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Tag Archives: Albrecht Durer
a house divided
It remains the most perplexing legacy of the modern age. How advanced, democratic, secular and ostensibly enlightened societies could be at the nevrological and seismic center from which the Holocaust was to arise. And with this context, Hannah Arendt continues … Continue reading
health seeker and fitness reaper
…There is hardly a single mundane human activity, including thinking, that health seekers of one sort or another have not tried to reform, reconstruct, or abjure in the pursuit of physical well-being. They may do so on the basis of … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Bernard Rudofsky, Earl Fee, Ed Whitlock, mud bathing
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toe twiddlers: same old foot
No shoe is too bone breaking, nor corset too breathtaking, nor bodily alteration to excruciating for man not to have tried it out in his continuing pursuit of the fashionable body… …Shoe manufacturers have shown admirable patience with nature. Despite … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Petrus Camper
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bruegel: sober philosophy
In a more extreme sense than most great painters, Pieter Bruegel the Elder exists at two levels. At the popular one, his fantastic drolleries and his pictures of rollicking peasants are taken at face value and bought as popular commodity … Continue reading
bruegel: keeping identity with nature
For Pieter Bruegel the Elder, man is faulty, he is potentially noble, and that his existence is legitimized by his position as an integral but not central unit of the cosmos- although not within such arbitrarily neat compartments. Rejecting the … Continue reading
enemy from within
hypocrisy of humanism? …There is no immediate solution whatsoever. Any lasting peace will take a significant amount of time to be established. That is an unfortunate reality. The difficulties in Israeli-Arab relations stem from problems lying at the core of … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Anthony Loewenstein, Avi Mayer Jewish Agency, BDS Israel, Dan Avnon Hebrew University, Daniel Meyerowitz-Katz, Frantz Fanon, Frederick Toben holocaust denier, Gil Atzmon, ilan pappe, Jake Lynch, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Noam Chomsky, Sameh Habeeb The Palestine Telegraph, Samuel Bak art, Yigal Amir
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none was too many
So it goes, that many assert that if man is to be truly free,then he must be free to make his own moral decisions, accepting or rejecting a given absolute moral standard, or else he is neither free nor even … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Albrecht Durer, Donald Kuspit, Emil Fackenheim, Fritz Hershberger, Hannah Arendt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Norman Finkelstein, Orly Yadin Silence, Samuel Bak, Theodor Adorno, Theodor Adorno Auschwitz, yvelyne wood, Yvrlyne Wood
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diplacing man from the middle
Nicolaus Copernicus. He was called “incomparable astronomer” and was immensely respected, though controversial.After all, he displace man from the center of the universe as he pushed earth out of its traditional place; the pre-Copernican cosmos was generally held to consist … Continue reading
it’s a guy thing
True believers. un-believers. Mis-believers. Its a bizarre love triangle for Pat Robertson and he is media savvy enough to play the cards right every time and drawing the awaited reaction, the wailing and moral lamentations from secular religious liberals of … Continue reading
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