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(2014) A critique of judgment in film and television, Dordrecht, Springer.
Cinematic judgment and universal communicability
on Benjamin and Kant with Metz
Richard Rushton
pp. 202-218
What does Christian Metz mean when he writes, in The Imaginary Signifier, that "the spectator identifies with himself, with himself as a pure act of perception (as wakefulness, alertness): as the condition of possibility of the perceived and hence as a kind of transcendental subject, which comes before every there is" (1982, 49)? What does Metz mean, first of all, by declaring that the spectator identities with himself? What is a "pure act of perception"? What, furthermore, is a "condition of possibility" that opens up or grounds ("comes before") this perception? What is a "transcendental subject," and why or how does such a subject come before every "there is"? There is a great deal contained in this sentence that comes as a culmination of a number of observations Metz makes in his famous essay.
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Rushton, R. (2014)., Cinematic judgment and universal communicability: on Benjamin and Kant with Metz, in S. Panse & D. Rothermel (eds.), A critique of judgment in film and television, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 202-218.
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