DOI: 10.4231/84xg-cc91
title: Cinema, Truth, and Time: The Falsifier: Lecture 6, 20 December 1983

description: &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Deleuze Seminars&lt;/em&gt; is a collection of audio recordings, transcriptions, and English translations of, and supplemental materials from, the lectures French philosopher Gilles Deleuze gave during his career at the University of Paris 8.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&ldquo;Cinema, Truth, and Time: The Falsifier&rdquo; was a 22-lecture seminar given from November 1983 to June 1984. This seminar, the third of four consecutive seminars Deleuze gave on cinema, shifts focus from the movement-image to the time-image. In these lectures, Deleuze continues to elaborate his theory of cinema through various theoretical and aesthetic frames including: Ancient Greek philosophy; Nietzsche&rsquo;s reconsideration of the concept of truth; principles of formal logic; literature; the time-image as crystallization; and the filmmakers he thinks are particularly influential in creating the time-image. As a precursor to the publication of Deleuze&rsquo;s second of two volumes on cinema, &lt;em&gt;Cinema 2: The Time-Image&lt;/em&gt; (1985), this seminar is a valuable resource to researchers interested in Deleuze&rsquo;s film theory, as well as his larger philosophical oeuvre.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In session 6, 20 December 1983, Deleuze ends the year by linking the seminar&rsquo;s main philosophical texts (notably, by Plato) with the main literary texts (notably, by Herman Melville). First, recalling Nietzsche on the theme of the real world becoming a fable (&lt;em&gt;Twilight of the God&lt;/em&gt;), Deleuze links Platonism, Nietzsche and Melville together through a five-step tale of the truthful man. Finally, with the emergence of something new, Nietzsche&rsquo;s &ldquo;overman&rdquo; and Melville&rsquo;s  &lt;em&gt;Pierre or the Ambiguity&lt;/em&gt;, the object of modern philosophy versus the object of ancient philosophy, the truthful man now transformed as inventor of the new.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This dataset includes: the complete French transcription and English translation of the recorded lecture in Open Document Text (odt) format, the complete recording in mp3 format, and the original Paris 8 French transcript.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Les S&eacute;minaires de Deleuze&lt;/em&gt; sont une collection d&#39;enregistrements audio, de transcriptions et de traductions en anglais et de documents compl&eacute;mentaires des conf&eacute;rences que le philosophe fran&ccedil;ais Gilles Deleuze a donn&eacute; lors de sa carri&egrave;re &agrave; l&#39;Universit&eacute; de Paris 8.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&laquo;Cin&eacute;ma, v&eacute;rit&eacute; et temps: le faussaire&raquo; &eacute;tait un s&eacute;minaire de 22 conf&eacute;rences donn&eacute; de novembre 1983 &agrave; juin 1984. En tant que pr&eacute;curseur de la publication du deuxi&egrave;me de deux volumes de Deleuze sur le cin&eacute;ma, &lt;em&gt;Cin&eacute;ma II. L&#39;Image-temps&lt;/em&gt; (1985), ce s&eacute;minaire est une ressource pr&eacute;cieuse pour les chercheurs int&eacute;ress&eacute;s par la th&eacute;orie du film de Deleuze, ainsi que sa plus grande &oelig;uvre philosophique.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Dans la s&eacute;ance 6, le 20 d&eacute;cembre 1983, Deleuze termine l&rsquo;ann&eacute;e en reliant les principaux textes philosophiques du s&eacute;minaire (notamment ceux de Platon) aux principaux textes litt&eacute;raires (notamment ceux de Hermann Melville). D&rsquo;abord, en rappelant Nietzsche sur le th&egrave;me du monde r&eacute;el devenu fable (&lt;em&gt;Le Cr&eacute;puscule des dieux&lt;/em&gt;), Deleuze relie le platonisme, Nietzsche et Melville &agrave; travers une histoire en cinq &eacute;tapes de l&rsquo;homme de v&eacute;rit&eacute;. Enfin, avec l&rsquo;&eacute;mergence de quelque chose de nouveau, le &laquo; surhomme &raquo; de Nietzsche et Pierre ou l&rsquo;ambigu&iuml;t&eacute; de Melville, l&rsquo;objet de la philosophie moderne face &agrave; l&rsquo;objet de la philosophie antique, l&rsquo;homme de v&eacute;rit&eacute; se transforme alors en inventeur du nouveau.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Lecture given by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze at the University of Paris 8, 20 December 1983. This is lecture 6 of a 22-lecture seminar Deleuze taught between November 1983 and June 1984.