EURO ST 10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: And Yet It Moves, Totalitarianism, Thomas Kuhn
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In the final scene of the play/film, galileo and andrea have a conversation near the end of galileo"s life about why he recanted. Note first that it involves mathematical demonstrations and was published. A heroic act or an act of cunning? in leiden (holland) and not italy. Galileo accepted the injunction and recanted his views. Rumored to have said: e pur si muove . When the owners took it out of the frame, they found the words painted on the canvas, but folded under the frame and out of view. Brecht, who had fled the nazis, and many of his fellow germans both inside nazi. Germany and in exile, had to confront these questions. Brecht himself was a fox with revolutionary ideas. That"s also how he got away from joseph mccarthy"s anti-communist committee in the us. Perhaps that"s why he was drawn to galileo and/or portrayed him with such ambivalence in the play.
