Journal de Etica y Cine

Volumen 11 | N° 2

Ética y Filosofía

Nomadland and the negation of the predicate

Nomadland | Chloé Zhao | 2020

Universidad Nacional del Chaco Austral, Argentina

Abstract

Nomadland is a precious exercise to explore the subjective zone in which reason, far from abandoning itself to skepticism, gives place to the always contingent horizon of our existence. If the reader finds a simile with the logic of not-all that Lacan uses in his formulas of sexuation to describe the feminine field, they are correct. The indefinite trial, to which Emmanuel Kant appeals to resolve the antinomies that transcendent ideas imprint on reason, supports the subjective position that Chloé Zhao (director) and Frances McDormand (actor and co-producer) display in this exquisite film, where a loss serves as a pretext for addressing the meaning of life; the place of feelings; finitude; and the relationship with others, with stones and with nature.

Keywords: not all | Duel | Reason

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: Nomadland y la negación sobre el predicado

NOTAS

Etica y Cine (Ethics & Films) is a Peer Reviewed Quarterly Journal Edited by
Department of Psychoanalysis and Department of Deontology, School of Psychology, National University of Cordoba, Argentina
Department of Psychology, Ethics and Human Rights, School of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
With the collaboration of:
Center for Medical Ethics (CME), Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
Under the auspicious of:
The International Network of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics.

Nomadland and the negation of the predicate

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