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the mono men: back to me, myself and sigh
The Hawkins, Hitchens legacy… The atheist, too, would not dare deny himself a god and why not get personally involved in the god business; they have a god and it is themselves. You could say that the pagan, the idolator … Continue reading
the gods in art
The Gods in art. Andre Malraux sought the key to humankind’s fate by a philosphical study of all the world’s art. In The Metamorphosis of the Gods, he pursued a daring venture of the intellect…. (see link at end)… The … Continue reading
malraux: patterns across the universe
…As the chief curator and guide of the Imaginary Museum, Malraux recalls Toynbee and Spengler. For one thing, he shared their infatuation with the past, their conviction it can speak to us, that stones have tongues. For another, he shared … Continue reading
imaginary museum
The imaginary museum in which the art of every age is at last brought together and searched for its deepest meaning… Andre Malraux’s great study of “anti-destiny” was titled The Metamorphosis of the Gods. The book, was in a sense, … Continue reading
shapes of things: grim final discords
….at last the signs of death in the hollowed cheeks and nostrils and bared teeth. Enough? No. Lucretius does not stop there; he goes on, still with the same febrile, fascinated attention, to describe the disintegration of society, the sick … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Atheism, brigitte fontaine, Christopher Hitchens, Cicero, Epicurianism, Epicurus, Friedrich Schroder-Sonnenstern, Jean-Marc Scanreigh, Lucretious, Lucretius, Lucretius The Nature of the Universe, Lucretius The Nature of Things, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Richard Dawkins, Saint Jerome
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nothing that ain’t: leaky vessels
The great Roman poet Lucretius seems to take the affirmative side in our unending debate in whether reason and logic can solve all our problems. But his verses were charged with agonizing doubts in his superb poem The Nature of … Continue reading
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Tagged Atheism, Bertrand Russell, Charlie Rose Lucretius, Christopher Hitchens, Democritus, Epicurianism, Epicurus, Fernand Fau, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Leucippus, Lucretius, Lucretius The Nature of the Universe, Lucretius The Nature of Things, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maurice Mac-Nab
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agonizing doubts: the nature of things
Can reason and logic solve all of people’s problems? The great Roman poet Lucretius seems to take the affirmative side in the individual’s unending debate on this question- but his verses are charged with agonizing doubts. The material of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Atheism, Christopher Hitchens, Cicero, Epicurus, Harold Bloom, Lucretius, Lucretius The Nature of Things, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nepos, Richard Dawkins, Sandro Botticelli, Stephen Greenblatt
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angels and demons not included
Ingmar Bergman’s religious views, his particular spiritual ideology have always held interest because unlike a Dawkins or a Hitchens, there is always nuance and ambiguity to Bergman’s views, always a few hidden back door and small windows with cracks in … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged agnosticism, Atheism, August Strindberg, bibi anderson, Carl Jung, Christopher Hitchens, igmar bergman through a glass darkly, Ingmar Bergman, ingmar bergman the rite, Liv Ullmann, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog
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nihilism : brave new world
Seduced. The abolition of logic and its replacement by spontaneity. The will to nothing. No permit requited. The strange guest, nihilism, at the door. Somehow the grain of the new, a weird perversion of creationism which combines the anxiety of … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Atheism, David Brooks, David Hume, Donald Kuspit, h.p. lovecraft, Hannah Arendt, Heath Ledger, Jeremy Bentham, Michel Houellebecq, Nietzsche, nihilism, Pablo Picasso, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, willem de Kooning, william lane craig
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butch cassidy goes to piedmont
A rarity. At least at the time, one of the first media celebrities, a kind of royalty of image and talent. They all get discarded eventually as each new generation creates their gods. But Garibaldi is enduring; his manner of … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, Arthur Rimbaud, Atheism, garibaldi, giuseppe garibaldi, giuseppi mazzini, james bond archetype, Lord Nelson, lucy riall, Pope Pius IX, Romantic Age, rory carroll, Saint Simon, sylvestro lega
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