Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts

by Richard Allen

This pioneering work investigates the profound implications of Wittgenstein's philosophy to the practice, theory and criticism of the arts. The essays exemplify Wittgenstein's method of conceptual investigation and highlight his notion of philosophy as a cure.

Genres: Philosophy, Art

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First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Richard William Allen is the Dean of School o­­f Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong and Chair/Professor of Film and Media Art. Previously he was a Professor of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. He is author and editor of 9 books on film theory and aesthetics. He is author of Projecting Illusion and the editor of two volumes on the philosophy of film and the arts: Film Theory and Philosophy, and Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts. He is a leading authority on Hitchcock and wrote an influential book, Hitchcock’s Romantic Irony. He is currently completing Bollywood Poetics and beginning a longer-term project on The Passion of Christ and the Melodramatic Imagination. He is a fellow of the Society for the Cognitive Study of Moving Image, and was for many years an editor of the Hitchcock Annual.

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Allen, Richard, 1959-
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Reviews

[Suzanna · Rating 1 out of 5]

This guy taught at Sarah Lawrence in 2005/2006 and was the most abusive, misogynistic, hateful, degrading human being I have ever had to deal with in academia. He has absolutely no business teaching and I’m glad they fired him. He was verbally abusive to me to the point I had to ask another faculty member to intervene on my behalf as he was quite threatening and a bully and accused me of being lazy and stupid. I’m glad they managed to pawn him off on Tufts who no doubt celebrate such toxicity.