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Films

Film Socialisme

Sean Gittins has a different view of film, courtesy of Jean-Luc Godard.

Many philosophers of the twentieth century phrased questions of philosophy as if they were questions of language. This practice began in the analytic (Anglo-Saxon) tradition late in the nineteenth century, with the ‘linguistic turn’ initiated by Frege; whereas the continental approach was heavily influenced by Peirce and Saussure’s semiotics and Roman Jakobson’s and Claude Levi-Strauss’s structuralism. Of the two, the continental approach proved the most keen to ask thoughtful questions in and of the arts. It thus formed the background thinking which many of the most philosophical artists, filmmakers and writers of the twentieth century drew on in their works.

Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx, three of the key thinkers informing continental philosophy, ushered in questions about subjectivity, and at its core language itself.

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