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Hilary Lawson is an English post-realist philosopher. Known for his theory of closure, he is director of the Institute of Art and Ideas and founder of the philosophy festival HowTheLightGetsIn. He has also had a journalistic and documentary career, is the founder of TVF Media, and the originator of the video painting movement. ==Biography== Hilary Lawson was born and grew up in Bristol, England, the only son of Harold Lawson and his wife Norma (née Gear). Awarded a scholarship whilst an undergraduate at Balliol College Oxford he gained a first in PPE. As a post-graduate he came to see paradoxes of self-reference as the central philosophical issue〔''Closure: A Story of Everything''; Routledge (2001) p.328〕 and began a DPhil on The Reflexivity of Discourse.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=LSE )〕 This later became the basis for his first philosophical book ''Reflexivity: The Post-Modern Predicament''.〔HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 21 November 1985〕 Alongside his philosophical writing, Lawson pursued a media career. Within a few years he had created his own prime time television series ''Where There's Life''〔''Where There's Life'', Michael Joseph, 1982. ISBN 0-7181-2137-6〕 with a weekly UK audience in excess of ten million.〔BFI National Library and BFI National Archive, JICTAR Weekly Audience TV Reports (1981)〕 In 1982 Hilary Lawson co-authored a book based on the series.〔 At 28, he was appointed Editor of Programmes and later Deputy Chief Executive at the channel Good Morning Britain. Meanwhile he continued to develop his philosophical thinking and had initial sketches of the theory later to become Closure.〔''Closure: A Story of Everything''; Routledge (2001)〕 In 1985 he wrote ''Reflexivity: The Post-Modern Predicament'' (1985), as part of a series on modern European thought.〔 The book argued that the paradoxes of self-reference are central to philosophy and drive the writings of Nietzsche, Heidegger and Derrida. In the late 1980s he founded the production company TVF Media〔http://www.tvf.co.uk/〕 which made documentary and current affairs programming, including Channel 4's flagship international current affairs programme, ''The World This Week''. Hilary Lawson was editor of the programme which ran weekly between 1987 and 1991. The programme predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall, the war in Yugoslavia and the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.〔explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9f28499f〕 In the 1990s, he focused on writing ''Closure''. It took a decade to complete and was published in 2001.〔''Closure: A Story of Everything''; Routledge (2002 edition), page 328〕 The book has been described as the first non-realist metaphysics.〔http://www.amazon.com/Closure-Story-Everything-Hilary-Lawson/dp/0415136504〕 Having begun his philosophical career as a proponent of postmodernism latterly he became a critic arguing for the necessity of an overall framework and the need to move on from a focus on language.〔iai.tv/video/the-limits-of-my-world〕 Applying the framework of openness and closure to the visual medium, he created the first video paintings in 2001〔http://www.opengallery.co.uk/video-art/hilary-lawson〕 with the aim of escaping narrative closure. He went on to found the Artscape Project in 2003, which brought a collective of artists together to develop the new medium.〔http://www.opengallery.co.uk/philosophy〕 Lawson founded the Institute of Art and Ideas in 2008 with the aim of making ideas and philosophy a central part of cultural life. IAI.tv was launched in 2011. IAI news in 2013 and the IAI Academy in 2014.〔http://iai.tv/home/host/hilary-lawson〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hilary Lawson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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