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Rodowick takes after the theories of Hannah Arendt and argues that thinking is an art we practice with and for each other in our communities. In An Education in Judgment, philosopher D. N. Rodowick makes the definitive case for a philosophical humanistic education aimed at the cultivation of a life guided by both self-reflection and interpersonal exchange. Such a life is an education in judgment, the moral capacity to draw conclusions alone an...

In An Education in Judgment, philosopher D. N. Rodowick makes his definitive case for a philosophical humanistic education as the development of a life guided by both self-reflection and interpersonal exchange. Such a life is an education in judgment, the moral capacity to draw conclusions alone and with others, and to let one's own judgments be answerable to the potentially contrasting judgments of others. Thinking, for Rodowick, is an art we...

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This book argues that serious misreadings of Freud and Lacan on sexual difference have characterized prevailing models of psychoanalytic film criticism. In critiquing theories of identification and female spectatorship, the author maintains that early film theorists and feminist critics are equally guilty of imposing a binary conception of sexual difference on Freud's thought. By embracing such a rigid definition of male/female difference, the...

Theory¿an embattled discourse for decades¿faces a new challenge from those who want to model the methods of all scholarly disciplines on the sciences. What is urgently needed, says D. N. Rodowick, is a revitalized concept of theory that can assess the limits of scientific explanation and defend the unique character of humanistic understanding.

Examination of three critical responses to the disappearance of film in relation to other time-based media, and to the study of contemporary visual culture.

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Rhetorically charged debates over theory have divided humanities scholars for decades. Rodowick steps back from arguments pro and con to assess why theory has become such a deeply contested concept. Far from lobbying for a return to the "high theory" of the 1980s, he calls for dialogue on an ethically inflected philosophy of the humanities.

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

D. N. Rodowick is professor of visual and environmental studies and director of Graduate Studies in Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of many books, including The Virtual Life of Film and Gilles Deleuze’s Time Machine.

Proposes and examines three different responses to the disappearance of film in relation to other time-based media. This book suggests that film occupies a special place in the genealogy of the arts of the virtual: while film disappears, cinema persists - at least in the narrative forms imagined by Hollywood.