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SUMMARY:Brecht ­and Wittgenstein: Gawping – Seeing – Weltanschauen - 
 Michael Nedo\, Richard Raatzsch and Martin Kusch
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DESCRIPTION:11.00 Film\n\nGalileo based on Charles Laughton’s 1947 adapt
 ation of Brechts play\, directed by Joseph Losey and produced by Ely Landa
 u in 1975\, starring John Gilgud\, Tom Conti and Chaim Topol\n\nBreak with
  snacks and wine\n\n13.30 Discussion and Presentations by Michael Nedo\, R
 ichard Raatzsch and Martin Kusch\n\n\nA resemblance between Brecht and Wit
 tgenstein has not yet been discussed in the literature. We want to start s
 uch a discussion and test how far this resemblance might extend. \n\nBrech
 t\, Galileo: The universe has lost its centre overnight\, and in the morni
 ng it had countless ones. …\n\nGalileo to Andrea\, the eleven-year old s
 on of his housekeeper Andrea: But I can see that the sun stops in a differ
 ent place in the evening from where it is in the morning. So it cannot sta
 nd still! Never ever.\nGalileo: You can see! What do you see? You see noth
 ing. You just gawp. Gawping isn’t seeing. …\n\nWittgenstein: "Why do p
 eople say that it was natural to think that the sun went round the earth r
 ather than that the earth turned on its axis?"\nI (Elizabeth Anscombe\, a 
 friend and pupil of Wittgenstein) replied: "I suppose\, because it looked 
 as if the sun went round the earth."\n"Well\, he asked\, what would it hav
 e looked like if it had looked as if the earth turned on its axis?" 
LOCATION:Richard Eden Suite - West Court\, Clare Hall
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