Discussion of Hermeneutical Injustice and how contact with the arts in particular cinema and literature may overcome hermeneutic lacunas
21 Março 2019, 10:00 • Cecília Maria Beecher Martins
Students presented chapter 7 Hermeneutical Injustice of Miranda Fricker's Epistemic Injustice: Power and Ethics of Knowing.
Class discussion of the chapter and how the arts in particular cinema and literature may overcome hermeneutic lacunas - illustration of how George Cukor's
Gaslight (1944) offered an illustration of a phenonena - emotiional manipulation - can be illustrated in a film and even then go on to give a name to the phenomena, in this case gaslighting.
Discussion of how Testamonial and Hermeneutical Injustice fit together.
I have sent the Powerpoint presentations used to illustrate these points to students' campus emails.
Students must submit a printed copy of their first essay ( a technical or theoretical analysis of one of the three films viewed
The Talented Mr. Ripley, Black Women in Medicine and
Gaslight) at the next class on 26th March.