| 单词 | philosopher |
| 例句 | People may be able to take solace from it, but it’s clear that the statement is not falsifiable and hence, as the English philosopher Karl Popper has insisted, not part of science. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He presented himself not as a great philosopher but as someone prepared to grub around for facts. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He wanders past graves belonging to philosophers and poets, authors whose books he knows from his grandmother’s library. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Aristotelian philosophers looked backwards, assuming Aristotle had known everything that needed to be known; the new scientists looked forward, aiming to expand the limited range of topics in which they could make satisfactory predictions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The philosophers weren’t convinced and continued as before, and the mathematicians weren’t impressed—this wasn’t maths as they understood it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A contemporary philosopher has distinguished between three sorts of facts: brute facts, language-dependent facts and institutional facts. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He pored over “Old Waldo” Emerson and ruminated on the philosopher’s essay on “Compensation.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I was startled that the French philosopher could so perfectly characterize the racists of our Southern states. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s the reason the first philosophers were peripatetic. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In 1844, the philosopher Auguste Comte was searching for an example of a sort of knowledge that would be always hidden. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There is the famous example of the philosopher Cremonini, who, despite being a close friend of Galileo, refused to look through his telescope. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine goes even further and maintains that experience never forces one to reject any particular belief. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The mathematicians followed Archimedes; the philosophers followed Aristotle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z By that time the philosophers had also begun to change their approach to this people. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the writer and philosopher Henry David Thoreau said so. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Insults were hurled: The philosophers called the greenwitches superstitious old wives, and the greenwitches retorted that not one of them was married. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They were the first to publish the English translation of The Communist Manifesto, written by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Thus we suddenly find sailors and jewellers being asked to resolve disputes between philosophers and gentlemen. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z When the slave-auctioneer inquired what skills Diogenes might offer, the philosopher replied, “Ruling men.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z From the point of view of a conventional seventeenth-century philosopher, this was a peculiar sort of explanation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Although there was a service led by the village philosopher, Ash did not hear a word of it. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And so the conclusion and augury which I draw, even though no philosopher, is this. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z It could be that she was in the same situation as the Working Boy, a seer and philosopher cast into a hostile century by forces beyond her control. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One option—the one most frequently adopted—was to continue to use the terms of Latin origin: ‘natural philosophy’ and ‘natural philosopher’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Descriptions moved easily from the physical to the symbolic and were incomplete without a range of references to poets and philosophers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z For the infinite had already begun to gnaw at the roots of Western thought, thanks to Zeno of Elea, a philosopher reckoned by his contemporaries to be the most annoying man in the West. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A basic description of the Scientific Revolution is to say that it represented a successful rebellion by the mathematicians against the authority of the philosophers, and of both against the authority of the theologians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Fellow “garden-lovers” and even some distinguished natural philosophers welcomed the work of this “ingenious woman,” for many of these metamorphoses had never been observed before. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z According to the Aristotelian philosophers, epicycles ought not really to exist: all movement in the heavens ought to be circular movement around the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z For the alchemists, the reality of the philosopher’s stone was beyond question; within a generation their appeal to authority, to ancient texts and secret manuscripts, seemed hopelessly misplaced. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z One book, The Gay Genius, by Lin Yutang, told the story of Su Tung Po, the Chinese poet, artist, philosopher, and civil servant. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The new science destroyed the old one taught by the philosophers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Christopher, a graduate ,of Harvard Divinity School, was a poet, a philosopher, and a Unitarian minister, although he earned his keep as a bureaucrat in the California penal system. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Poets, philosophers and playwrights gushed and paid homage to him, including T. S. Eliot, James Joyce and Oscar Wilde, whose sinister Dorian Gray was an early Wagnerite. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Even Voltaire, who avoided the dialogue between a philosopher and a lady, a form popularized by Fontenelle, liked to imagine his book being read by a sophisticated woman at her dressing table. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Most were philosophers, and inquired into the workings of time and memory, natural history, the properties of light, heat, and petrifaction. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Yet, although the philosophers understood him perfectly well, some of them continued to insist that what he and other astronomers claimed to see couldn’t possibly be there. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Every year we’ve been in high school, the day before Thanksgiving break, senior humanities students dress like Greek philosophers and argue throughout the halls all day. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z “What are you doing up there?” called the philosopher. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I intervened in this piece of charming youthful désespoir; countering that some philosophers say governments were instituted to protect the natural rights of the citizen; to which Octavian said that nature recognizes no rights. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Similarly, Ptolemy had demonstrated that no homocentric planetary system could account for the observed phenomena, but philosophers were still trying to produce such a system well into the sixteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Eril-Fane was bidding the queen farewell, and the mathematician and natural philosopher were with them, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “What makes my legs go, Dranpa?” asked the young philosopher, surveying those active portions of his frame with a meditative air, while resting after a go-to-bed frolic one night. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother did, certainly, to see those philosophers grubbing as they did before her in the dirt. 03-01 clapped, and smoked his pipe. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The Oriental philosophers were the ones I came to prefer; finally, my impression was that most Occidental philosophy had largely been borrowed from the Oriental thinkers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z According to one tradition, when the philosopher Protagoras was convicted on charges of heresy, his books were dumped in the city marketplace and burned. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The musings of the tlamatinime occurred in intellectual neighborhoods frequented by philosophers from Brussels to Beijing, but the mix was entirely the Mexicans own. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Thus both Aristotelian philosophers and the new scientists produced demonstrations, but they meant radically different things by the word. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Aristotle, and most of the other Greek philosophers, on the other hand, did not like the idea of a creation because it smacked too much of divine intervention. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Hobbes was the first serious philosopher of the fact because he understood facts, but he did not trust them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The philosophers of his day were unable to refute the paradox. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “But you say they were gods?” asked Mouzaive, the natural philosopher, who was hard-pressed to believe in the divine. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Under the guidance of my new preceptors I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher’s stone and the elixir of life; but the latter soon obtained my undivided attention. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z Twenty years later, in 1612, Galileo found himself in a dispute with Aristotelian philosophers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The philosophers found such an answer unsatisfactory, even though something similar was to be found in Pliny’s Natural History, and sought a natural explanation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But it took more than a century to make innovation—outside geography and cartography—respectable, and then it became respectable only among the mathematicians and anatomists, not among the philosophers and the theologians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Some philosophers and nearly all anthropologists agreed: standards of rationality were, they insisted, local and highly variable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In adopting the term ‘theory’ the scientists were thus freeing themselves from the philosophers’ preoccupation with truth in so far as it implied knowledge of causes and of what Aristotelian philosophers called substances, or forms. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Perhaps because philosophers tended to be men and greenwitches tended to be women, the argument took on an overly heated tone. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Mouzaive, the natural philosopher: for the mystery of the citadel’s suspension. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z This usage of the terms ‘philosophy’ and ‘philosopher’ survived much longer than one might think. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “How small a thought it takes to fill someone’s whole life,” the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z So say the Greek philosophers, and the crocodiles make sure. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Carte'sian, relating to the philosophy of Descartes: a French philosopher of the 17th century. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z By then we had been joined by Francis’ close friend, the logician George Kreisel, whose unwashed appearance and idiom did not fit into my picture of the English philosopher. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z On the other hand, the people whose business it is to ask why, the philosophers, have not been able to keep up with the advance of scientific theories. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Grasping the loose waistband of his trousers, the philosopher stood up and bowed almost without realizing it, again and again, as the President of the Consistorial Court of Discipline left his cell. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Where should I start? Poet, philosopher, fisherman. My pop calls me a bum, but that’s elitist, don’t you think? I can split wood, spread mulch, pour beer and grow perfect tomatoes.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z The King even took the philosopher on a hunt, and as hunting is that people's favorite sport, all the country began to listen more seriously to the philosophers. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society’. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who practised it were convinced that the philosopher’s stone had been successfully produced in the past. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He made the “philosopher’s run” to Alexandria around 297, just as Eratosthenes later would. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The greenwitches derided the philosophers as joyless old men afraid of magic, and the philosophers, not surprisingly, protested that they found much joy in the real world. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Their arguments have convinced almost all anthropologists, nearly every professional historian and many philosophers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But the philosophers themselves disliked this penchant for telling tales and insisted upon their own, much plainer history. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z For the rest of his life Descartes dated his new life as a philosopher from these dreams. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Mom could be as wise as a philosopher, but her moods were getting on my nerves. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he talked like a scientist or a philosopher. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z He was up one of the ladders in the Pavilion of Thought, pulling books for an impatient philosopher who paced below. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z At one time he had almost developed it into an art form, practicing the hobby with the skill and fervor of an artist and philosopher, a scholar and gentleman. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Aristotelian philosophers thought that all true knowledge could be expressed in syllogistic form, arguing from indisputable premises to undeniable conclusions, all based on Evidence-Perspicuity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A philosopher once noted that something is odd if a person is not liberal when he is young and conservative when he is old. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Galileo seems to have had absolutely no success in his efforts to convince the philosophers that he understood why bodies float better than they did. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Horatio, you speak like a philosopher who equivocates truth and falsehood,” I said impatiently. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z After the discovery of a new continent, however, the outmoded view of Grosseteste once again became respectable among the philosophers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He thinks that Locke is the greatest philosopher who has ever lived and Newton the greatest scientist. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The subject had been discussed by brilliant philosophers and mathematicians for 2,000 years. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z All philosophers prefer to live in towers, as may be seen by visiting the room which Erasmus chose in his college at Cambridge, but Merlyn’s tower was even more beautiful than this. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z No competent astronomer defended the traditional Ptolemaic system once they had heard that Venus had a full set of phases; you had to be an ill-informed philosopher to do so. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As Dante pointed out in 1320, there was an obvious problem here, for the arguments of the philosophers and the maps of the geographers did not match up. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Oft cited on this subject of attention is William James, a philosopher and physician at the end of the nineteenth century, and the brother of novelist Henry James. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I wonder what Hamlet, the philosopher and man of reason, would have made of the nuns’ simple faith that they consume Christ’s true body. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Then they laughed because it was silly—the three of them acting like wise philosophers, standing on the stairs. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z He was a thinker and philosopher more in the style of the Ancient Greeks than a modern scientist. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “And while I’m about it I’ll take this one too. It’s by a man called Maine de Biran. He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z In Rome, sometime after 1638, a group of orthodox philosophers set out to prove that Galileo was wrong about the vacuum. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Seek simplicity, but distrust it,” Alfred North Whitehead, the mathematician and philosopher, once advised his students. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Machines did not change much in the meantime, but philosophers did. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They helped transform the way in which philosophers thought about machinery, just as Descartes’ obsession with automata resulted in a new mechanical philosophy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “The King’s chief philosopher himself has said that greenwitches do nothing more than calm one’s nerves — which is no small thing,” William said. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They were: a mathematician, a natural philosopher, and, to no one’s surprise, the alchemist, Thyon Nero. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z To be a philosopher’s apprentice—now, that would be a fine thing. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The ancient philosopher would have had a ready answer. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Greek philosophers were unable to untie that bundle; therefore, they were ill-equipped to solve Zeno’s puzzle. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Pope John died, and in the ensuing power shift all the philosophers and mathematicians like Dionysius were kicked out of office. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He was an astronomer, historian, geographer, philosopher, poet, theater critic and mathematician. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Greeks wrote of to hoti, ‘that which is’, and scholastic philosophers asked an sit, ‘whether it is’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z With the Renaissance revival of Stoicism the word ‘philosophical’ acquired a new meaning: philosophers, it was held, were able to moderate their passions and to be unmoved by the blows of fortune. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He’s no philosopher, but he understands action without goodwill to equal as much as half an equation. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z So if people generally believe that mice are spontaneously generated in straw, then the task of the philosopher is to explain why this is so, not to question whether it is so. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z If the philosophers were right and the habitable earth was a sphere floating on the surface of a larger globe of water, then a map should show the habitable earth as a circle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Thanks to the Scientific Revolution, we have a much more reliable type of knowledge than ancient and medieval philosophers ever had, and we call it science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Nowhere in that story is anything demonstrated with the rigor that a philosopher would require. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z And so he tells the reader not about the dreams, which were too private an experience, but about the day he spent in the stove-heated room, when his life as a philosopher began. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Never before or since has Holland been graced by such a galaxy of artists and scientists, philosophers and mathematicians. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Latin term for this, well known to medieval and Renaissance philosophers, is periculum facere, to make a test or trial of something. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z When Colin was about four, he read a book about Archimedes, the Greek philosopher who’d discovered that volume could be measured by water displacement when he sat down in the bathtub. