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Abstract
Markus Rheindorf's contribution offers some reflections on the critical potential of Ludwig Wittgenstein's "uebersichtliche Darstellung"or "concise presentation," his self-consciously employed method of philosophical writing in the 1930s, and explores its theoretical and methodological potential for the practice of cultural history. In so doing, it articulates a substantial critique of conventional disciplinary historiography, taking as its case in point the history of (early) film theory. Rheindorf then takes up the suggestions gained from juxtaposing Wittengstein's method with conventional accounts of the history of early film theory and suggests concrete ways in which these might be put to practical use in the form of a cultural history of film theory.
Recommended Citation
Rheindorf, Markus "Notes on Wittgenstein’s Method, the Practice of Cultural History, and Early Film Theory." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, vol. 5, no. 2, 2005, pp. 1–18.https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol5/iss2/6
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