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rambam: mono( theism) in surround sound
Accusations of prophecy both true and false, fly fast and furious. The jabbing and sparring, the parrying of the opponent in preparation for the great revelation from some ultimate message, messianic of sorts, which will reveal for once and for … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Abraham Cresques Catalan Atlas, Christopher Hitchens, Eldon Rutter, Georges Vajda, Girolamo da Treviso, Laurie Goodstein, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maimonides, Maimonides guide for the perplexed, Norman Stillman, Peter Howson, Richard Burton, Tariq Ramadan, The Dead Sea Scrolls, The Great Isaiah Scroll
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hume: a fire hose in paradise
Our tradition of the Enlightenment. Secularism and at least partly a sectarian quarrel with religion. They could never fairly assess the contours of Christian thought, art and humanitarianism and in so doing opened the door to the counter Enlightenment which … Continue reading
sunset of a new dawn
The Enlightenment. Its the basis of our secular society and ints values underpin much of the consumer economy. Its values have dominated the public sphere since the dawn of the industrial age. This liberal, rational, humanitarian way of thought has … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Christopher Hitchens, Edward Gibbon, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hannah Arendt, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Heidegger, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Peter Howson, Richard Dawkins, Slavoj Zizek, 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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