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z “There is no job called philosopher, dear sis.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z If the philosopher deals with knowledge, the rhetorician is much more interested in belief. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Clearly, Revere is a thinker possessing an active intelligence, and we will recognize the pose of hand on chin as an old device used since antiquity to represent philosophers. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He was severely criticized for this irrational belief by many people, most notably by Bishop Berkeley, a philosopher who believed that all material objects and space and time are an illusion. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z After that I never told anyone I wanted to be a philosopher again, or even a writer. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The philosophers in the audience were scandalized by this claim; Galileo was naturally thrilled to have been vindicated and feted. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Over the heads of the three philosophers hangs the curtain which rises at the beginning of a theatrical performance—a device that was used by Galileo’s engraver, Stefano della Bella, for the frontispieces of plays. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z By rejecting zero, the Greek philosophers gave their view of the universe the durability to survive for two millennia. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It seems fair to say that Brunelleschi’s image aspires to exemplify what philosophers call a correspondence theory of truth, in which a statement or representation is true if it corresponds to external reality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The new philosophers regarded matter as the passive recipient of a divine shaping and denied the existence of Aristotelian forms. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “You are so talented, Florian, why not create something of your own, something that comes from your imagination? As the philosophers say, ‘Life is short, but art is long.’ Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z No medieval natural philosopher had a view of natural science as making progress, and no medieval natural philosopher was engaged in research, if we understand that to mean the gathering of relevant new information. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The great philosopher kept a collection of books at his school in Athens, the Lyceum. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z “He was an ancient philosopher,” Nick teased, “who believed that men’s souls were round like apples, the color of pearls, and had little white wings.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But, try as they might, the philosophers could not get such models to fit what actually happens in the heavens. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z When he came of age, he moved to Athens and heard the philosopher Ariston of Chios, who was a student of Zeno of Citium, a key figure in the history of the Stoic school. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The Scientific Revolution was, first and foremost, a revolt by the mathematicians against the authority of the philosophers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z From then on, for a period of at least two generations, philosophers had a hard time in that country. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Norte Chico, Haas told me, government seems not to have arisen from the need for mutual defense, as philosophers have often speculated. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Artists and scientists and philosophers and poets, many of them long dead. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as: did the universe have a beginning? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Cult was exactly the word for it, with Rain as its philosopher/guru. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Dante, unlike the philosophers, took his geography seriously, but no philosopher could have found his abandonment of the fundamental principle that the universe was made out of spheres entirely satisfactory. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z However, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, science became too technical and mathematical for the philosophers, or anyone else except a few specialists. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In spite of his feigned interest, José Arcadio never understood the powers of the philosopher’s egg, which to him looked like a poorly blown bottle. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Even after more than seventy years they have not been fully appreciated by many philosophers, and are still the subject of much controversy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t even know what a philosopher did for sure, but her laughing messed me up. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In Plato’s allegory of the metals, the philosopher classifies men into groups of gold, silver, and lead. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Impetus theory was used to handle some anomalies, not to bring about a revolution; indeed, medieval natural philosophers were incapable of imagining a revolution that would supplant Aristotle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She returned a moment later to add, “Kindness is never repaid. I should have known no good would come of feeding a philosopher.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Thus he showed the world philosophers can easily be rich if they like, but that their ambition is of another sort. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a philosopher called Charmadas who, it was said, could recite the contents of any volumes in libraries that anyone asked him to quote, just as if he were reading them. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I found that the philosophers there, centuries ago, had created a tool for their own undoing: an instrument they called the subtle knife. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The atheist argues ‘a priori’; the philosopher argues ‘by the Event’, in other words from experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The views of the philosophers and mathematicians, although they were sharply at odds with each other, corresponded satisfactorily to daily experience, or at least so they believed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In fact, most people of the time still believed in “spontaneous generation,” a theory put forth by the philosopher Aristotle in 330 B.C., almost two thousand years before Maria’s time. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Philosophers reduced the scope of their inquiries so much that Wittgenstein, the most famous philosopher of this century, said, “The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Frankly, the more I read about the philosophers of ancient Greece, the more I think her life is a waste. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z It’s a far richer substance than the philosopher's nothing. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A high official conducted the ceremony and he talked too long about philosophers and models of virtue. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z A British philosopher and political scientist who could read and write in Latin and Greek before the rest of us can tie our shoes. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z ‘The simple sailors of today,’ wrote Jacques Cartier in 1545, ‘have learned the opposite of the opinion of the philosophers by true experience.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Experimentum was, as a consequence, the word generally used by medieval philosophers to describe artificially Constructed experiences. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Ophelia, you are a natural philosopher! If I admit that my heart still beats, will you allow me to admire your beauty?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Based on the philosopher Nietzsche’s treatise of the same name, its opening, ‘Sunrise’, is now legendary thanks to Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The philosophers’ main weapon was logic, but logical deduction seemed useless against Zeno’s argument. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Everything that philosophers had taken for granted for millennia was called into doubt. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z As philosopher of science Karl Popper has emphasized, a good theory is characterized by the fact that it makes a number of predictions that could in principle be disproved or falsified by observation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And even though I knew I was named after my grandfather, I also knew I had inherited the name of the world's most famous philosopher. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Scholastic philosophers had fertile imaginations and had often imagined looking at the Earth from far away, even from the stars; but they had not imagined that the Earth would shine like the brightest stars. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Garzoni was a Jesuit, a Venetian patrician and a scholastic philosopher. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I told him, “Richard Buckminster Fuller was a scientist, philosopher, and inventor who is most famous for designing the geodesic dome, whose most famous version is the Buckyball. He died in 1983, I think.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “There is a magnetic field between the anchors and the citadel,” Mouzaive, the natural philosopher, was telling Kether, artist of siege engines, in the guildhall dining room. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It referred to a set of ideals and hopes, like human perfection or social equality, that philosophers mistakenly believed could be implemented in the world because it existed in their heads. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “To ascend to the origin of things, and speculate on creation, is not the business of the natural philosopher,” he wrote. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Hilary Putnam, perhaps the most influential analytic philosopher of the second half of the twentieth century, published a famous article called “The Meaning of Meaning” in a learned academic volume. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z How did Donne know that the new philosophers were seeking new worlds, not only by thinking of the planets as worlds but also by looking for worlds elsewhere in the firmament? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They had all shared the assumption that such models must involve various combinations of circular movement, because the philosophers had instructed them that all movements in the heavens was required to be circular. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The question of “likeness” had preoccupied scientists and philosophers for centuries. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Nomos is the postmodern philosopher who argues that the entire landscape is constructed—that it has no essential, innate qualities, but is simply a reflection of chance and human action. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Aristotle was thus interpreted by philosophers as grounding knowledge in sensation, and sensation was reinterpreted as knowledge of a reality external to the perceiver. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Astonishing as it may seem, there is no previous occasion on which new empirical evidence determined the outcome of a long-standing debate between philosophers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He was opposed not by the Aztecs but by Aristotelian philosophers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in a warm bath. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The exception was the Parisian philosophers, for whom the centre of gravity of both the earth and the water remained coincident with the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He was completely incoherent when he was drunk, but when sober he was one of the chief philosophers of the Comer. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Aristotelian philosophers were still happily teaching this doctrine in the seventeenth century, despite the fact that there were two obvious difficulties. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Here one was sure to meet scholars, philosophers, philanthropists, judges, bishops, clergymen, and statesmen,” Elizabeth wrote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Copernicus himself was an intermediate figure in the scientific revolution, and in one important way he resembled the Ancient Greek philosophers rather than the modern scientist. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “I think I finally get the quote by the philosopher David Hume. The one about the oyster. Remember that one, Benji?” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z The hundred nights they’d sat up debating the pros and cons of self destruction with the earnestness of philosophers chained to a madhouse wall. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Gradually, I read most of the old philosophers, Occidental and Oriental. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z If your philosopher has truly left Plato’s cave, if he has stared into that sun of the blind...” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Yet such a flow of blood must be a natural wonder that physicians have surely witnessed and philosophers written of. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z If thinking were enough to engender the new science it would have begun not with Galileo but with the fourteenth-century philosopher Nicholas Oresme. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The great philosopher and archaeologist R. G. Collingwood proposed a fairly straightforward technological determinism: new machines encourage new ways of thinking. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Aureliano, of course, understood that his brother’s affliction did not have its source in the search for the philosopher’s stone, but he could not get into his confidence. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In his conversations, he appears to be more a philosopher than someone with a medical and psychological background, quoting Hegel as much as Freud, Plato as much as Jung. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Aristotle and later philosophers would insist that there could not be an infinite number of nested spheres. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Yet these were not minor theories: one was held by the best philosophers of the later Middle Ages; the other by the cleverest Copernicans of the late sixteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Each and every one of these changes weakened the position of the philosophers and strengthened the position of the mathematicians, who, unlike the philosophers, welcomed new information. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I take ‘laws of nature’ and ‘scientific laws’ to be synonymous, although I am aware that some philosophers want to use these as labels to distinguish two different types of law. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z What I do know is that the original idea I had about philosophers is somewhat accurate. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Aristotelian science was not like this: Aristotelian philosophers had no sense that their knowledge was incomplete in important respects, and they thus had a different measure of success from a Galileo or a Pascal. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Try to think about it like an ancient philosopher. WWSD, you know?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z I often thought he had the mind of a mad genius and the heart of a philosopher. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “The ends justifying the means is something a ruthless dictator might say, not a philosopher.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z The philosophers, confident that Aristotle was always right, saw no need to test his claims. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was the “newest city” of the world, Twain had written—a place where scientists, writers, philosophers, and intellectuals were gathering in cafés and salons to forge a free and futuristic society. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Those philosophers only sit in their churches and issue judgments based on inaccurate texts from Concordia,” her mother said. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Greece would defeat the Persians; Greek philosophy would never quite defeat Zeno—for Zeno had a paradox, a logical puzzle that seemed intractable to the reasoning of Greek philosophers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z While reading for my master’s thesis, I’d been surprised to discover echoes of Mormon theology in the great philosophers of the nineteenth century. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z When his eyes met mine again, I felt the truth of what the philosophers say, that love enters through the eyes and strikes the soul. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Before they could accept zero, philosophers in the West would have to destroy their universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And so, as usual, our family dinner conversations were about things of the mind: Einstein and Newton, the poets and the philosophers. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Imponderables are ponderable, but answerable, no. Ask a philosopher, but be cautious. If you hear, ‘Eureka!,’ if you think, ‘His answer has captured my question!,’ then here is proof he is a counterfeit. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z One of the more successful attempts–commercially at least–was The ABC of Relativity by the mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Zeno’s logical puzzle baffled Greek philosophers—as well as the philosophers who came after them. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z An older school of historians and philosophers took this framework for granted, while a newer school has wanted to debunk or deconstruct the concepts rather than explain their significance and trace their origin. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Herbert Spencer—the philosopher who had coined the phrase survival of the fittest—had spent much of his life bedridden with various illnesses, struggling with his own fitness for survival. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z This difficulty, however, simply provoked the philosophers to think harder. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Yes. You know what a friend is, Reuven? A Greek philosopher said that two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z And so the philosophers turned their minds to other things; later, no one could even remember the year in which they had performed this experiment, and no one wrote about it at the time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z —Phathmus Mouzaive: natural philosopher; liked to declare that his field was no less than “the physical laws of the universe,” but whose focus, in reality, was somewhat narrower: magnetic fields. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In fourteenth-century Oxford, mathematically inclined philosophers had hypothesized that falling bodies accelerate continuously; but they had made no effort to confirm this theoretical possibility through experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z "Sickness was the physical manifestation of the will of God," Robert Crease, a philosopher of science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, told me. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Have I told you about the philosopher David Hume?” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z This event—the big bang—was a horrible idea to many scientists and philosophers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She raised her index finger, like a wise philosopher. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z As he resumed his studies, Farmer discovered the work of a little-known German physician, biologist, philosopher, anthropologist, and politician—a polymath—named Rudolf Virchow. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z What was at stake in the ‘Apology’ was not just the reasonableness of Christian faith, but the reliability of all the claims made by philosophers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Lady Isobel had taken her daughters to luncheon with the village philosopher, and Beatrice had gone into the City on an errand. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z You shall study history, the great philosophers, the sciences. