2018
Cairn
Hugo Clémot, « Thinking about intimacy through cinema », Archives de Philosophie, ID : 10670/1.9bc9ee...
Intimacy in cinema is a well-documented theme in film studies. While philosophy has a long history of probing the problematic aspects of privacy, it is nevertheless unusual for philosophers to turn to the movies in order to find fresh perspectives using novel approaches to address and reconsider these conceptual enigmas. Taking the method of Stanley Cavell as a point of departure—a philosopher whose oeuvre belongs as much to philosophical and autobiographical registers as to “cinematographic” ones—this paper tries to show how thinking about intimacy through cinema is a way of enriching and even changing our conceptions on the matter.