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karl marx:the second as farce
…The spectacle of the great Napoleon’s nephew stepping into his uncle’s boots offered opportunities that Marx was not the man to miss. The note is stuck in the first sentence: “Hegel’s remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great … Continue reading
we will never forget and never understand…
Holocaust Memorial Day. … At the beginning of the 1930’s the moral relativists still stood on firm ground. The purity of socialist morality, in its highest form unshackled from capitalism, atheism as a code of innate goodness. Who would have … Continue reading
consequences: scrambling with the brutes
…To some the implications of Darwin’s theory were negative and desolating. The whole earth no longer proclaimed the glory of the Lord. Paradoxically, in revealing the closeness of man’s link with the rest of creation, Darwin seemed to have cut … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Russell Wallace, Alfred Wallace naturalist, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Charles Le Brun, Gregor Mendel, Immanuel Kant, John Dalton, Julian Huxley, Karl Marx, Linley Sambourne, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, pierre teilhard de chardin
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maybe something good will come of them
And now we approach the jewish holiday of Hannukah, the Festival of Lights which recalls the victory more than 2000 years ago, of a militarily weak but spiritually strong people over the mighty forces of a ruthless foe that had … Continue reading
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Tagged Amona expulsion, anti semitism, Babylonian Exile, Bernhard Blechmann, Charls Darwin, Destruction First Temple, Ehud Olmert Israel, Festival of Lights, Francis Galton, Hieronymous Bosch, Immanuel Kant, Klaus Hoedl, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, prime minister olmert
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main street: direct appeal to the senses
Period pieces. Toby Tyler, circa 1890 and chockablock with tried and tested cliches which work pretty well, even by today’s standards. Toby Tyler, an orphan, and Disney is really the patron saint of orphans, who lives with a crosspatch uncle … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Clement Greenberg, Friedrich Schiller, Gabrielle Thuller, Hegel Philosopher, hermann broch, Ilya Repin, Immanuel Kant, Kevin Corcoran, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mr. Stubbs Toby Tyler, Thomas Kulka, Toby Tyler Disney movie
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avoiding the seductive charms of despair
“Returning form Syracuse?” ….Four hundred years ago, the French “politiques” advanced the novel, and totally subversive notion of the time that people of different religious persuasions could live together, in peace, in the same country and under the same sovereign. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged daniel ludwig, Ernest Juenger, Frank Stella art, Friedrich Nietzsche, friedrich schelling, gadamer, Hannah Arendt, Hegel Philosopher, Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger, Noam Chomsky, Oswald Spengler, Otto Dix, The Enlightenment, Voltaire
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foiled hopes
The Enlighenment. The Age of the Enlightenment. The name of an age, the eighteenth century all across Europe and the colonies in the New World and the name of a movement that pervaded and came to dominate that age: a … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged David Hume, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Lacan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, Peter Howson, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Slavoj Zizek, Sokari Douglas Camp, The marquis de Sade, Theodor Adorno, Voltaire, Wieland Schonied
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enlightened unreason
The Enlightenment. This is our tradition. This is our world view. The liberal, rational, humanitarian way of thought. It has persisted for over two centuries. This is a tradition which is bending against strains that challenge its hegemony. At what … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Jean Maury, Denis Diderot, Francis Picabia, Immanuel Kant, Jean de La Harpe, jean huber, jean huber swiss painter, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marquis de Condorcet, Mel Ramos art, Peter Howson art, roberto matta, Santayana, Slavoj Zizek, Voltaire
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spaces of disclosure
Impressions of distances within and distances beyond. When Hiroshima , Mon Amour came out about fifty years ago, the newsreels were full of Eisenhower being warmly greeted in South Korea, a behavior in sharp contrast to the Japanese who were … Continue reading
lets build something together
The realistic underside. A commentary on the tenuous grip on sanity that an excess of reason and common sense produce. The dead-end of the escapism into stark materiality. Portrait of a realistic underside of the economic miracle where all the … Continue reading
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