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z McMahan has spent most of his career doing what moral philosophers do: thinking and writing about often recondite ethical questions. Do we need to hide who we are to speak freely in the era of identity politics? 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z He quoted the Spanish poet and philosopher Miguel de Unamuno in describing the need to do more to connect with residents, particularly in poor neighborhoods: “The freedom of the people is in their culture.” Gustavo Dudamel, Superstar Maestro, Meets New York 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Can they be squared with what we know of the world, and with the teachings of the great philosophers of antiquity? Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z I've been in the middle of the US talking to a philosopher, and they've suddenly gone all sheepish and said: "I probably shouldn't tell you this, but I've got all your records." From pop star to chiropractor: musicians' post-musical careers 2010-09-23T21:29:00Z If “The End of History” had a beginning, it might be a seminar on Plato’s “Republic” taught by the charismatic political philosopher Allan Bloom, the future author of “The Closing of the American Mind.” Francis Fukuyama Predicted the End of History. It’s Back (Again). 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z It lists and describes 11 plant species you want to avoid, and its title is inspired by the Greek philosopher who was sentenced to kill himself by drinking a potion of poison hemlock. 5 toxic plants you should know — and avoid 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Foley's writing is energetic, witty and erudite, peppered with lively quotes from the great philosophers, especially stoics and existentialists, and engages with the work of modern psychologists as well. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z IN THE early years of the Enlightenment, a few brave philosophers challenged the Christian order—an apparently hopeless task. The search goes on 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Early on, Wilczek quotes the 17th-century French physicist and philosopher Blaise Pascal’s lament, “The universe grasps me and swallows me up like a speck.” Electrons, Photons, Gluons, Quarks: A Nobel-Winning Physicist Explains It All 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone,” said the 17th-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal. Burned out and overwhelmed: should you embrace the joy of no? 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z In a preamble we're told that the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once encountered a hansom cab horse being whipped so he flung himself on to its neck to stop the brutality and thereafter went mad. Berlin film festival ? review 2011-02-20T00:05:49Z Bettany Hughes, author of The Hemlock Cup, a study of the philosopher's Athens, had an answer. This week's arts diary 2011-08-16T21:01:02Z Those are the sort of questions that scientists and philosophers either spend a lifetime working on or teach their students not to ask. Cabinet of curiosity 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z She does little to explain what makes Nietzsche an enduring philosopher who continues to exercise great influence. Two New Books Confront Nietzsche and His Ideas 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Bach and quarrelled with Voltaire, whom he brought to Prussia to be his court philosopher. Prussian and powerful 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Whereas you see other biennials taking up authors and philosophers and literary figures or writers as starting points for their research.” A Simplified and Secretive Istanbul Biennial 2011-09-14T20:30:07Z By Nov. 2019, he had a book that, despite its mostly pedestrian writing and tangents about philosophers, became a bestseller because of its content. Miles Taylor spoke out against Trump as ‘Anonymous.’ Now he’s gone public and is hiding out. 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z The wardrobe was provided by the filmmakers, seemingly designed to present the musician as a kind of philosopher hermit. Heartbreak leads Alain Johannes to 'Fragments and Wholes' 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Walter Benjamin, a mid-century German Jewish philosopher, described those photographs as “not lonely, merely without mood.” Perspective | In Hopper’s early Paris paintings, reflections of today’s strange, desolate cities 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z The Ministry of Education began providing financial incentives to universities in the U.S. and other countries in recent years to open Confucius Institutes, named for a renowned Chinese philosopher. Yao Ming, others film ads to boost China's image 2010-08-04T12:06:00Z The website Daily Stoic recommends following the advice of the ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus, who wrote “Be silent for the most part.” In Search of Silence 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z The same shore the philosopher Pythagoras retired to. Discovering the Ruins of Italy’s Ionian Coast 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z On Friday, the festival lineup includes "The Oath of Tobruk" a personal account of the Libyan uprising by French writer and philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy. Breeze of Arab Spring felt on Cannes red carpet 2012-05-25T12:01:05Z Another popular philosopher, Alain de Botton, has also turned his attention to art and is curating his own philosophy-infused exhibits that also mix time periods, which will open next year in Amsterdam, Melbourne and Toronto. | Bernard-Henri Lévy on Art and Philosophy 2013-05-31T21:49:07Z He was not only a philosopher with a guitar, like Bob Dylan, but a man of principles as well. Johnny Cash’s Poems Get a Second Life as Songs 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z I think I'm a better philosopher than a poet. Delorean: 'We're a friend alliance first, a musical project second' 2012-06-20T14:26:00Z But with each new episode, Carl seems increasingly mature, to the point where he’s become a budding philosopher. The Walking Dead Watch: “Isolation” 2013-10-28T02:01:44Z Buying into many of the myths Mao promoted about himself, Mr. Kissinger describes him as “the philosopher king.” Books of The Times: An Insider Views China, Past and Future 2011-05-09T19:59:38Z However, the Romantic philosophers, poets and artists understood the sublime subversion of looking up. We spend so much time staring at our phones. What do we miss when we don't look up? | Mel Campbell 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Montaigne was, as Sarah Bakewell observes in her book How to Live, the philosopher par excellence of modesty, particularly the self-restraint that helps people to engage with others. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z His historical memory is stunning, and he's slamming the philosopher hard, calling him a "liar," a "rebel," and accusing him of converting his students to "lovers of Sparta, the enemy." Greeks Bearing Rifts: Socrates Goes Back on Trial 2011-05-17T11:20:00Z It's fair to ask whether the opinions of crabby old philosophers like Schopenhauer are relevant to a discussion of video games as art. A designer's take: Moma is wrong to pretend video games are art 2013-03-07T13:30:00Z Best known for Conan the Barbarian, Howard described Solomon as “a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher, and more than a touch of the pagan.” Movie Review: ‘Solomon Kane,’ Based on Robert E. Howard’s Novel 2012-09-27T21:54:27Z They are philosophers of the body and aesthetics as much as sound. Dua Lipa Brings Her Lockdown Anthems to the Arena 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Members came off not only as deep experts, but as historians and legal scholars and even moral philosophers as well, all very aware of the historic import of their task. How an impeachment unfolds: Inside the 1974 Nixon hearings, day by day 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z He’s a philosopher as much as an MC in that he welcomes struggle, the notion that sometimes his protagonists don’t have all the answers and feel trapped, lost, dead tired, desperate. Album review: The Roots, 'Undun' 2011-12-02T16:25:00Z Shirana Shahbazi’s large color abstractions picture what philosophers call “secondary qualities”: the colors, light and textures that contribute to the allure of desirable commodities. Art Review: ‘New Photography 2012,’ at Museum of Modern Art 2012-11-29T20:43:18Z Above all, he was a family man, deriving much pleasure and inspiration from his wife, Red, herself an accomplished philosopher and renowned psychoanalyst, and the company of his children and grandchildren. Brian O'Shaughnessy obituary 2010-07-14T17:13:00Z These are ideas well known from romantic and existentialist philosophers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Disney Pixar’s Soul: how the moviemakers took Plato’s view of existence and added a modern twist 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z Today, his impatience with the imaginary games philosophers play — “chmess” instead of chess, he calls it — and his preference for the company of scientists lead some to question if he’s still a philosopher at all. Daniel Dennett, Author of ‘Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking’ 2013-04-29T21:49:23Z It had the neck of a camel, the head of a turtle, and the flowing beard of an Eastern philosopher. Hollywood’s Turn Against Digital Effects 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z The most high-ranking of these courtesans presided over salons attended by philosophers, poets, writers, artists, musicians and incognito aristocrats. 2010-01-08T19:00:00Z The latest installment of ESPN’s documentary series explores the life and career of Bruce Lee, who, before his death at the age of 32, was an accomplished martial artist, international film star and philosopher. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘I May Destroy You’ and ‘This Country’ 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z It is akin to one of those "spatial stories" identified by the philosopher Michel de Certeau in his book The Practice of Everyday Life. Open City by Teju Cole ? review 2011-08-17T09:00:03Z “You can call him a novelist of ideas, but also a philosopher working in fiction,” Judith Shulevitz says of Coetzee in her review. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z He meets with leading physicists, theologians and philosophers. Q. & A.: Jim Holt on Why the World Exists 2012-07-18T14:09:41Z Matthew Crawford is a writer, philosopher and mechanic. How Classical Music Can Help You Hear the Open Road 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z He has edited books, given performance lectures and published interviews with philosophers, pop stars and scientists. Wolfgang Tillmans: Older, Wiser, Cooler 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z In this essay collection, the neurologist and philosopher reflects on some of his favorite subjects: creativity, evolution, Darwin and the workings of memory. New in Paperback: ‘What Happened,’ ‘A Good Country’ 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Finding true love, philosophers have always understood, can get complicated in deeply unequal places. America’s miserable economy may be ruining your love life 2014-02-16T01:00:00Z The Library of America published a collection of Lovecraft’s best works in 2005, and today literary critics, and even philosophers, are finally beginning to pay attention to this defiantly unfashionable writer. HP Lovecraft, pulp philosopher 2013-04-11T20:22:00Z He’s a deep thinker who can fix anything and loves to quote philosophers like Nietzsche. Driving the Stake Through Emotional Vampires 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z The next year, she moved to Barcelona with a new partner, the philosopher and transgender activist Paul B. Preciado. Virginie Despentes Makes France Angry, but Things Are Changing 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Your philosopher will be served at your table, along with brunch, for a conversation on the topic of clouds. Weekend Miser 2011-04-14T23:00:16Z But it's fascinating hearing him speak: Behind the street act you see there's a philosopher and a hugely thoughtful guy. Julien Temple on The Clash and punk 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z In “How Feminism Became Capitalism’s Handmaiden—and How to Reclaim It,” political philosopher Nancy Fraser sends up our culture’s valuation of female empowerment in solely fiscal terms. “Joy,” the neoliberal fairy tale: Not even populist princess Jennifer Lawrence could redeem the movie’s toxic brand of lone-wolf feminism 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z This "demon" would come to him during strange episodes when the philosopher stood still, staring for hours. Socrates ? a man for our times 2010-10-17T19:30:00Z They see the artists whose work they show as “philosophers, educators, rebels, visionaries, perhaps even degenerates.” Hong Kong’s New Kids on the Block 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Everyone involved knew this about the philosopher and his passions, and here is just one disclaimer from the preface: “There are statements which are certainly untrue, for example in the sections on stars and Protozoa.” What We're Reading: Summer Edition 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z And it is for us—writers, thinkers, journalists, philosophers—to undertake the task of rebuilding our readers’ belief in reality, their faith in the truth. Salman Rushdie on Truth, Lies, and Literature 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z This is a gifted philosopher and historian of science doing philosophy with octopuses. Exploring the origins of consciouness, cephalopod and human, with Peter Godfrey-Smith in 'Other Minds' 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z “Still under Auden’s influence, I wanted to be read by philosophers and scientists and political theorists, not just by literary readers.” John Hollander, Poet Known for His Range, Dies at 83 2013-08-18T22:06:10Z And it may result in philosophers interpreting his writing as much as symbol as literal. Magic numbers 2010-07-01T15:09:00Z Nathalie is a philosophy professor, and the script bristles with casual allusions to famous and obscure philosophers. Review: Isabelle Huppert Is Great in ‘Things to Come.’ Discuss. 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z The philosopher depicted Abe Feller bobbing like a cork on a sea of history, tossed and battered by the imperatives of property, money, and class. Unraveling my family's Cold War mystery 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z And finally, what might happen if we brought it back, if we countered baseball’s cracker-barrel philosopher by making nostalgia something of what it used to be? The lost promise of nostalgia: What modern pop culture gets wrong 2014-03-16T20:00:00Z Counting the ‘Blessings’ of Insomnia Obama’s Primary Test The Stone features the writing of contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless. Sitting With Marina 2010-05-23T21:05:00Z As in a previous trilogy that featured two bumbling philosopher frenemies, he manages to both send up intellectual life and movingly lament its erosion. Lars Iyer’s ‘Wittgenstein Jr.,’ Daniel Kehlmann’s ‘F’ and More 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z You could spend your whole life on it, as lots of philosophers have.” Stefan Sagmeister?s ?Happy Show? at Institute of Contemporary Art 2012-04-03T12:00:00Z Maybe we should revisit the view of the ancient Greek philosophers who held that there is “true” reality hidden by what we think is reality. Our godless brains: Emerging science reveals mind-blowing alternatives to a higher power 2014-04-26T20:00:00Z And this makes no mention of the activist, the naturalist, the moral philosopher, the self-exile and the utopian-community-of-one — that is, the Thoreau we care most about now. Lessons in Constructive Solitude From Thoreau 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z The late philosopher Charles Mills was similarly attuned to such discrepancies. Where Have All the Liberals Gone? 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z Just a month after replacing the first letter of culture secretary Jeremy Hunt's surname with a "c", he unwisely ventured into a debate yesterday about philosopher Immanuel Kant on 's Start the Week. Andrew Marr just Kant help himself 2011-01-18T09:36:46Z Reportedly, part of the reason is to reduce competition for China's homegrown films, like the state-backed biopic of Confucius, the ancient Chinese philosopher, starring Hong Kong superstar Chow Yun-fat, which opens this Thursday. 2010-01-19T14:44:00Z And as the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus observed, “A man’s character is his fate.” Why undecided voters are so hopeless 2014-02-13T13:30:00Z Jester, singer, psychologist, philosopher, informal physician and spoof priest, Feste knows his own superior worth: "Those wits that think they have thee do very oft prove fools." Poem of the week: When that I was and a little tiny boy by William Shakespeare 2013-04-01T09:33:58Z Mr. Salle’s mission in “How to See” is to seize art back from the sort of critics who treat each painting “as a position paper, with the artist cast as a kind of philosopher manqué.” Review: David Salle’s ‘How to See,’ a Painter’s Guide to Looking at and Discussing Art 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Danish philosopher Soeren Kierkegaard's work is so dense that he himself lamented: "People understand me so little that they do not even understand when I complain of being misunderstood." Danish philosopher's tough ideas adapted for kids 2013-05-04T06:36:08Z Not, you understand, that Jarvis wants us all to be squeaky clean and incapable of general rascality – a term coined by philosopher Alan Watts, of whom he's a fan. Jarvis Cocker: the iceman cometh 2012-06-02T19:53:37Z There goes the ancient philosopher Theophrastus with his taxonomy of social types; there goes the caricaturist William Hogarth, who believed the face to be “the index of the mind.” What Is Your True ‘Character’? And Who’s to Judge It? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z "I am a writer, a doctor, a nuclear physicist and a theoretical philosopher," Dodd explains in the film's official trailer. The Master trailer: will Paul Thomas Anderson's film inspire devotion? 2012-07-20T14:10:48Z The French philosopher explores early Christian views of desire. New & Noteworthy, From Black Emancipators to Love and Desire 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Supporters call it a welcome acknowledgement of the city as the philosopher's birthplace. Marx's German birthplace to accept controversial Chinese statue 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z They are imaginary beings, but “you have the sensation that you know that animal,” says Josep Subirós, a Spanish writer and philosopher who curated the exhibition and who is a longtime admirer of Alexander’s work. | Jane Alexander 2013-04-19T13:00:31Z I remember the philosopher Bertrand Russell was asked why he spent his time protesting against nuclear war and getting arrested on demonstrations. Noam Chomsky on Donald Trump: 'Almost a death knell for the human species' 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z This is an old question that harkens back to the debates almost six decades ago between the noted political philosopher Hannah Arendt and Dr. Martin Luther King Junior. The young people will save us: My experience marching with Black Lives Matter in Chicago 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z "The Turin Horse," a slow and solemn black-and-white film set in a 19th-century wilderness and inspired by an anecdote involving philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, displays Tarr's uncompromising, atavistic commitment to darkness, difficulty and lapidary pictorial sublimity. 'The Turin Horse': Facing the abyss in slow, black-and-white film 2012-04-19T20:22:06Z The philosopher J. David Velleman makes this argument against anonymous donor vending, which he claims intentionally deprives children of an essential ingredient in the development of a healthy identity. Do abandoned children have the right to know their origins? 