Another fascinating incorporation of a philosopher's work into film is Woody
Allen's Purple Rose of Cairo. Allen directly embodies Johann Gotleib
Fichte's concept of positing and unpositing being. Honoré de Balzac had also
directly explored Fichte's idea when he described the omnipotent power of
the author to posit and unposit a being/character. This has a parallel
relationship to the folklore of Golem, which has one of it's most
popularized forms in the story of Frankenstein.
I should add that Fichte is one of the most neglected and misrepresented
philosphers because of his association with German nationalism. This too is
typically misrepresented, and was a very minor aspect of his work. In many
respects he was the original formulators of European dialectic philosophy.
He had a direct influence on Kant, and those who followed in this tradition.
There is a good overview of his contribution to philosophy in the Standford
Encylopedia of Philosophy:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/johann-fichte/
Susanna Chandler
on 3/10/03 3:37 AM, Adrian Martin at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Boy, here is a film-philosophy connection no one has ever dreamt of before!
> In Hugo's text on perception in film, the source material of PSYCHO is
> credited to the great German philosopher Ernst Bloch !!!!! Well, his 1965
> essay "A Philosophical View of the Detective Novel" does mention Hitchcock,
> it's true !!!!!
>
> The mind boggles!
>
> AM
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