Cinema

For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject to which the film gives expressive form? This is the question that lies at the heart of Badiou's account of cinema. He contends that cinema is an art form that bears witness to the Other and renders human presence visible, thus testifying to the universal value ...

For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject to which the film gives expressive form? This is the question that lies at the heart of Badiou's account of cinema. He contends that cinema is an art form that bears witness to the Other and renders human presence visible, thus testifying to the universal value of human existence and human freedom. Through the experience of viewing, the movement of thought that constitutes the film is passed on to the viewer, who thereby encounters an aspect of the world and its exaltation and vitality as well as its difficulty and complexity. Cinema is an impure art cannibalizing its times, the other arts, and people -- a major art precisely because it is the locus of the indiscernibility between art and non-art. It is this, argues Badiou, that makes cinema the social and political art par excellence , the best indicator of our civilization, in the way that Greek tragedy, the coming-of-age novel and the operetta were in their respective eras.

作者简介：

阿兰·巴迪欧（Alain Badiou），法国当代著名哲学家，巴黎第八大学、巴黎高等师范学院教授，国际上非常活跃的左翼思想家，积极参与政治活动与艺术实践，出版哲学著作、思想评论、戏剧作品等60余部，主要有《存在与事件》《主体理论》《非美学手册》《爱的多重奏》《柏拉图的理想国》等。

译者简介：

李洋，北京大学艺术学院副院长，教授、博士生导师，“新迷影丛书”主编，著有《目光的伦理》《迷影文化史》等，译有《莱昂内往事》《特写：阿巴斯和他的电影》等。

许珍，东北师范大学文艺学博士，吉林建筑大学艺术设计学院讲师，主要研究电影史、艺术史论，学术论文、译文发表于《电影艺术》《当代电影》《上海大学学报（社会科学版）》等。