, Gadamer, and Derrida. Schmidt explores this issue by looking at the way in which the painter Cy Twombly has painted a series of images entitled "Fifty Days at Ilium" which are themselves commentaries on the respective possibilities of the word and of the image. |
Tuesday, 3:30 p.m., November 27, 2001 in EESAT 110
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The lecture is free and
open to the public. 565-2266 or philosophy@unt.edu. |
Schmidt is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. For many years prior to moving to Villanova, he was Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University where he was the Director of the Program in Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture. He has also taught at the University of Tuebingen in Germany. He is the author of Lyrical and Ethical Subjects: Essays on the Periphery of the Word, Freedom, and History (SUNY Press); On Germans and Other Greeks: Tragedy and Ethical Life (Indiana University Press); The Ubiquity of the Finite: Hegel: Heidegger and the Entitlements of Philosophy (MIT Press). Translator of Ernst Bloch's Natural Law and Human Dignity (MIT Press). He is the coeditor of Hermeneutische Wege: Hans-Georg Gadamer zum Hundertsten Geburtstag (Siebeck Verlag), and the editor of the SUNY Press "Series in Continental Philosophy." The book he is currently writing is on the history of the idea of nature in Western culture. |
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