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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Michael T. Miller, James Batcho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh University Press 2018-10-01
Series:Film-Philosophy
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Online Access:https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/film.2018.0086