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lifeboat: someone send an SOS
Lifeboat ethics. Over the centuries people have invented countless metaphors for the earth they live upon, calling it everything from a bountiful mother to a spaceship. A relatively new phenomenon is, with regard to population growth and our ability to … Continue reading
darwin: insufferable biding of time
…The voyage of the Beagle was, as he said himself, the formative experience of Darwin’s life. He lived hard, working in the cramped conditions of a sailing ship, rounding Cape Horn and making expeditions hundreds of miles inland through dangerous … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alfred Russell Wallace, Bertrand Russell, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Charles Le Brun paintings, Charles Lyell, George Stubbs paintings, J. B. Lamarck, Jeremy Bentham, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Professor Peter Singer, Richard Dawkins, T.H. Huxley
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decided and optimistic views
Josiah Wedgwood and his friends were the most brilliant group in England in the eighteenth-century- brilliant if highly eccentric. Most are forgotten today, but collectively they changed the world… Devotion to science and a respect for the arts were not … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Anna Seward, Desmond Clarke, Erasmus Darwin, George Stubbs, James Brindley, James Watt, Jenny Uglow, Jeremy Bentham, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Joseph Priestley, Josiah Wedgwood, Lichfield Group, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Matthew Boulton, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Robert E. Schofield, Sir Joseph Banks, The Lunar Society, Thomas Day, Thomas Day Sandford and Merton, William Rosen
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catch one if you can
Catchpenny prints, like those below were done by anonymous artists of the day and peddled for small change, usually for the tourist trade. As far as the middle of the eighteenth century goes, they reveal much about dress and costume … Continue reading
the odd couple: birds of a leather
Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh Carlyle…. …Jane whose character included a certain touch of masochism, held a certain profound relish for the domestic drama. She had thought of writing a novel, she admitted, about the “mysteries” of Number 6, her … Continue reading
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Tagged Bloomsbury Group, Charles Dickens, Charles Dickens John Forster, giuseppi mazzini, Godefroy Cavaignac, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Jeremy Bentham, John Forster biographer, John Stuart Mill, Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron, madame pckwick art blog, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marianne Hunt, Thomas Carlyle, Walter Greaves
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you can flee but you can’t hide
The first utopia was the Garden of Eden, but since no person knew what it was like, anyone may create it in their own image, the reason being an unhappiness with the world as it exists, pushing efforts to imagine … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Brisbane, Brook Farm, Charles Fourier, Ellery Channing, George Ripley, Jeremy Bentham, John Humphrey Noyes, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oneida Community, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Social Reform Unity, William Heath
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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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the poor don’t need your pity
…But John Galsworthy’s concern with the suffering of others was occasioned more by the pain knowledge of it gave him than by the pain experience of it gave them: It was the sensitive liberal’s position in succinct form.But once awakened … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, arthur galsworthy, augustus edwin mulready, Charles Dickens, george elgar hicks, Gustave Dore, jacob viner, james collinson paintings, Jeremy Bentham, John Galsworthy, John Maynard Keynes, John Stuart Mill, Joseph Conrad, Malthus, thomas benjamin kennington
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the good angels gulp and groan
In general, the notion that Heinrich Heine represented a “wound” became common currency in Germany after 1945, reflecting the German wound of the war and the country’s subsequent division; all interpretations have transformed themselves into a cultural problem and a … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged felix born, Friedrich Schiller, giuseppi mazzini, Goethe, Herman Hesse, Honore Daumier, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Ludwig Boerne, Martin Buber, Otto Dix, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Mann
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LETTING YOUR HAIR DOWN WITH THE “HYENA IN PETTICOATS”
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797 ) was a radical in the sense that she desired to bridge the gap between mankind’s present circumstances and ultimate perfection. She was truly a child of the French Revolution and saw a new age of reason … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Dworkin, Betty Friedan, Boudicca, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Christine Battersby, Cindy Chandler, Claire Clairmont, Cynthia Freeland, Edmund Burke, Eithne Johnson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Emma Goldman, Emma Willard, Eric Schaefer, Gail Dines, Gilbert Imlay, Gloria Allred, Greta Garbo, Henry Fuseli, Janet Todd, Jason Burke, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jeremy Bentham, John Cartwright, Joseph Johnson, Kim Airs, Laura Mulvey, Linda Nochlin, Lord Byron, Lucretia Mott, Lucy Lippard, Lyndall Gordon, Mary Shelley, Megan Amberger, Nancy Burns, Oscar Wilde, Percy Shelley, Richard Price, Robespierre, Rush Limbaugh, Simone de Beauvoir, Susan B. Anthony, Susie Bright, Tom Hazlitt, Toni Bentley, William Godwin
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