Allowing the Fly to Leave: The Chance Meeting of Wittgenstein and Buñuel at a Mexican Dinner Table
Within Luis Buñuel's classic surrealist film The Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador, 1962) is a philosophical motif which expresses, demonstrates, and develops two of Ludwig Wittgenstein's central concepts: (1) language lays traps for the unwary that can lead to illogical thought a...
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Edinburgh University Press
2018-10-01
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Series: | Film-Philosophy |
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Online Access: | https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/film.2018.0086 |