2013-02-10T16:00:00Z It's a reading backed up by the writings of philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach, whom Wagner was studying while working on the Ring texts in the 1850s. Keith Warner on his Royal Opera House Ring Cycle 2012-09-26T19:00:02Z At lunch in a Berlin restaurant, she reminds a retired maestro that the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once threw a woman down a flight of stairs. One Indelible Scene: the Master Class in Ambiguity in ‘Tár’ 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z The elusive subjective conscious experience — the redness of red, the painfulness of pain — that philosophers call qualia? Daniel Dennett, Author of ‘Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking’ 2013-04-29T21:49:23Z The use of makam was integrated into medieval Islamic medicine as early as the 9th century, when scholar and philosopher Al Farabi discussed and catalogued the effect of different musical modes on body and psyche. Turkish doctors call the tune with traditional musical cures 2011-08-28T15:07:10Z He cites the philosopher Husserl, who advanced the theory of phenomenology, based on the idea that reality consists solely of objects and events as they are perceived or understood in human consciousness. I Don't Believe in Outer Space ? review 2011-02-27T00:05:44Z But for decades, he has presented himself among his fellow philosophers as a ruthless slayer of metaphysical fancy. Daniel Dennett, Author of ‘Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking’ 2013-04-29T21:49:23Z Ever the philosopher handyman, "I ask you, is this a job for intelligent men?" he questions Val as the two attempt to fix a barbed wire fence. Farewell, Fred Ward, best buddy ever 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Along with being a lifelong student and philosopher concerning myth, the author adjusts his work to suit the medium and the era in which it's being presented. How the conscientious casting of women in "The Sandman" defies the gender-swapping trope 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z As early as the second century, the Greek philosopher Celsus questioned the veracity of Noah's flood. 'The Rocks Don't Lie': looking at the evidence for a Noah-style flood 2012-08-15T19:03:03Z Narrating the action is the Scottish philosopher Adam Smith, the patron saint of laissez-faire capitalists, who argued that each person’s self-interested pursuit would automatically maximize the public good. A Political Satire on Stage, and Not About Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z And suddenly the philosopher's bright ideas, his eternal questions, his eccentric ways, started to jar. Socrates ? a man for our times 2010-10-17T19:30:00Z In 1972, Thomas Kuhn, the philosopher of science who invented the idea of “paradigm shifts,” threw an ashtray at Morris, then a graduate student. New & Noteworthy 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z An artist and philosopher rather than a vigilante by temperament, Hamlet shares with us his thinking, testing contingencies and provisionally assigning blame, most savagely against himself. Who is Hamlet? Three actors make their case 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z The French philosopher René Descartes, for instance, posited that animals don’t have a soul, therefore they don’t have a mind, therefore they are like machines. Review: Isabella Rossellini as Ringmaster in ‘Link Link Circus’ 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Some patients find it inspirational to list all those people in history who were slaves to caffeine … all the writers, poets, painters, musicians, philosophers and scientists who kept themselves artificially productive with this filthy drug. Jittery, anxious, fatigued? You could have ‘caffeine use disorder’ 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z He shares thoughts from the French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal as well: "All men seek happiness. This is without exception." Want to know what happiness is? Pastor Greg Laurie shares one key secret 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z A question for the philosophers . . . or the writers on "Stranger Things" season 4, which is coming out late this year! When a doctor forced Sean Astin to hear his "Lord of the Rings" complaint 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Place your faith in the feminist philosopher bell hooks. How Do I Deal with My Anger Toward Men? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z On the cosmic scale, some philosophers speculate that the appearance of conscious, inquiring human minds could be part of some deep evolutionary process whereby the universe comes to know itself. Is our love of nature writing bourgeois escapism? 2013-07-06T07:01:00Z Briefly, the course, which owes ideological debts to the Forum and to the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, takes an experience-based, rather than knowledge-based, approach to its subject. The Return of Werner Erhard, Father of Self-Help 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z “It’s not a Jordan Peterson thing,” he said, referring to the Canadian philosopher whose books offer advice directed at young men. The Lindy Way of Living 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z He credits Sartre with revivifying that French model of what a philosopher could be. Alain Badiou: a life in writing 2012-05-18T21:55:11Z In the air, as a seer, a social theorist and a philosopher, he was notoriously vulnerable. What Life in Confinement Meant for Ezra Pound’s Work 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Since then it has captured the imagination of many a philosopher, but until the past couple of years never gained much political traction beyond the fringes. Is Finland’s basic universal income a solution to automation, fewer jobs and lower wages? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z The basic premise — not too far removed from the television show “Kids Say the Darndest Things,” or the saying “out of the mouths of babes” — is that children are natural and underrated philosophers. In ‘Nasty, Brutish, and Short,’ Kids Say the Most Epistemological Things 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Why the famously dry philosopher played go-between remains a mystery; Adorno never wrote about it himself. Alban Berg's suite for the jilted 2011-03-17T22:44:00Z By coincidence, the series followed the 1990 publication of "Gender Trouble," the landmark book by UC Berkeley philosopher Judith Butler pointedly subtitled "Feminism and the Subversion of Identity." Caitlyn Jenner's courage is bold, Annie Leibovitz's portrait cliched 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z In fact it was Mr. Renzi’s affinity for the philosopher that really piqued my interest in pondering Machiavelli’s Florence today. In Tuscany, Following the Rise and Fall of Machiavelli 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z He chooses which clothes to wear after reading that quote from Epictetus, a philosopher who believed in divine intervention as well as the human capacity to take control of certain situations. ‘The Leftovers’ Season 2, Episode 8: Stop Thinking in Straight Lines 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Pat Nixon, however, displays a deep and touching dignity; Zhou Enlai, who has the last word, emerges as a philosopher king. Still Resonating From the Great Wall 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z "I think he's a philosopher who doesn't talk like that." A young playwright in demand: Rajiv Joseph 2011-03-31T19:46:05Z When she sticks close to her favorite philosophers in describing this state, Neiman provides a useful and engaging tutorial, much as she did in her earlier book “Evil in Modern Thought.” ‘Why Grow Up?’ by Susan Neiman 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z If I hadn’t been an actor, I’d have been a philosopher. Harvey Keitel: ‘I’ve never played a violent character’ 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z She relives bits of her history and sees what it might have been like if she had, for instance, stayed with the irresistible, irresponsible, unfaithful, unemployed musician/actor/philosopher she lived with before Dan. The Multiverse Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be in ‘Come With Me’ 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z “William James,” Sacks tells Weschler about the philosopher known as the father of American psychology, “referred incessantly to ‘the soul’ in his conversation but banished the word from his physiology. A Biography of Oliver Sacks, Written by His Boswell 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z And Mr. McKinnell relaxed the interiors, realizing that a space for artists, philosophers and historians needed to have “talking places” — nooks and crannies for informal conversation. Michael McKinnell, 84, Dies; Architect of a Monumental City Hall 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z Phalaris’s Bull: Solving the Riddle of the Great Big World L.A. premiere of molecular biologist and philosopher Steven Friedman’s autobiographical solo drama. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 12-19: 'Forever Plaid' and more 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z What’s unusual about this book is its interest in the philosophy of art, carefully reviewing the central questions that philosophers have long dealt with. What We Know About Art and the Mind 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Transcripts of the popular podcast hosted by the prolific neuroscientist and philosopher. New & Noteworthy, From Ants to Erin Brockovich 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z You would laugh about any philosopher who’d start developing an idea with this — it’s impossible, it’s not made for abstract thinking. The Carpetbagger: James Cameron, Wim Wenders Thanks You 2012-02-10T19:42:47Z The French philosopher Jean Baudrillard, traveling in New Mexico in the 1980s, declared that in America, deserts “denote the emptiness, the radical nudity that is the background to every human institution.” Ben Ehrenreich’s Dispatches From the Beginning and End of the World 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z The polymath Raymond Tallis … doctor, gerontologist, philosopher, literary critic and novelist. In Defence of Wonder and Other Philosophical Reflections by Raymond Tallis – review 2012-07-06T21:55:07Z The writers hired a philosopher, and the episode “The Trolley Problem” not only encapsulates a classic ethical conundrum, it also won a Hugo Award. "The Good Place": Ethics comedy asks if there’s a second chance at life 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z There are also basic shout-outs to other scholars: a portrait of the fellow utilitarian philosopher Henry Sidgwick, a bust of Karl Marx, and a sketch of the Greek philosopher Epicurus. The Origin Story of Peter Singer’s Instagram Account 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z They use research to tackle issues that were once the provenance of poets, theologians and philosophers. The United States of Metrics 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z An example of a very good thing after an election night that seemed to confirm that, to quote political philosopher Billy Corgan, the world is, in fact, a vampire. “Boys already had their things”: Tavi Gevinson tells Salon about Rookie, Beyoncé and feminism 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Ms. Becker, a specialist in Southeast Asian music at the University of Michigan, summarizes acres of study in and around the topic, by linguists, philosophers, historians, psychologists, musicologists. ArtsBeat: The Art of Writing About Listening 2013-05-30T16:41:33Z The discussion starts with philosopher Erwin Schrodinger’s definition of life, “Living things avoid decay into disorder and equilibrium.” Is death a real thing? 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z In a pregnant phrase, the social philosopher Bruno Latour declares, "We have never been modern." All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z He was arrested, along with philosopher Bertrand Russell, for leading a sit-in of thousands of people outside Britain’s Defense Ministry. Gustav Metzger, provocative artist who developed ‘auto-destructive’ art, dies at 90 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z “It’s perfectly fair game for philosophers to say scientists are wrong about stuff,” Mr. Sober said. Thomas Nagel Is Praised by Creationists 2013-02-06T22:56:34Z Parapsychology, a term coined in 1889 by the German psychologist and philosopher Max Dessoir for the scientific investigation of psychic or paranormal phenomena, often refers to the experimental approach to the field. Their Family Business? The Other Dimension. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Last winter we went to Leeds together, to look at a cabinet of 17th-century Qing Dynasty Chinese philosophers' stones at the Henry Moore Institute. Tom Lubbock: the pain and the pleasure 2010-12-13T17:00:00Z But all that time quoting philosophers and explaining ethical dilemmas in The Good Place has been an education for him in life as well as career. William Jackson Harper on the end of the Good Place 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z European philosophers like Thomas Hobbes and René Descartes, seeking to build a foundation of truth that was separable from the vicissitudes of emotion, articulated sharp divisions between war and peace, mind and body. How the Mind-Body Connection Is Rewiring Our Politics 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z I think people without that philosophical background do miss quite a lot – because a lot of what is going on in Nietzsche is reaction to and sometimes implicit dialogue with earlier philosophers. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z Ever since then, I’ve been fascinated by the question of how to apply the lessons of philosophers to improving everyday life – starting with my own. Lessons from the ancient philosophers to help improve our lives today 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z Some philosophers, such as Thomas Scanlon, argue that ethics is about what humans “owe to each other.” The $70 billion Americans spend on pets could do more good 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z The earliest known documentation of vegan eating is from 500 BC, when the Greek philosopher Pythagoras, known for the Pythagorean Theorem, wrote about a vegetarian-like diet. 6 tips for adopting the vegan diet 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z The way I see it," the young philosopher says, "learning is like a virus. Freakonomics: The Dismal Science Brightens Up on Screen 2010-10-02T06:30:00Z As the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said more than a century ago, “Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.” When the Cyberbully Is You 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z You have the makings of a philosopher because you are staring into the existential void — and you are feeling it. Perspective | Ask Amy: Adult kids’ fights always involve the folks 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z The example set by Jeremy Bentham, the 18th-century English philosopher, might be considered truly avant-garde. What’s That? You Want to be Buried How? 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z "A political advertising man has taken the place of generations of socialist philosophers," observed Anthony Seldon in his Blair biography, published in 2004. Philip Gould: An Unfinished Life, edited by Dennis Kavanagh - review 2012-09-26T07:30:04Z The philosopher Arthur Danto built an illustrious career, and a whole school of thought, around the importance of those boxes to understanding the very nature of artworks. Warhol a Lame Copier? The Judges Who Said So Are Sadly Mistaken. 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z The first two winners were the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor and the British philosopher Onora O’Neill. Martha Nussbaum Wins $1 Million Berggruen Prize 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z The premise of “Life After Life” comes from a quote by the Greek philosopher Pindar. ‘Life After Life’: One woman’s story, told and retold 2013-04-03T23:20:06Z “I mean, when people look at me I want them to think—there’s one of those people that reasons, that is a philosopher, that has their own interpretation of happiness. That’s what I am.” Lou Sullivan’s Diaries Are a Radical Testament to Trans Happiness 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z In them, Maximianus, who flourished in the 6th century and was a friend of the philosopher Boethius, epigrammatically reflects on old age, lost love and sexual impotence. Perspective | Why the literature of antiquity still matters 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z The philosopher prepares to drink the hemlock, proffered by a disciple who can’t bear to watch. The Dangerous Beauty of Jacques-Louis David 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Mike Ortolano, a founder of a marketing and sales agency that works with start-ups, said the concept reminds him of postmodern philosophers. What Makes a ‘Narrative Violation’? 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z His audience includes seekers, armchair philosophers, Big Tech skeptics and New Age types looking for meaning beyond wellness-industry platitudes, he said. A Pop Star Becomes a Guru 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z “Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back,” the philosopher and Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote in “Meditations,” his second-century accounting of the vagaries of living. Doug Paisley’s Winter Melancholy on “Starter Home” 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Environmental philosopher Gary Varner identifies three types of hunting: therapeutic, subsistence and sport. Searching for answers: How to understand the morality of hunting 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Here we have a philosopher who spent a lot of energy parsing the distinction between the corporeal and the idealized, between the particular and the universal. Designing a Book Cover for Italo Calvino 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z First performed in Bologna in 1811, when Rossini was 19, the “bizarre misunderstanding” concerns a bookish young woman named Ernestina — sung by the brilliant young mezzo-soprano Teresa Iervolino — who would like to marry a philosopher. Pesaro’s Opera Festival Accelerated Rossini’s Renaissance 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z When the city was feeling strong, the quirky philosopher could be tolerated. Socrates ? a man for our times 2010-10-17T19:30:00Z For one fan of philosopher Slavoj Zizek, waiting outside his new film The Pervert's Guide To Ideology, getting a ticket to see him speak afterwards caused her to burst publicly into tears. Toronto closes after very public festival 2012-09-13T10:22:04Z Nothing if not a pragmatist, McConaughey even now enthusiastically lectures me about his romcom chops, an unlikely philosopher of the genre. Matthew McConaughey: from himbo to psycho 2012-06-28T19:00:03Z “I happen to be rather a famous philosopher; my name is Professor Sir Alfred Ayer,” he said. Literary Lions, by Their Cubs 2011-08-10T21:14:41Z As wars and religious conflicts plagued Europe, philosophers and scientists sparred with each other over whether a human’s inner self was an immortal and divine essence, or merely a fallible natural object. Lost soul 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z "You don't have to want to be a professional philosopher," she said. Malmesbury bids to become UK's first 'philosophy town' 2010-10-17T23:01:00Z By its very nature, concludes the philosopher, life is a disappointment and a cheat. Review | ‘On the Suffering of the World’ sounds depressing, but perhaps it is a call to action, too 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z One artist, Joseph Kosuth, places clocks with hands running at different speeds alongside existential quotes from philosophers in neon. A Gilded Age Setting for a Huge Art Show 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z There’s a darker edge to the oddly down-home, gas station philosopher Joseph within Kentucky Route Zero, the horrifying feeling of being controlled in The Stanley Parable or the two devastating science-fiction endings of The Swapper. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: The Year of the Indie 2013-12-25T13:01:28Z At the root of hospitality is the Latin word “hostis,” wrote the philosopher Anne Dufourmantelle, which means guest, but also enemy. What Is Hospitality? The Current Answer Doesn’t Work. 