This article reconstructs and evaluates a debate between Robert B. Pippin and Slavoj Žižek over the proper interpretation of Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958), in relation to the philosophical project of G. W. F. Hegel. Pippin and Žižek are each leading contemporary scholars of Hegel, while each also shares an abiding interest in film.¹ Both Pippin and Žižek agree that Hitchcock’s Vertigo exemplifies certain important Hegelian philosophical insights, with profound implications for the philosophical understanding of our contemporary world. Yet, as we will see, they disagree on the precise way in which these insights are to be borne out, as well as the precise implications for the contemporary moment that are to follow from them. Žižek has written about Vertigo again and again throughout his philosophical career, but most important for our purposes is his treatment of the film in his magnum opus Less than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism (2012). Pippin offers a critique of Žižek’s reading of Vertigo as the conclusion of his extensive review of Less than Nothing, fittingly titled “Back to Hegel?” (2013), and later republished as a book chapter retitled “Slavoj Žižek’s Hegel” (2015). (Pippin would also publish a monograph The Philosophical Hitchcock: Vertigo and the Anxieties of Unknowingness (2017), though it does not substantively engage with Žižek’s reading.) The present paper is the first study to attempt to reconstruct and evaluate this debate, which stands to be of interest to those concerned with Hitchcock’s Vertigo, with Hegel’s philosophy, or with both.

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黑格尔和希区柯克的眩晕：关于和解

本文重构并评估了 Robert B. Pippin 和 Slavoj Žižek 之间关于正确解释Vertigo（Alfred Hitchcock，1958）与 GWF 黑格尔的哲学计划的争论。皮平和齐泽克都是当代黑格尔的主要学者，同时也都对电影有着持久的兴趣。¹皮平和齐泽克都同意希区柯克的《眩晕》体现了某些重要的黑格尔哲学见解，对我们当代世界的哲学理解具有深远的影响。然而，正如我们将看到的那样，他们对证实这些见解的确切方式以及对当代时刻的确切含义存在分歧。齐泽克写过眩晕在他的哲学生涯中一次又一次地出现，但对我们而言最重要的是他在他的代表作《无所不在：黑格尔与辩证唯物主义的阴影》（2012）中对这部电影的处理。皮平对齐泽克对《眩晕》的解读提出了批评，作为他对《无所不在》的广泛评论的结论，其标题恰如其分地命名为“回到黑格尔？” （2013 年），后来重新出版为一本书的章节，重新命名为“斯拉沃伊·齐泽克的黑格尔”（2015 年）。（皮平还将出版专着《哲学希区柯克：眩晕和未知的焦虑》（2017 年），尽管它并没有实质性地参与齐泽克的阅读。）本文是第一次尝试重建和评估这场辩论的研究，这对于那些关注希区柯克的眩晕、黑格尔哲学或两个都。