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The Ashtray

(Or the Man Who Denied Reality)
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
192 Seiten
Englisch
The University of Chicago Presserschienen am17.02.2023
Filmmaker Errol Morris offers his perspective on the world and his powerful belief in the necessity of truth.  In 1972, philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn threw an ashtray at Errol Morris. This book is the result.   At the time, Morris was a graduate student. Now we know him as one of the most celebrated and restlessly probing filmmakers of our time, the creator of such classics of documentary investigation as The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War. Kuhn, meanwhile, was-and, posthumously, remains-a star in his field, the author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, a landmark book that has sold well over a million copies and introduced the concept of paradigm shifts to the larger culture. And Morris thought the idea was bunk.  The Ashtray tells why-and in doing so, it makes a powerful case for Morris´s way of viewing the world, and the centrality to that view of a fundamental conception of the necessity of truth. For me, Morris writes, truth is about the relationship between language and the world: a correspondence idea of truth. He has no patience for philosophical systems that aim for internal coherence and disdain the world itself. Morris is after bigger game: he wants to establish as clearly as possible what we know and can say about the world, reality, history, our actions and interactions. It´s the fundamental desire that animates his filmmaking, whether he´s probing Robert McNamara about Vietnam or the oddball owner of a pet cemetery. Truth may be slippery, but that doesn´t mean we have to grease its path of escape through philosophical evasions. Rather, Morris argues powerfully, it is our duty to do everything we can to establish and support it.   In a time when truth feels ever more embattled, under siege from political lies and virtual lives alike, The Ashtray is a bracing reminder of its value, delivered by a figure who has, over decades, uniquely earned our trust through his commitment to truth. No Morris fan should miss it.mehr
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KlappentextFilmmaker Errol Morris offers his perspective on the world and his powerful belief in the necessity of truth.  In 1972, philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn threw an ashtray at Errol Morris. This book is the result.   At the time, Morris was a graduate student. Now we know him as one of the most celebrated and restlessly probing filmmakers of our time, the creator of such classics of documentary investigation as The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War. Kuhn, meanwhile, was-and, posthumously, remains-a star in his field, the author of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, a landmark book that has sold well over a million copies and introduced the concept of paradigm shifts to the larger culture. And Morris thought the idea was bunk.  The Ashtray tells why-and in doing so, it makes a powerful case for Morris´s way of viewing the world, and the centrality to that view of a fundamental conception of the necessity of truth. For me, Morris writes, truth is about the relationship between language and the world: a correspondence idea of truth. He has no patience for philosophical systems that aim for internal coherence and disdain the world itself. Morris is after bigger game: he wants to establish as clearly as possible what we know and can say about the world, reality, history, our actions and interactions. It´s the fundamental desire that animates his filmmaking, whether he´s probing Robert McNamara about Vietnam or the oddball owner of a pet cemetery. Truth may be slippery, but that doesn´t mean we have to grease its path of escape through philosophical evasions. Rather, Morris argues powerfully, it is our duty to do everything we can to establish and support it.   In a time when truth feels ever more embattled, under siege from political lies and virtual lives alike, The Ashtray is a bracing reminder of its value, delivered by a figure who has, over decades, uniquely earned our trust through his commitment to truth. No Morris fan should miss it.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-226-92269-0
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2023
Erscheinungsdatum17.02.2023
Seiten192 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 254 mm, Höhe 203 mm, Dicke 17 mm
Gewicht766 g
Artikel-Nr.58855261

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1: The Ultimatum 2: Shifting Paradigms 3: A Parliament of Fears 4: Listen, Old Man, What in Hell´s Gone Wrong Here? 5: Revolutions, Real and Imagined 6: The Leap into the Dark 7: The Furniture of the World 8: Avatars of Progress 9: The Contest of Interpretation Epilogue  Acknowledgments Cast of Characters Bibliography Indexmehr