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z When he paraphrases Merleau-Ponty, the French philosopher who viewed the body as the centre of perception, he voices lyrically one of the poem's principle conundrums: "the toucher touching touched". Poem of the week: Relational Epistemology by Heather Phillipson 2013-05-07T10:35:31Z In his short biography Mr Moshenska successfully brings back to life a forgotten self-made man who was at the same time braggadocio and philosopher, and who seemed to live so many lives. Forgotten hero 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z In this Sunday’s Book Review, Alexander Star reviews a new book about the reactions of Americans to the powerful and controversial work of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Nietzsche Bewitches America and the Science of Middle Age 2012-01-13T23:20:00Z For many philosophers, such a label indicates a resistance to reductive materialism without an acceptance of Cartesian dualism – René Descartes' view that in some respects, the mind stands separate from the body. Brian O'Shaughnessy obituary 2010-07-14T17:13:00Z Immersing himself in an eclectic circle that included the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and the composer Arnold Schoenberg, he developed his approach to design not only as a practitioner but also as a writer. Josef Hoffmann and Adolf Loos, Contrasting Modernist Architects 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z It was the only Broadway musical comedy in memory to be based on a classic fable by the 18th-century philosopher Voltaire. Theater preview: The fall and rise of 'Candide' 2010-05-20T20:13:00Z The complex known as Ca’ Mocenigo is said, for example, to be haunted by the 16th-century philosopher Giordano Bruno, whose exasperated host delivered him to the Inquisition. Three Wealthy Women and Their Venetian Mansion 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z It captures an essential incoherence of so many thin-skinned comics when they complain about offended audiences: The podcasters insist they are just telling inconsequential jokes a second before describing comics as philosophers. Does a Comedian Really Need an Audience? 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Since 1977, the Cornelia Street Café has been a bulwark for aspiring and established, prosperous and penurious local poets, philosophers, performers and prophets and the people who love them. Weekend Miser: Cornelia Street Café Presents ‘Fruits of Labor’ 2013-08-29T20:15:46Z Luc Ferry, the philosopher and a former education minister, lectured Mr. Hessel in an open letter that indignation is the last passion needed in France at the moment. At 93, Former Resistance Fighter Goads France to Outrage 2011-03-09T10:30:05Z As the neighborhood philosopher from next door, Jonathan Hadary emits sour bulletins from Schopenhauer with precise, funny inflections. Theater Review: ‘Golden Boy,’ Directed by Bartlett Sher 2012-12-07T03:00:19Z His last novel, “Wittgenstein Jr.,” is a funhouse version of this one; it fictionalized the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein as a modern-day Cambridge professor, as seen through the eyes of his students. If Nietzsche Were in High School 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z “He’s my philosopher — Condorito has answers for everything,” said Ms. Frimkess, who has described her own life as a soap opera. Frimkess Ceramics Have Their Moment at Hammer Museum 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z It’s odd to watch Scarface, one of rap music’s great philosophers, effectively pass on “Jesus Walks,” maybe the most meaningful and popular spiritual hip-hop song of all time. Kanye West Always Wanted You to Watch 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z The French philosopher Michel Foucault argued that the ancient Greeks saw it as integral to democracy: self-care was a necessary part of care for others. Generation treat yo' self: the problem with 'self-care' 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. Louise Bourgeois: a web of emotions 2010-06-01T20:30:00Z The scientist and philosopher wrote the missive a year before his death in 1955 and it is being sold by a private collector. Einstein's 'God Letter' may fetch up to $1.5 million at New York... 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Their work was rooted in deconstruction, the approach to analyzing the multilayered relationship between a text and its meaning that was advanced by the 20th-century French philosopher Jacques Derrida. Geoffrey H. Hartman, Scholar Who Saw Literary Criticism as Art, Dies at 86 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Burnett, 59, is a self-contained, acerbic, existential atheist with an earring, while Mr. Evans, 63, is an outgoing, verbose, practicing Christian with the gray beard of a philosopher. Want to Find Fulfillment at Last? Think Like a Designer 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z What else to expect from a philosopher who describes himself as dynamite? Two New Books Confront Nietzsche and His Ideas 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z His last words were reportedly: "I have lived as a philosopher; I die as a Christian." Casanova unveiled: new edition of his book reveals the man who loved liberty as much as women 2013-03-30T13:04:25Z Cleland, a philosopher based at the university's astrobiology centre, calls this ethereal dimension the shadow biosphere. Life on Earth… but not as we know it 2013-04-13T23:05:01Z In a field of inquiry characterized by elusive concepts, dizzying “isms” and subtle taxonomies, philosophers are in continual battle to resist simplification. Hilary Putnam, Giant of Modern Philosophy, Dies at 89 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Better yet, philosophers, such as Benjamin and Nietzsche, assert guiding principles throughout, lending humanity to the string of worrisome numbers and compendiums of bad urban planning. Venice is just the beginning — the West is sinking into a sea of commerce 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Matt Ross’s “Captain America” starred Viggo Mortensen at his most charismatic, portraying a disaffected dad raising his six children to be anti-consumerist “philosopher kings” in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest. At Cannes, films show appreciation for real world 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Gehry is not a theoretician or a philosopher — and has never claimed to be. An avuncular Frank Gehry takes to the Web in new online master class 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z The cause was cancer, said her husband, the philosopher Thomas Nagel. Anne Hollander, Scholar of Style, Dies at 83 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Writing about the ethics and politics of hospitality, another philosopher, Jacques Derrida, claimed that “unconditional hospitality is impossible.” What Is Hospitality? The Current Answer Doesn’t Work. 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z Has there been another treasure-hunting single mum philosopher on the high seas? The original Suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Aristotle, meanwhile, is the philosopher incarnate: "All head… his thinning hair looked as if its roots had been forced apart by the growth of the massive brain." Looking back at the Lost Booker: Mary Renault 2010-05-03T09:00:00Z Loyalty programs weren’t around when the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus opined that the only constant in life is change. Costlier Flights, Cheaper Hotels and Meeting Adam Levine: the New Loyalty Programs 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z When forerunners of Western democracy began emerging four hundred years ago, the philosophers Hobbes and Vico predicted they would inevitably lead to chaos and a return to all-powerful central control. Is Donald Trump "crazy?" Wrong question 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Much of the philosopher’s thought turns out to resemble classical Eastern teaching: The author of “The World as Will and Representation” kept both a statue of Buddha and a bust of Kant on his desk. Review | ‘On the Suffering of the World’ sounds depressing, but perhaps it is a call to action, too 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Arsène is a philosopher, the most cerebral of all the managers. Tom Ellis's favourite TV 2012-11-24T00:05:26Z Hall invented the line to sum up Voltaire’s thinking in regard to the writings of French philosopher Claude Adrien Helvétius, but because it was written in first person, many misread it as an actual quote. Freud never said that: 19 of history’s most famous misquotes 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Publishers changed the title image to "Sorcerer's Stone" in America, assuming Americans would shun "philosopher" talk. Religion: Final gasp of the 'Harry Potter' wars? 2011-07-18T16:00:06Z Gerda became interested in gender as a performance – long before philosopher Judith Butler – and in 1904, when one of her models failed to turn up for a sitting, she asked her husband to pose instead. Gerda Wegener: 'The Lady Gaga of the 1920s' 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Jennifer Hecht is a philosopher who studies the history of happiness. Permanent happiness is a myth: Why you shouldn’t want to always be happy 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z "It's important that a French philosopher think in French," he said. New guardian of French tongue is (gasp!) British 2013-04-04T13:50:15Z The philosopher George Santayana’s novel “The Last Puritan,” published in 1935, portrayed this coddling and deforming as a plutocratic corruption of the original Puritan, communal covenants of Harvard and Yale. The coddling of the conservative mind 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z These existential questions, best addressed by philosophers, clergy and shrinks, have found a new oracle. What hue looks best on you? Color analysis is back to help us obsess over our personal identities. 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z “Media-savvy philosophers,” which are apparently a thing in France, analyze this extraordinary phenomenon on Paris talk shows. Review | Hervé Le Tellier’s ‘The Anomaly’ has already sold a million copies in France. It should take off here, too. 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z There’s a photomontage of Barack Obama, who called Niebuhr “one of my favorite philosophers” while a senator and cited his “compelling idea that there’s serious evil in the world.” A Few Theories about Why James Comey Might Call Himself “Reinhold Niebuhr” on Twitter 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Norbert Wiener, a budding philosopher and mathematician, was 14, and William Sidis, a star in linguistics and mathematics, was only 11. Gifted and Talented and Complicated 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z There is a particular kind of speech that philosophers and linguists call “speech acts”, described by J.L. “Mere” speech has powerful consequences 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z “Play is about becoming human,” the philosopher Vanderloon writes, “just as it is also about becoming a lion, a tugboat, a galloping stallion.” Rikki Ducornet's 'Brightfellow' is a sophisticated embodiment of children's imagination 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z He’s supposed to be a bored slacker philosopher, but in character terms, he’s too inconsistent to latch onto. Review: ‘Downward Dog’ Talks but Sure Is Hard on the Ears 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z He takes inspiration from the writings of the Martinique philosopher Édouard Glissant and his ideas around opacity — that the oppressed have a right to be unknowable. Review: Dancers Fighting for Their Place in a Dystopian World 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z McGuinness borrowed his title from the Greek philosopher Diogenes, who reportedly said “When I die, throw me to the wolves. I’m used to it.” Review | ‘Throw Me to the Wolves’ is both a caustic social commentary and a riveting crime novel 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z The grid as a form gets an impressive pre-Minimalist workout in 1940s room dividers made of cellophane and horsehair by the incomparable weaver, printmaker, art historian, philosopher, teacher, theorist and life-student Anni Albers. At MoMA, Women at Play in the Fields of Abstraction 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z He discovered the work of Arthur Schopenhauer, a German philosopher, in 1854. A spine-tingling and blissful infinity 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Particularly engaging are insights from the British philosopher Simon Critchley, who has written about various philosophers’ deaths. Review: In ‘The Undertaking,’ Considering the End With Some Laughter 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z A lot of people today associate the Greek philosopher, born in 341 BC, with luxury or hedonism, but Epicurus’s teachings were really more focussed on simplicity. Lessons from the ancient philosophers to help improve our lives today 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z French philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's Omega Point is "a maximum level of complexity and consciousness towards which the universe appears to be evolving". Point Omega by Don DeLillo | Book review 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z They seem to have thought that your average guitarist was a philosopher king in loon pants. Kid Sister: Ultraviolet 2010-04-29T14:30:00Z Some -- say, the works of philosopher Martin Heidegger -- may not have as wide a sales appeal as others. What Amazon's e-book numbers are and aren't telling you 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z The prominent philosopher of science is an advocate for hard-nosed empiricism, and as a leading New Atheist he calls for naturalistic explanations of religion. The end of religion as we know it: Why churches can no longer hide the truth 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z Whether you’re a philosopher or a sitcom actor, your value is affirmed by the mere fact that you’ve been asked the questions at all. How the Proust Questionnaire Went from Literary Curio to Prestige Personality Quiz 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z More than 60 philosophers will hold forth, in 20-minute bursts, on knotty problems in logic, ethics, metaphysics and religion. Ready Thyself for an All-Night Philosophy Jam 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z If work is our national religion, Pang is the philosopher reintegrating our bifurcated selves. Arianna Huffington on a Book About Working Less, Resting More 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z Plausibly, the survival advantage of vision gave rise to our reflexive bias for believing that the world is as we perceive it to be, an error that psychologists and philosophers call naive realism. Pop neuroscience is bunk! 2013-06-08T15:30:00Z In 1845, the philosopher Moses Hess defined money as “the coagulated blood of those who suffer”; Marxist theorists envisioned the bourgeoisie as “leeches” and “images of the living dead.” Are Vampires Cancelled? 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z But in 1940, as the world consumed itself in war, despair gripped the German critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin. We spend so much time staring at our phones. What do we miss when we don't look up? | Mel Campbell 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Aristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and earlier Greek philosophers did wonder what the world was made of. ‘Why Does the World Exist?’ by Jim Holt 2012-08-03T22:40:08Z In the early 19th century, the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer paid special attention to the capacity for suffering in human life. Should We Be More Pessimistic? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Questions of anguish and woe are real—philosophers and the religious faithful have been mulling them for millennia—but surely there is a way to phrase them that does not facilitate vertigo. Can We Escape the Diabolical Clichés of Coldplay? 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z The philosophers stay very general, so everyday religious practices, poverty and gender dynamics play no role. Books of The Times: The Classics as the Antidote to Modern Malaise 2011-01-04T01:18:40Z He was reading a lot of Eastern and German philosophers and psychology books. Brother rescues 400 lost works from storage unit by late Spanish artist Gil Cuatrecasas 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z "There is nothing new under the sun," he concludes, ever the prankster philosopher. Smoke signals from the Vatican spell hellfire from reggae's stars 2013-03-14T17:20:45Z Here was the kind of epic work which wove the lives and ideas of 19th-century Russian philosophers into the overall movement of history. Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z The minuscule gives us access to “the enlarging gaze of the child,” as the philosopher Gaston Bachelard puts it in his book “The Poetics of Space.” ‘Marcel the Shell With Shoes On’ Review: Bigger Isn’t Better 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Diogenes, the second-rate, second-century AD epicurean philosopher, ensured his own survival by having his thoughts inscribed on the wall of his home city of Oenoanda in what is now Turkey. 'You may now turn over your papers' 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z For Beauvoir, though, it seemed more important for Bair to record her as a philosopher than as a feminist icon. Learning the Wiles of a Biographer, With Beckett and Beauvoir 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z In the 1930s and ’40s screwballs that the philosopher Stanley Cavell calls the comedies of remarriage, men and women trade insults and seductive looks as they work through what it means to be modern. Review: In ‘Sleeping With Other People,’ Star-Crossed Sex Addicts Make a Pact 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z He detested what the philosopher Bernard Williams called the "fetish of assertion" on a speaker's part. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z He also wrote on the sixth-century philosopher Boethius, the 12th-century Spanish Arabic scholar Averroes and later thinkers and theologians, including Cardinal Newman, Kierkegaard, Pascal and Descartes. 2010-02-16T05:29:00Z In a wonderful case study, the philosopher of science Elisabeth Lloyd argues that various forms of bias have affected scientists’ work in this domain. What is the female orgasm for? Science, gender bias, and the “upsuck” theory that won’t go away 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z I'm a philosopher and a romantic and a smut hound. New band of the day ? Spielgusher (No 1,203) 2012-02-08T17:18:00Z They were still free, the philosopher insisted, to say what those ills meant to them. Freedom fighter 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z It worried philosophers accustomed to clear and inviolable boundaries made by the Creator. Darwin's Ghosts by Rebecca Stott – review 2012-06-01T21:55:09Z She absorbs the work of French philosophers and aches to share their fresh ideas with her new subjects. "The Great" is the cheeky post-enlightment balm we've been waiting for 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z It's a phrase that is quoted frequently by politicians and philosophers alike, but what did Rousseau really mean? The Big Ideas podcast: Rousseau's 'Man is born free' 2012-07-10T16:00:01Z Rothko was a fan of the book The Birth of Tragedy by German philosopher Frederick Nietzsche. The Tate's Mark Rothko exhibit: a room with a view of the subconscious 2011-03-30T13:58:43Z Because that’s also the place of the artist, the place of the poet, the place of the philosopher. ‘Everyone wants a place where they feel safe,’ says Joy Harjo, the first Native American U.S. poet laureate 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z A: There are at least four or five answers I could give you, and I fear we would find ourselves wading deep into territory that philosophers who examine good and evil write books about. Translating a Novel of Sadism 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z “How was Danny at the right place at the right time, so many times? I think he’s really a philosopher at heart, who helped launch a revolution.” Danny Fields Loved Punk Rock. It Loved Him Back. 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Through this pavilion, architect and philosopher walk together again in a vibrant green space. The new Sepentine pavilion is a rhapsody in red 2010-07-06T20:31:00Z Socrates, the famed Greek philosopher, made a rare public appearance on May 12, in the Ceremonial Courtroom of Manhattan's Federal Courthouse. Greeks Bearing Rifts: Socrates Goes Back on Trial 2011-05-17T11:20:00Z Having formerly produced headlines for Arabic magazines as a student, Mr. Massoudy now bases his compositions on texts from Eastern and Western poets, authors and philosophers. An Iraqi-Born Artist Who Speaks Through Arcs of Calligraphy 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z A scientist is part of what the Polish philosopher of science Ludwik Fleck called a “thought collective”: a group of people exchanging ideas in a mutually comprehensible idiom. