Hello All,
I've been pondering immanence and cinema and trying to think through the relationship between film and philosophy in relation to immanence. There is a place in Levinas where he writes:
Philosophy thus finds in manifestation its matter and its form. In its attachment to being, to beings or the being of beings, it would thus remain a movement of knowledge and truth, an adventure of experience between the clear and the obscure.
and a bit further...
And philosophy, then, in search of the transcendental operations of the apperception of the _I think_, is not some unhealthy and accidental curiosity; it is representation, the reactualization of representation, that is, the emphasis of presence, being's remaining-in-the-same in the simultaneity of its presence, in its always, in its immanence. Philosophy is not merely the knowledge of immanence; it is immanence itself.
Might it not be possible to substitute "Cinema" for "philosophy" in these passages? Might it be possible argue the cinema is not merely the knowledge of immanence, but is immanence itself?
just thinking,
Brian
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Brian Bergen-Aurand
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