Blind Man Looking For A Black Cat In A Dark Room

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Blind man looking for a black cat in a dark room.

The show curated by anthony huberman took its title from a line attributed to charles darwin. Ernest gellner referred to an east european joke about science philosophy and marxism as looking for a cat in a dark room with various consequences. For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn t there book. A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn t there.

December 3 2009 january 31. A blind man in a dark room searching for a black cat which isn t there and finding it. Philosopher theologian and lawyer. For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn t there starts with the premise that art is not a code that needs cracking.

Celebrating the experience of not knowing and unlearning the artists in this exhibition understand the world in speculative terms eager to keep art separate from explanation. With his obscure and uncertain speculations as to the intimate nature and causes of things the philosopher is likened to a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that is not there. Contemporary art museum st. The cat s responses yearning and mournful seemed to me to echo the depth and doubt of morandi s work.

For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn t there will travel to an additional american venue and a slightly modified version of the exhibition will simultaneously travel to three european venues. James mentioned the black cat expression in the first chapter of some problems in philosophy. A mathematician is like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn t there. A theologian is the man who finds it h l.

Also in 1942 a book reviewer in the cornell law quarterly extended the humorous passage by contrasting three professions. You re like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn t there.