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Haida is a self-proclaimed philosopher in the making, and he sits on the cusp of the earnest and the absurd. Haruki Murakami’s ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’ 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Once when the philosopher was enjoying an especially fine afternoon, his admirer Alexander the Great asked whether there was anything he could do for him. Review | Aristotle’s lisp, why Socrates loved dancing and other tales of ancient thinkers 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z She had recently split from the father of her son, Raphaël Enthoven – a philosopher whose father she had previously dated – and Sarkozy's second marriage had just ended. Carla Bruni: Sarkozy and me 2013-06-01T08:00:00Z His mother, a political philosopher, also teaches there. A Play ‘Meant to Trouble’ From a Writer Raised in Conservatism 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z Audible, the world's biggest online talking bookshop, hasn't quite got round to e-book tokens but don't worry, they will, though it won't be the same as opening a tin of philosopher's stones. Christmas gifts 2012: the best audiobooks 2012-11-30T22:55:09Z The French philosopher Roland Barthes woke me up in my undergrad years with his book “Mythologies,” which shows how everyday objects like French fries, toys, and soap are completely readable micro-indexes of an entire culture. “Comment sections are brilliant and extremely relevant”: Christy Wampole on the awfulness of Facebook, the utility of “think pieces” and why you might be reading the Internet all wrong 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Which, of course, as the philosopher said, means we are doomed to repeat it. Review | ‘Greater Clements’ is the best new play of the year 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Above all, it teaches you why babies are the best philosophers and why lego is the most ingenious toy on earth.Tintin. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder - review 2012-06-11T08:00:00Z Winding down parties are full of philosophers, another detail this series plays out in the very end. Tardy to the "Russian Doll" party? Welcome, sweet birthday babies! 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z This volume of 1970s essays by the French philosopher worries in different ways at the question of the construction of "the people" by those who claim to be speaking for them. Non-fiction reviews roundup 2012-06-29T07:00:01Z A philosopher argues in favor of embracing digital worlds and employs virtual reality technology to reach new insights on longstanding philosophical questions. Newly Published, From Virtual Worlds to a History of Clothing 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z And they are critics and philosophers of a kind, puzzling over old and stubborn questions. Review: ‘The Price of Everything’ Asks $56 Billion Questions About Art 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z While Motherwell’s most famous black-and-white canvases, produced later in his career, appear muscular or aggressive, in person, he was the erudite, soft-spoken philosopher of Abstract Expressionism. The Inquisitive Guest Visits a Motherwell Retrospective 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z A Black Forest trek to German philosopher Heidegger’s writing ‘hut’ Following a trail of schnapps through Germany’s storied Black Forest 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Schur also brought on the philosopher Todd May as a consultant after reading his book, “Death.” Michael Schur’s Unending Quest to Be Perfect 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z He quotes sages ranging from Seneca, the Stoic philosopher, to James Brown and Jack Kerouac. When Growing Old Is a Blessing 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z He approvingly quotes the Scottish philosopher R. M. Wenley, who called it, among other things, the resort “of the knave, who knows just enough about life to deem himself able to laugh at it.” Finding Alarm and Consolation About the Apocalypse in Two New Books 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z He was also a type of humanist philosopher. Stan Lee has departed our universe, having “surpassed his wildest dreams” 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z An etymological connection to the Jewish philosopher Maimonides is also possible, as is one to the name of a Berber goddess. Celebrating Mimouna and Its Dose of Post-Passover Carbs 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z He was mathematician, physicist, engineer, philosopher, musician and social and political activist, and he had a highly developed visual artistic sense. Peter Forbes: rereading Einstein's collected papers 2013-06-21T09:00:02Z A fine and celebratory book might have been made of that: the scientists, doctors, dentists, painters, musicians, philosophers, soldiers, economists, politicians, explorers who have immeasurably benefited humankind. Heroes and Exiles: Gay Icons Through the Ages by Tom Ambrose | Book review 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z The bass Andrea Concetti acquitted himself honorably in the ungrateful part of Seneca, the Stoic philosopher and Nero’s tutor, who is ordered to commit suicide for trying to intervene in his pupil’s amorous escapades. ‘L’Incoronazione di Poppea,’ a Robert Wilson Production 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z Faust, Goethe's ageing philosopher who dances with the devil, is a Doctor Atomic figure. Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z The book has sold in excess of 8 million copies — the highest-ranking sales of any book by any philosopher in the history of humankind. Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story 2014-04-25T23:00:00Z British philosopher Bertrand Russell was among the book's admirers. Remembering 'Brave New World' author Aldous Huxley, born 123 years ago today 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Like the ancient philosophers whose ideas of the universe predicted later discoveries, Chandrasekar expresses both mystical and scientific verities. Review | In the galleries: Exploring the tension between physical and digital art 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Until the 1830s careful observers and interpreters of the world were known as natural philosophers. Review: In ‘The Cabaret of Plants,’ Richard Mabey Demonstrates Their Richness 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Wilson structures “A Magical World” as essentially a series of lightly sketched biographies of the era’s most prominent theologians, philosophers, physicians, cosmographers and antiquaries. Review | How scientists came to be 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Monk has written two previous, and no less wonderful, biographies, both of great 20th-century philosophers. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z The hand-wringing over public and private faces is similarly silly: public image is a concept philosophers were talking about 400 years BCE! Facebook’s Last Taboo: The Unhappy Marriage 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z I was heartened when I came across a comment by philosopher and historian Jean-Pierre Dupuy: "It was inevitable that meaning would force its way back in." James Gleick: 'Information poses as many challenges as opportunities' 2011-04-09T23:05:59Z In it he weaves his own observations and experiences with those of scientists, poets and philosophers. One step ahead: how walking opens new horizons 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z It's really a work in the tradition of "Emile," the 18th-century book by the philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau who hung his theories of education on the frame of the life of one child. 'Social Animal' author David Brooks says your unconscious can be your best friend 2011-03-16T22:14:04Z For those in search of something slightly more highbrow, Rachel Weisz stars in Agora, the true story of a female Roman philosopher, Hypatia of Alexandria. Classic tales 2010-04-07T08:34:00Z To his staunchest defenders, however, he was a Nazi of convenience — a sometime personal anti-Semite, perhaps, but a philosopher whose towering intellectual achievements are undiminished by temporary political dalliances or everyday bias. Heidegger’s Notebooks Renew Focus on Anti-Semitism 2014-03-30T21:44:42Z The great philosopher Antonio Gramsci was one of the first Marxist theoreticians who understood that almost every act of politics is a pedagogical practice. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 2 of 2 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z It might appeal to teenagers struggling with the German philosopher’s abstruse thinking. Auctions: Uptown From Wall Street, a Bull Market 2011-11-04T13:00:10Z The doc is a cracker-barrel philosopher and occasional omniscient narrator in the folksy tradition of the Stage Manager of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town.” Review: ‘Girl From the North Country’ Sets the Darkness Aglow 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Some philosophers are scornful of the notion that the life can help us understand the work. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z Or, as the philosopher Thomas Nagel wondered in the title of a well-known essay: “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” Animals Continue to Fascinate Humans: Films Prove It 2012-03-31T06:36:09Z He's the Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius liked to quote. Bringing Down a Media Empire 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z “Left Exit,” which began with a kinetic, amusing solo from Mr. Curran and segued into a female quartet, offered a physical accompaniment to philosophers talking about religion, Romanticism and other big topics. Dance Review: An Intimate Setting For a Range of Intensity 2011-04-14T21:35:48Z Mr. Abreu is referred to by his loyalists as a father, a saint, a visionary, a philosopher or, most often, simply as maestro. Jos? Antonio Abreu Leads El Sistema in Venezuela 2012-03-01T13:00:00Z To grasp why, ignore the countless self-help books on communication in relationships and turn instead to an old, rather technical work, How To Do Things With Words, by the philosopher JL Austin. How to pick (and stop) an argument 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z To misquote a famous philosopher: "Technology without the arts is empty, the arts without technology are blind." Letters: There's more to life than gross domestic product 2010-04-01T23:05:00Z Montparnasse Cemetery contains the graves of other well known people, including philosopher and playwright Jean-Paul Sartre, and writers Simone de Beauvoir and Charles Baudelaire. Surrealist artist Man Ray's tomb vandalized in Paris 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z One character I particularly liked was the Muskrat, a philosopher, who thinks about how unnecessary everything is! Comet in Moominland by Tove Jansson - review 2013-04-15T14:00:00Z Starting as early as the 1970s, some cognitive psychologists, philosophers, and linguists began to wonder whether meaning wasn’t something totally different from a language of thought. Where does language come from? 2012-10-20T17:00:00Z Müller begins by acknowledging the widespread fear that “democracy is in crisis” before pointing out that few people who aren’t political philosophers have given any sustained thought to what democracy actually is. Democracy Is for Losers (and Why That’s a Good Thing) 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z The museum celebrates the life of Swami Vivekananda, a philosopher and spiritual leader who became a fierce proponent of Indian nationalism. An Indian City Bursting With Action 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z “He is perhaps the most incomprehensible of all French philosophers,” Mr. Stromgren said of Derrida. ArtsBeat: Roots in New York, but Stretching to Europe: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet at Joyce Theater 2012-05-15T17:47:12Z Tully, you see, is more than just a beach bum; he’s a philosopher in flip-flops. Review: ‘Escape to Margaritaville,’ Where Work Is a Dirty Word 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z For philosophers and theologians of the time, chapters were an example of a wider cultural dilemma. The Chapter: A History 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z In 1969, the philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote of the abysmal disinterest of scientists or intellectuals in violence as a subject of serious study, “No one questions or examines what is obvious to all.” “The Raft” Chronicles an Extreme Experiment with Human Nature 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z And the secret may lie in how she connects to the spirit of the age: she is a curious capitalist philosopher with a brilliant instinct for modern desire. | Miuccia Prada’s Circle of Influence 2013-05-27T13:00:48Z Instead, our group caught the free shuttle back to the station, hopped aboard the 4:55 train and on the way home discussed everything from pre-Socratic philosophers to Google’s new Nexus One cellphone. 2010-01-13T13:42:00Z For this week's readers' recommend we're asking – what are the greatest songs about philosophers? Readers recommend: songs about philosophers 2012-11-15T22:00:00Z Figuratively speaking, the whale Turner was trying to capture was the Sublime, a topic on the minds of the philosophers, artists and poets of his day. In Turner Paintings at the Met, the Bloody Business of Whaling 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z George Soros was heavily influenced by the Austrian philosopher Karl Popper. A Wall Street Giant Makes a $75 Million Bet on Academic Philosophy 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z The philosopher Jacques Derrida might have said it is this very elusiveness — the sense that meaning can never be pinned down by language — that is Gorey's overarching point. Edward Gorey's sensibility is growing like nightshade 2011-03-05T03:09:56Z Watch one of her sets and you're likely to be bombarded by references to Samuel Beckett and TS Eliot, or invited to consider which philosophers would make the most suitable guests at a dinner party. This week's new comedy 2012-02-11T00:05:00Z You seem to have a lot of fun parsing how mathematicians have evaluated the Torah and Shakespeare, and your book is filled with quotes from poets and philosophers. In 'How Not to Be Wrong' Jordan Ellenberg makes math meaningful 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z In the drama "A Face in the Crowd," he starred as Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes, a local jailbird and amateur singer who becomes a homespun philosopher on national television. Beloved actor Andy Griffith dies at 86 2012-07-03T16:37:09Z The book, which was partly autobiographical, was praised by the philosopher Sidney Hook and the historian Robert K. Massie. Lev Navrozov, Literary Translator and Soviet Dissident, Dies at 88 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z A favorite passage from “King Lear” appears in “Birthday Candles,” and the name of an onstage goldfish — Atman — comes from the name of a poodle adored by the great German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. Playwright Noah Haidle blows out his ‘Birthday Candles’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z The episode’s plot is bizarre: Aliens who worship the Greek philosopher Plato use telekinetic powers to force the Enterprise crew to sing, dance and kiss. TV’s first interracial kiss launched a lifelong career in activism 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z When Republican primary candidates were asked to name their favorite philosopher in a 1999 debate, for instance, Bush immediately named Christ, “because He changed my heart.” Christian America is an invention: Big business, right-wing politics and the religious lie that still divides us 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Set in a sci-fi dystopia, it hinges on the actions of Emanon, a “rogue philosopher” urging resistance to fear and oppression. Wayne Shorter, Intrepid Saxophonist and Composer, Dies at 89 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Descartes complains that "the philosophers of the schools accept as a maxim that there is nothing in the understanding which was not previously in the senses". Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z Might this be a jab at Jean Toomer, the author of “Cane” who became an acolyte for the mystic philosopher G.I. Review | Claude McKay abandoned ‘Romance in Marseille’ because it was too daring. He was just ahead of his time. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Ward liked the interplay between Apollo, a god of Greek mythology, and Socrates, the park’s philosopher namesake. The Artist Nari Ward on the the Goat as a Symbol of Democracy 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z Even the Catholic Church sees this not as a theological issue but as a matter of natural law, more a subject for philosophers, psychiatrists and scientists than for preachers as such. The Pious Presidency of Jimmy Carter 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z She will join scientist Marie Curie, philosopher Voltaire, writer Victor Hugo and other French luminaries. Black artist Josephine Baker honored at France’s Pantheon 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Sloterdijk can be very funny, in an intensely sardonic way, about "quasi-homeopathic philosophers", "loser romanticism", or the notion of intellectual "commitment". Non-fiction roundup - reviews 2012-10-05T21:55:05Z The philosopher Pascal Bruckner is in many ways the model of a modern French intellectual. Pascal Bruckner: 'Happiness is a moment of grace' 2011-01-23T00:05:40Z Both highlight America’s complacency about fascism during the early years of World War II, and both involve famous refugees from Europe — the French philosopher and activist Simone Weil and the German novelist Thomas Mann. Mary Gordon’s latest offers thoughtful characters in the throes of change No, I appreciate good writing and strong storytelling — whether the book is a serial killer thriller or a philosopher’s biography. The One Book Stacey Abrams Would Require the President to Read 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z The voice in “Mind Out of Matter” is that of the philosopher Daniel Dennett, who has proposed applying the principles of Darwinian evolutionary biology to human cultural evolution, and specifically to the history of religion. ‘Mind Out of Matter,’ From the Composer Scott Johnson 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Just why this should be still puzzles anthropologists, psychologists and philosophers. Please Give warns the well-off they can never be good 2010-06-21T10:44:00Z In his own cantankerous way, he had an attitude like Albert Camus, who always insisted that he was not a philosopher but a journalist first. Charles Bowden: Tom Zoellner and Luis Urrea pay tribute 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z A question for any philosophers who aren't pondering "The Good Place" and have nothing else better to do. Obama releases his TV Top 10 List, reminding Americans that he (unlike Trump) is just like us 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z An American-born philosopher who lives in Berlin, Neiman has a pundit’s fondness for the sweeping generalization and the carefully hedged argumentative claim. ‘Why Grow Up?’ by Susan Neiman 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z And from Carl Sagan’s original series, one more cautionary tale: the story of Hypatia of Alexandria, a philosopher, astronomer and mathematician who lived in fourth-century Egypt in the waning days of the Roman Empire. Cosmic terror: Why Neil deGrasse Tyson has religious fundamentalists so freaked 2014-03-27T11:50:00Z A second organization that promotes similar research, the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, includes not only psychologists but philosophers, sociologists and neuroscientists. Do You Like ‘Dogs Playing Poker’? Science Would Like to Know Why 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z Weeks later a young Israeli philosopher named Avner Cohen wrote an article for The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists expressing wonder that the global nuclear debate found no echo in Israel. Books of The Times: Vague, Opaque and Ambiguous: Israel?s Hush-Hush Nuclear Policy 2010-10-13T23:25:00Z His dissertation adviser, Robert Brandom, describes him as “truly brilliant, a deep and original philosopher.” Unpublished and Untenured, a Philosopher Inspired a Cult Following 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z However, agreeing with Mr Singer that objective ethical truths exist and imagining anyone, even a moral philosopher, has a monopoly on divining what these might be are not the same. How to live well 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z I decided I didn’t need a philosopher, anyway. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: I can get out of this speeding ticket, right? 