Noël Carroll (philosopher)

Noël Carroll (2005)

Noël Edward Carroll (* 1947 in New York City ) is an American philosopher . He is considered one of the world's leading art philosophers .

Life

Carroll studied philosophy at Hofstra University (Bachelor) and the University of Pittsburgh (Master). He earned a Ph.D. in 1976. in film studies from New York University and in 1983 in philosophy from the University of Illinois . From 1991 he was Monroe C. Beardsley Professor of Art Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison . In 2012 he became a Distinguished Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center . He has published numerous books and does research in the field of philosophy, aesthetics and ethics. His most important work is The Philosophy of Horror or Paradoxes of the Heart (1990). Together with David Bordwell he took up the book Post-Theory. Reconstructing Film Studies (1996) sharply attacked the “grand theories” of film studies because of their broad adaptation of psychoanalytic , semiotic and Marxist elements since the 1970s.

Fonts (selection)

• The Philosophy of Horror or Paradoxes of the Heart (Routledge, 1990)
• Mystifying Movies (Columbia University Press, 1991)
• Theorizing the Moving Image (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
• Interpreting the Moving Image (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
• A Philosophy of Mass Art (Routledge, 1999)
• Beyond Aesthetics (Cambridge University Press, 2001)

literature

• Jonathan Frome: Noël Carroll . In: Paisley Livingstone, Alvin Plantinga (Eds.): The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film . Routledge, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-415-77166-5 , pp. 334 ff.

Web links

• Noël Carroll at the CUNY Graduate Center