L’estetica di Ejzenštejn in dialogo con l’epistemologia di Vygotskij

Abstract

In this article I aim to explore some important points of contact between Sergej M. Ejzenštejn's film aesthetics and the innovative approach to the relationship between thinking and speech developed by Lev S. Vygotskij. In particular, I will draw attention to some qualifying theoretical themes, which the two authors share: the question of the body; the multimodality of imagination; the different genetic roots of imaginative activity and of language understood as a species-specific expressive technology; the importance of «inner speech» as an essential element of the processes of individuation; the social character of human cognition and emotion; the ‘politicity’ (in a broad sense) of works of art.