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Born in Damascus and raised in Lebanon, Simone Fattal trained as a philosopher in Paris and Beirut before taking up ceramics. The Week in Arts: Martha Graham, ‘Ink’ and Let’s Eat Grandma 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z He was a bit of the homespun philosopher was my father. How a Mancunian taxi driver taught me the true meaning of friendship 2010-12-26T00:05:09Z Mr. Taylor, 84, is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading philosophers, and a thinker whose ideas have been influential in the humanities, social sciences and public affairs. Canadian Philosopher Wins $1 Million Prize 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z And Mr. O’Connell rises to the crucial challenge of convincingly drawing Berowne’s evolution from madcap joker to melancholy philosopher, who comes to understand that man cannot live by words alone. Theater Review: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost,’ at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Fest 2012-07-31T22:20:55Z And stylistically, the Capitol drawing follows a series of illustrations Chan made to accompany a new English translation of a children’s book by the terse philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Facing Violence With Brushes and Ballots 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z He brought up Mr. Kristol’s “intemperate” tweet, but noted that his old friend had recently come to the college for a conference about an essay by the political philosopher Leo Strauss. ‘Charge the Cockpit or You Die’: Behind an Incendiary Case for Trump 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z They say some philosopher said, ‘when effort meets chance, then there is luck.’ Psy Talks ‘Gangnam Style’ and New-Found Fame 2012-09-28T15:52:19Z Its bars have long been a refuge for famous writers, musicians, resistance leaders and philosophers. Silence shrouds London's deserted midnight party land 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Soutphommasane, a first generation Australian writer and philosopher of Laotian Chinese origin, warned against glib condemnation of racial prejudice. Adelaide festival 2013: week one 2013-03-05T12:39:38Z The philosopher stands clad in rags stitched together to form an impoverished cloak. Frieze Masters: a window to a secret world 2012-10-10T16:34:12Z The French philosopher Michel Serres has compared ubiquitous pop-culture images of mass death, like the mushroom cloud and Sept. 11, to pagan ritual voyages to the underworld, surmising that they serve some primal human need. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: A Tour of Atomic New Mexico 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Böhme’s ideas influenced many 19th-century poets and philosophers, as well as the spiritually esoteric movement known as Theosophy, of which Mondrian was a follower. Review: The Morbid Anatomy Museum Presents a View From the Subconscious 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Marías, the son of the philosopher Julián Marías, who was briefly imprisoned and then banned from teaching in Franco’s Spain, takes his role in the public square seriously. Javier Marias Finds Popularity on the Rise in Britain and the U.S. 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Looking to his past and sketching his future, it is intended as the magnum opus of a figure the composer Michael Gordon has called “the philosopher king of percussion music.” The ‘Philosopher King’ of Percussion Starts His Next Chapter 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z But then he’ll drop a reference to thinkers like Bruno Latour — a philosopher, sociologist and anthropologist known for his writings on social networks — or launch into a discussion of ripples in time. With Spiders and Space Dust, Tomás Saraceno Takes Off 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z He calls Mr. Lévy “a philosopher without an original idea but with excellent contacts.” Books of The Times: Throwing Mud and Calling It Beautiful 2011-01-11T22:06:40Z Mr. Peterson, 55, a University of Toronto psychology professor turned YouTube philosopher turned mystical father figure, has emerged as an influential thought leader. Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z The divide was personified by two Frenchmen: the rational voice of the philosopher Jacques Derrida alternating with the emotional music of Charles Aznavour. Dance Review: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet at the Joyce Theater 2012-05-23T21:55:51Z “It’s celebrating a female filmmaker, and Barbara as an actress, and Hannah Arendt herself — a philosopher in a traditionally male field,” said Barrett. Siff’s Women in Cinema festival opens 2013-01-18T23:37:47Z Over the years, philosophers have found more nuanced ways to express their disagreement. Perspective | The one point abortion rights activists need to keep making 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z Need for revolt … the French writer and philosopher Albert Camus. My hero: Albert Camus by David Constantine 2013-07-05T15:00:03Z They influenced Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr, the favorite philosophers of some recent presidents. Maurice S. Friedman, Biographer of Martin Buber, Dies at 90 2012-10-06T01:01:48Z He was the first Christian philosopher to tackle the mysteries of the Kabbalah. A Renaissance Murder Mystery 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The couple’s apartment, shared with a miniature Yorkshire terrier named Soren, after the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, is said to be overflowing with books. Chelsea Clinton, Living Up to the Family Name 2011-12-07T16:00:40Z The Scottish philosopher and writer Thomas Carlyle first referred to economics as a “dismal” scientific pursuit in the 19th century. ‘The Dismal Science’: a dark brew of angst and economics 2014-01-22T22:35:56Z My notes on it are a little dry, and a little hazy, and quite unscientific, but I am just a writer, not a scientist or philosopher. Punk, dance music and drugs 2013-05-20T00:00:00Z In fact, his father, a follower of the philosopher José Ortega y Gasset, had opposed Franco during the Spanish Civil War and was nearly executed afterward. Javier Marías, to Many the Greatest Living Spanish Novelist, Dies at 70 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z Green king … a statue of the Enlightenment philosopher David Hume on Edinburgh's High Street. The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters by Anthony Pagden – review 2013-07-24T11:19:42Z Harry, a paratrooper just returned from the war and the pivotal character in the novel, lets loose like a philosopher king from the beginning. 'In Sunlight and Shadow': Mismatched lovers in '40s Manhattan 2012-09-26T22:10:04Z Get Home finds him stumbling home from a club, pondering the meaning of it all: it paints him as quite the bar-room philosopher. Bastille – review 2013-03-13T13:37:18Z Morton White, a philosopher and historian of ideas whose innovative theory of “holistic pragmatism” showed the way toward a more socially engaged, interdisciplinary role for philosophy, died on May 27 in Skillman, N.J. Morton White, Philosopher of Holistic Pragmatism, Dies at 99 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z But some people have gone even further, with philosophers questioning the very foundations of an achievement-based society that lends itself to rampant burnout and depression. The anti-work movement in "Clerks," "Modern Times" & other films 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z It's the type of love that love expert and feminist philosopher bell hooks talks about in "All About Love." "When Harry Met Sally" is the perfect fall movie that we need now more than ever 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z With his high-domed forehead and amused smile, he looked remarkably like those other smiling philosophers, Voltaire and Bertrand Russell. Charles Rosen obituary 2012-12-10T18:13:31Z Where science and alchemy have failed, Hollywood is creating its own philosopher’s stone. Rogue One: the CGI resurrection of Peter Cushing is thrilling – but is it right? 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z It might also seem a bold career move for the screen’s reigning hipster philosopher to veer into a role in which he keeps his thoughts mostly to himself. Adam Driver Takes the Wheel 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z In recent years, however, as the country has modernized, it has also re-embraced its past and the ancient philosopher’s 2,500-year-old teachings. Dance in NYC This Week 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z For a book by a philosopher that makes a vibrant case for theory, “The Right to Sex” keeps returning to the reality of lived experience. ‘The Right to Sex’ Thinks Beyond the Parameters of Consent 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z "The 'new philosophers' are now extremely old," says Bruckner, who is 62. Pascal Bruckner: 'Happiness is a moment of grace' 2011-01-23T00:05:40Z Mr. Harari, an Israeli historian and philosopher, rose to prominence with the English translation of his 2014 best seller, “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.” You Can Read Yuval Noah Harari’s Book in Russian, Except for the Parts About Russia 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z And then he says that the values they want to promote are to be explained psychologically, in terms of the type of person that that philosopher is. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z He is widely beloved for his irreverent Snapchat account, and has been called an “Internet philosopher” by the Los Angeles Times. What Just Happened at the Video Music Awards? 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z With its openly bleeding heart and philosopher’s spirit, the odd and undeniably affecting “Ghostlove” explores ways in which we haunt ourselves. Hell House 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z The philosopher aside, “the idea of using your corpse to reflect your individuality is relatively recent,” writes Bess Lovejoy, the author of “Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses.” What’s That? You Want to be Buried How? 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Others, judging by the man’s bare feet and unkempt look, say he is probably a Cynic philosopher, perhaps Diogenes. Five Must-See Artworks at the Renovated Getty Villa 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z The German philosopher, Martin Heidegger, said: “Language is the house of being,” while his compatriot, Hans-Georg Gadamer, insisted: “Without language nothing exists.” How thoughts and speech shape our wellbeing | Gary John Bishop 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z “He just decided to let much more of his personality loose on Twitter,” said Vance of Musk, “and to embrace this role as part philosopher, part troll.” How Elon Musk became a new kind of celebrity 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z Why not contemplate it like a philosopher standing on the shore imagining the immensity of the grey sea? Turbine Hall's Sunflower Seeds: Does it matter if they're closed off? 2010-10-15T14:55:00Z In one story, the young narrator describes them this way: “Man-man was mad; George was stupid; Big Foot was a bully; Hat was an adventurer; Popo was a philosopher; and Morgan was our comedian.” What to Read Before Heading to the Caribbean 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z “One of Calder’s objects,” the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre wrote in 1946, “is like the sea and equally spellbinding: always beginning over again, always new.” When It Comes to Calder, the Same Piece Is Always Different 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Nietzsche has probably been more things to more people than any other philosopher. Two New Books Confront Nietzsche and His Ideas 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Always, he was a philosopher of black expressive form and an astute cultural analyst. Ralph Ellison’s Letters Reveal a Complex Philosopher of Black Expression 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z “No battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.” John Malkovich: ‘I am a constant source of embarrassment to myself’ 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z Radical Raging Against the Machine “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric,” the philosopher Theodor Adorno wrote in what became one of his most quoted lines. Music Review: Four Compositions by Luigi Nono at Frederick Loewe Theater 2012-02-28T23:18:50Z He was the country’s leading novelist, designer, philosopher and Ping-Pong trainer. 3 Books on North Korea and the Threat of Nuclear War 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z We no longer live in an age where female thinkers, writers, philosophers, academics, artists, theorists, activists or politicians are rare. Bidisha: I'm tired of being the token women 2010-04-22T21:00:00Z Its seven members include a former German president, high-ranking former ministers, historians and philosophers. Berlin museums, Jewish heirs in dispute over art 2014-01-15T15:31:05Z The philosopher was upset by mass production in general. | Snap Tonic 2010-10-25T15:39:00Z But few philosophers have wanted so keenly to be of use, according to a new biography, “Philosopher of the Heart,” by Clare Carlisle. The Life of a Philosopher for Whom Life Was the Main Question 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z When I ask how to do this, my friends become philosophers and say, “You need to find it within yourself.” For Best Hookup Results, Use Your Words, O.K.? 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z In juxtaposing Old and New Testament themes with portrayals of Greek philosophers, the painting strongly affirms a cultural affiliation with the Occidental tradition, as distinct from the tradition of the Ottoman invaders. Cultured Traveler: Romanian Church Murals Offer Colorful Lessons 2010-06-18T16:50:00Z He meant by the term an inner bisexuality of the kind Sigmund Freud and the Viennese philosopher Otto Weininger wrote about. ‘The Man Without Qualities’ Acquires a New Volume 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Renowned for landscapes in which ancient monuments and modern buildings were arranged in imaginary scenes called architectural capriccios, he was nicknamed “Robert des ruines” by the philosopher Denis Diderot. Revisiting Hubert Robert and His Romantic Ruins 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z McCarthy, 89, is famously private, but he’s hardly a recluse: He spends much of his time speaking to philosophers and physicists at the Santa Fe Institute, a research center where he serves as a trustee. In His New Books, Cormac McCarthy Gets Real 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Architects all want to be philosophers or artists now. The Ascension of Peter Zumthor 2011-03-13T05:00:20Z In an open letter, available online, philosopher and visiting professor at NYU Slavoj Žižek bemoans the potential loss to the academy, because it is in need of her “ironic, mocking, sardonic” language. A witch hunt or a quest for justice: An insider’s perspective on disgraced academic Avital Ronell 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Both have rich intellectual and literary histories, boasting a list of luminaries — writers, artists, actors and philosophers that include Ernest Hemingway, Alain Delon, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Pablo Picasso and Albert Camus. James Baldwin’s Paris 2014-01-17T21:44:03Z For Gioia, the pre-Socratic philosopher Pythagoras may be the most important and dire figure in his entire book. Review | A celebration of the outsiders and outcasts who have made music great 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Of the film, the French philosopher Michel Foucault wrote: "What Schroeter does with a face, a cheekbone, the lips, the expression of the eyes, is a multiplying and burgeoning of the body, an exultation." Werner Schroeter obituary 2010-04-22T17:34:00Z He is also revered as a non-conformist, home-spun philosopher whose nuggets of wisdom were sometimes as hard to follow as his dribbles on the field. New musical puts late Dutch great Johan Cruyff center stage 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z The accreting “the fact that” clauses seem to kick off a philosopher’s claim or a statement of cause and effect. Can One Sentence Capture All of Life? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z In this book, David Miller, a political philosopher, tackles the question of what a developed country owes to outsiders when imagining its immigration policies. As Travel Ban Takes Effect, 3 Books That Delve Into the Immigration Debate 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Even today, it’s a reflexive response of pundits, critics and television philosophers to claim that democracies, in particular, need collective symbols to unify them, as if we are children who need inspiring bedtime stories. Perspective | What to do when the Confederate statues come down? Leave the pedestals empty. 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z In some cases, the questions that preoccupy philosophers are identical to the questions of psychologists and so are amenable to straightforward scientific research. What We Know About Art and the Mind 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z “An Immense World” inevitably refers to the philosopher Thomas Nagel’s foundational essay on this struggle, “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” ‘An Immense World’ Is a Thrilling Tour of Nonhuman Perception 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z The Hay Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, bringing Nobel Prize-winning writers, philosophers, politicians and musicians to Hay-on-Wye to showcase their work and exchange ideas with an audience from all over Britain and beyond. Hay book fest marks 25th at "Woodstock of the mind" 2012-05-24T15:07:35Z In the drama “A Face in the Crowd,” he starred as Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes, a local jailbird and amateur singer who becomes a homespun philosopher on national television. Beloved actor Andy Griffith dies at 86 2012-07-03T16:45:00Z At breakfast we were seated next to a table of academics, all of them philosophers. The Art of Summer: The Words We Live By 2011-08-03T12:00:05Z It wasn’t until 1982 that the British government appointed a committee to recommend regulatory guidelines, headed by the moral philosopher Mary Warnock. Seven ways IVF changed the world – from Louise Brown to stem-cell research 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z I think his dance was more with the notion of history than it was with the writings of a German political philosopher. Adam McKay on the Veracity of “Vice” 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z And I think it was David Hume, the English philosopher—Scottish philosopher, I should say—who said that “reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions.” The Fallen Worlds of Philip Pullman 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z In a New York Times interview, Leaf said that Ferdinand’s aversion to violence merely manifested his “good taste and strength of character,” demonstrating that he was “just a superior soul, a philosopher.” Hitler banned it; Gandhi loved it: ‘The Story of Ferdinand,’ the book and, now, film 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z This approach sets us up nicely for Lear the mad philosopher of the later scenes. Theater Review: Frank Langella, Roaring at Defiance in ‘King Lear’ 2014-01-17T03:00:02Z But on closer inspection the Zen philosopher turned out to have anger issues, the extremist was seductively persuasive, and the Bible basher one groovy chick. Music Review: Vox Contemporary American Opera Lab at Skirball Center 2012-11-11T23:04:39Z There are physicists and philosophers who would correct me. