“Man is something that shall be overcome“. The histori-osophical discourse of 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Keywords

2001: Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick
historiosophy
Friedrich Nietzsche

How to Cite

Klejsa, K. (2021). “Man is something that shall be overcome“. The histori-osophical discourse of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication, 28(37), 35–60. https://doi.org/10.14746/i.2020.37.03

Abstract

Drawing upon classic works on Kubrick’s 2001, the author ponders various strategies of interpretation which have been adopted to decipher the film’s discourse. The title category of historiosophy indicates one of the possible interpretational paths: the one associated with the Nietzschean notion of humankind stuck in a liminal stage between an animal and the overman. The author claims that such an understanding was typical of the late 1960s, and he pursues his argument with a close analysis of several sequences from the film, focusing on the formal devices which present the human protagonists as weak and lackluster, while the animal, the technological and the extraterrestrial characters are depicted as vital and irrepressible.

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