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z There are records of the philosopher and statesman Cicero seeking just such panels to decorate his own home. British Museum reunites Roman marble panels split for 2,000 years 2013-03-10T19:27:13Z He summarizes his book’s primal subject better than a panel of gods and philosophers could: “The American working class, mopping up after itself.” Books of The Times: Watching a Once-Proud Piece of Detroit Disappear 2011-01-18T16:57:38Z A grandson of the political philosopher Sidney Hook, Mr. Goulian grew up in a household humming with high achievement. His Own Best Character 2011-05-18T20:55:46Z A philosopher of science and experienced deep-sea diver, Godfrey-Smith has rolled his obsessions into one book, weaving biology and philosophy into a dazzling pattern that looks a lot like the best of pop science. Exploring the origins of consciouness, cephalopod and human, with Peter Godfrey-Smith in 'Other Minds' 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z But I think that this play brings out the fact that there can be a conflict between the philosopher and the polity. Socrates Questions, a Contemporary Philosopher Answers 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Sullivan’s liberalism prevents him from directly endorsing Plato’s prescription for governance by “philosopher kings” as a means of preventing rule by tyrannous demagogues. Andrew Sullivan is wrong again: His mainstream liberalism has become scarily anti-democratic 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z “Life is suffering!” a schoolteacher enamored with the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche instructs young Hugo, and so, a nihilistic path is set. Pointless Theatre Company’s ‘Hugo Ball’ is eye-catching mayhem 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z When the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard pronounced the miniature to be "one of the refuges of greatness", clearly it was our own dinky era that he was anticipating. Big on littleness 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z Like Voltaire and Diderot, who frequently feature in his writing, Bruckner writes across a variety of forms and genres, as a philosopher, a polemicist, an essayist and a novelist. Pascal Bruckner: 'Happiness is a moment of grace' 2011-01-23T00:05:40Z He was familiar with philosophers Michel Foucault and Herbert Marcuse, but also with smash-mouth Texas football and California surfing, which gave him a variety of arrows in his polemical quiver. Review | How Dave Hickey became one of the most influential art critics in America 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z In Hamburg, the collection was used by, among others, the philosopher Ernst Cassirer and the art historian Erwin Panofsky, whose interdisciplinary approach shaped a generation of scholarship in their fields. Warburg Institute Threatened by Funding Woes 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Pliny the Elder — naturalist, philosopher, warrior and all-around sage of the early Roman Empire — plays an unlikely role in “Placebo,” the new play by Melissa James Gibson that opened on Monday at Playwrights Horizons. Review: ‘Placebo,’ With Carrie Coon, Opens at Playwrights Horizons 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z But let’s give some love to the philosophers as they take up the work of immortal intellectuals. Why Michael Eric Dyson Would Demote ‘Heart of Darkness’ From the Canon 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Vile is a philosopher in search of philosophy, happy to keep looking. Kurt Vile, Indie Rock’s Charming Riddle 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z The “Friday Night at the Meaningful Movies” series returns with the 2013 documentary “American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs,” about the Chinese-American philosopher, writer and activist, at 7 p.m. Godard’s ‘Goodbye to Language, race and more 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The melding of pleasure and horror it can elicit would have delighted Georges Bataille, the radical philosopher for whom “truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.” Why the Whitney’s Humanist, Pro-Diversity Biennial Is a Revelation 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z He revisits the actual thinkers appropriated by TED bloviators, from the philosopher Marshall McLuhan to the French historian René Girard to the novelist Ayn Rand. ‘What Tech Calls Thinking’ Might Really Be Something Else 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z But now they are also philosophers, political sages, conspiracy-mongers, grumps, rebels and outcasts. There’s No Dave Chappelle or Hannah Gadsby Without Mort Sahl 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z He’s a better adventurer than he is a philosopher. Books of The Times: A Collector of Road Trips, Just Passing Through 2010-02-17T23:31:00Z Well, the Greeks were philosophers and poets and dreamers and seekers of truth who spent much of their time on this planet trying to unearth the meaning of life, whereas the Vikings were illiterate morons. Valhalla Rising v Clash of the Titans: there will be blood 2010-03-18T22:05:00Z And Ayn Rand is the preeminent philosopher of teenagers. Tom Frank interviews Barbara Ehrenreich: “You’re the anti-Ayn Rand” 2014-04-06T11:00:00Z The philosopher Herbert Spencer “was one of the most prominent intellectuals of the second half of the 19th century, and his ideas, however harsh they may seem today, were widely discussed,” Mr. Wade writes. Nicholas Wade’s ‘A Troublesome Inheritance’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z A philosopher — Jacques Derrida, say, here seen crossing Houston Street a few years before his death — might wax eloquent on the dialectical interpenetration of presence and absence. Review: In ‘Cameraperson,’ a Found Poem Filtered Through an Intent Eye 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z “And as philosophers, our job is to convince them that the human brain is different than human consciousness.” A Philosopher and a Scientist Share a Bench 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z His world bears similarities to Dr. Seuss as much as it does the Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci, bringing utopia and nonsense together. Famous in Italy, Rodari Reaches U.S. Shores With ‘Telephone Tales’ 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z As José Martí, Cuba’s talismanic national poet and philosopher once wrote, “In a time of crisis, the peoples of the world must rush to get to know each other.” Havana’s Symphony of Sound 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z On Friday the festival lineup included "The Oath of Tobruk," a highly personal insiders' account of the uprising by writer and philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, who was accompanied to a photo call by masked Libyan fighters. Breeze of Arab Spring felt on Cannes red carpet 2012-05-25T19:54:11Z In the 18th century, philosophers described the combination of excitement and terror as sublime. An alien beauty to Helen Rae's female subjects at the Good Luck Gallery 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z As it gained in popularity, the radio had its critics, perhaps none more resounding than the Swiss philosopher Max Picard, who was born in the late nineteenth century. Kinds of Silence 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z “I was punched in the face by a French philosopher.” William Boyd’s Madcap Burlesque Revisits the Summer of 1968 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Goldstein showcases the continuing relevance of a classic philosopher in amusing ways and offers a more straightforward discussion of Platonic philosophy. 50 notable works of nonfiction The letters of the British novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch contained more yearning than most. Review: ‘Living on Paper,’ Seven Decades of Letters From Iris Murdoch 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z Schopenhauer was a forefather of a school of thought that philosophers loosely call “pessimism.” Should We Be More Pessimistic? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Religious leaders, gurus, shamans, scientists, philosophers, waitresses and cab drivers flash by, giving quotable answers to Mr. Nygard’s big questions: Why do we exist? | 'The Nature of Existence': Asking Big Questions 2010-06-18T00:02:00Z The New Yorker’s Talk of the Town section, meanwhile, found him seeming “unduly cheerful” for a philosopher of the absurd, a notion Camus gently rejected. Albert Camus, Stranger in a Strange Land: New York 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z It was very unusual because, first of all, it treated Nietzsche as a philosopher. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z A bronze statue of this French Renaissance philosopher — balding, with a beatific smile, cape draped over his shoulders, slender legs crossed — sits on the Rue des Ecoles in Paris, opposite the Sorbonne. Reclaiming the Age-Old Art of Getting Lost 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The rejection of religious faith, he said, was the start of his career as a philosopher. Antony Flew, 87, Philosopher and Ex-Atheist, Dies 2010-04-17T02:21:00Z In my yearning to widen my knowledge of religious experience and ideas, I studied saints, mystics, philosophers, writers on a search for spiritual enlightenment. Is Any Topic Off Limits When You Write for Teenagers? Maybe Just One 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z In Kierkegaard’s “Either/Or,” the philosopher told us what we already sense — that we’ll have regrets either way. In Elif Batuman’s ‘Either/Or,’ a Witty and Perceptive Young Woman Returns 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Instead of “worldview diversification” there’s a remarkable intellectual homogeneity; the dominant voices belong to white male philosophers at Oxford. Effective Altruism Warned of Risks. Did It Also Incentivize Them? 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z The painting of the bald figure bears a citation of the pre-Socratic philosopher Parmenides. Hunter Biden: Emotionally Honest, Generically Smooth 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Back in the 1950s, when the philosopher Alvin Plantinga was getting his start, there were scarcely more religious believers in academic philosophy departments. Alvin Plantinga?s New Book on God and Science 2011-12-13T22:30:17Z Guy Davenport once described Wittgenstein as someone who “thought himself into subtler and deeper problems,” and “Private Notebooks” shows the philosopher wrestling with this process in real time. Wittgenstein’s ‘Private Notebooks’ Shed Some Light on an Enigmatic Genius 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z As such, it is an accessible introduction to the work of a philosopher who would not regard being described as “accessible” as an insult. How to live well 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Previous winners include the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, the American physician and public health advocate Paul Farmer, and the Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Peter Singer Wins $1 Million Berggruen Prize 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Taylor, at times, turned Burton into a philosopher. Passion for the Ages: Burton's Love Letters to Taylor 2010-06-02T19:15:00Z She was a woman of extraordinary intellectual gifts at a time when there was essentially no such thing as a female philosopher, or even a female academic. Is Donald Trump a new Hitler? Hannah Arendt might argue that they’re closer than you think 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Many were queasy when George Bush cheesily described Jesus as his favourite philosopher, but at least he knew his market. Paul Ryan's faith in Ayn Rand is a political problem for Romney 2012-08-13T15:46:04Z And he quotes the eternally helpful words of philosophers like Seneca and Aristotle. Theater Review: Martin Moran’s ‘All the Rage’ at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2013-01-31T03:00:51Z Something like this once happened between the philosopher Michel Foucault and the Swiss filmmaker Daniel Schmidt. Perspective | Conversation over video is maddening. So take a lesson from literature’s great dialogue writers. 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z An elegant and witty writer converses with philosophers and cosmologists who ponder why there is something rather than nothing. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z Wood’s latest novel, “Upstate,” which follows a deeply depressed philosopher, dramatizes these questions about the relationships between analysis and fulfillment. In ‘Serious Noticing,’ James Wood Closely Reads Chekhov and Others — Including Himself 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The 18th-century philosopher considered women incapable of playing a role in public life. ArtsBeat: Rousseaumania Runs Rampant in France 2012-06-29T17:59:36Z The discovery caused a sensation amongst European naturalists, philosophers and theologians because it seemed to challenge all natural laws - animals cannot regenerate themselves. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Author Rebecca Stott on 'Darwin's Ghosts' 2012-08-08T16:44:34Z “I’m still proud to call myself a philosopher, but I’m not their kind of philosopher, that’s for sure,” he said. Daniel Dennett, Author of ‘Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking’ 2013-04-29T21:49:23Z Though born in Geneva, the autobiographer and philosopher grew up in Annecy, where he found abundant material — romantic, sexual, scandalous — for his celebrated “Confessions.” The French Alps Sans Skis 2011-02-25T21:55:11Z Vidal’s target was Paul Ryan’s idol and the idol of so many modern conservatives: the trash novelist and crackpot philosopher Ayn Rand, whom Vidal quotes thusly: Media, morality and the neighbor’s cow: When did Ayn Rand become the Republican Party’s bible? 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z She includes quotations from existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre and political philosopher Frantz Fanon, who analyzed poverty and racism, and ponders issues as current as yesterday’s newspaper and today’s blog post. In the galleries: 12 modern Madonnas 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z Born in 1949, the Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic grew up under Tito in the former Yugoslavia, where suspicions of dissidence consigned him to academic backwaters. Slavoj Žižek: 'Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots' 2012-06-10T19:00:05Z They constructed a temple “To Philosophy,” and hauled in busts of famous philosophers like Voltaire. Don’t stop believin’: Do atheists need a church? 2013-04-28T16:00:00Z Their fans, true philosophers, spend years discussing the optimum version of Quodlibet for Tenderfeet. Readers recommend: songs about philosophers – results 2012-11-22T14:30:00Z This fundamental question was one of many addressed by the 19th-century philosopher and psychologist William James, oldest brother of the novelist Henry. He Questioned the Meaning of Life. William James Answered. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Since ancient times, physicians and philosophers have explored the power of music in human life. How Stoicism influenced music from the French Renaissance to Pink Floyd 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z Amleth, as he is called, is no student philosopher, temporizing over the nuances of being and nonbeing. ‘The Northman’ Review: Danish Premodern 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z A silver-haired aristocrat thunders through the palatial offices of the French foreign ministry quoting Greek philosophers and demanding his speech-writers pepper their efforts with poetry. Quai d'Orsay's comic-book hero tickles French fancy 2011-01-28T18:38:30Z Sweat, Blood and Philosophy to the Rhythms of the Sweet Science Published: October 21, 2010 Pugilists and philosophers of all kinds converge in Frederick Wiseman’s mesmerizing documentary “Boxing Gym.” | 'Boxing Gym': Sweat, Blood and Philosophy to the Rhythms of the Sweet Science 2010-10-21T23:08:00Z But I have a philosopher friend and she was saying that she liked how I'm embracing the darkness from a psychological and a sociological point of view. Lustmord: ambient's dark star 2013-03-16T03:08:20Z In its searching, intimate conversations with poets, scientists, philosophers, faith leaders and more, “On Being” makes space for the timeless amid the up-to-the-minute urgency of news, traffic and weather. ‘On Being’ Is Leaving Public Radio for a Podcast Future 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z It brings to mind the philosopher Hannah Arendt’s “Report on the Banality of Evil,” where many people performing the killing said they were just following orders. Rachel Weisz on the Frightening Reality of Holocaust Denial 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z As a choreographer, he drew on ideas from modern artists and Eastern philosophers, using "chance procedures" — say, a roll of the dice — to establish the order of steps and the placement of dancers on stage. Merce Cunningham Dance Company to visit Seattle on final Legacy Tour 2010-12-15T21:01:05Z The man was Socrates, the philosopher from ancient Athens and arguably the true father of western thought. Socrates ? a man for our times 2010-10-17T19:30:00Z “Purity of heart is to will one thing,” wrote the early 19th-century Danish philosopher and poet Soren Kierkegaard, his one willed thing being knowledge of — meaning faith in — an absolute, sometimes called God. The Danish Experience: Art That Marries Real and Ideal 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z It’s a sentiment that philosophers are still mulling over today, and one that Patrick Stokes, the author of “Digital Souls,” sees as directly related to digital remains. What Should Happen to Our Data When We Die? 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z All of this is done without class or context – he is a philosopher, all right? – and without seemingly much knowledge of actual feminism. The Second Sexism is just victim-envy 2012-05-16T19:00:05Z Donald Hall turned to a philosopher, and his two-line "Poem beginning with a line of Wittgenstein" is an extraordinarily neat upending of the reader's expectations. Poster poems: Licence to steal 2013-02-08T11:22:08Z Your budget appears to reflect the values of your favourite philosopher, Ayn Rand, rather than the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Paul Ryan's faith in Ayn Rand is a political problem for Romney 2012-08-13T15:46:04Z The famed Freudian French philosopher Jean-Francois Lyotard wrote an essay about this musical exploration of emotions to which a voice can be put to use in eight pregnant minutes. The L.A. music scene as seen through Berio's Sequenzas 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Of course, it’s one of those German words that captures a vague but vast concept, as detailed by the German philosopher Georg Simmel, who wrote one of the earliest analyses of fashion. The return of the going-out top 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z Here are the views of an art critic, art philosopher and some owners of Harris's artwork. Should you feel guilty owning Rolf's art? 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z The philosopher Bruno Latour has defined the modern person as “someone who believes that others believe.” A Roving History of Mortals Considered Gods 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z One might apply the words of the great philosopher Groucho Marx: “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” Is Physics on the Wrong Track? And Other Letters to the Editor 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Bogost is a game designer, philosopher and author most recently of the new book Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits. How to Turn Life’s Challenges Into Play 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z “The names of ancient philosophers, the colors of soccer teams, the words of the first astronaut who went to the moon.” In ‘Labyrinth,’ a Musician With Amnesia Loses Life’s Rhythm 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Today, the most famous of these 18th-century critics is Denis Diderot, the Enlightenment philosopher who also wrote passionately about his loves and hates in contemporary art. For critics, it's better to be interesting than right 2011-01-28T13:02:56Z Huxley is buried in England, and years after his death, writers and philosophers still look to his unusual career for inspiration. Happy birthday, Aldous Huxley! 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z Boehm, an Israeli political philosopher who teaches at the New School for Social Research in New York, is also hopeful. Finding New Ways to Write About and Grapple With Israel 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Rosy-skinned gladiators, wrestlers and soldiers in togas and occasionally helmets prevail here, along with bearded philosophers. A Sumptuous Surrealist Moment in Manhattan 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Thus from his "impersonally remote research", there emerges the profound vision of a moral philosopher. Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death by Otto Dov Kulka – review 2013-01-25T07:00:02Z "You don't have to be a full-time philosopher to like hearing ideas and experiencing argument," he said. Malmesbury bids to become UK's first 'philosophy town' 2010-10-17T23:01:00Z In conversations, he calls its philosopher subject his “compañero” — friend — and said he felt a special bond to the smiling man because of his hands, worn by years of labor. The Prado Museum’s Unsung Workers Step Into the Limelight 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z But atheists have matched them bone for bone, especially the bones of their rationalist philosophers. Dust to dust 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z The one principle that is inarguably shared by these philosophers is quite simple: they wish to retrieve philosophy from a tendency initiated, or at least made unavoidable, by the work of Immanuel Kant. HP Lovecraft, pulp philosopher 2013-04-11T20:22:00Z “An appreciation of the transience of things, and the concern to rescue them for eternity, is one of the strongest impulses in allegory,” the philosopher Walter Benjamin wrote. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Faust, usually presented as an old philosopher who feels he has wasted his life with fruitless scholarship, is here a middle-aged scientist, first seen wearing a sensible three-piece brown suit. Music Review: A Review of the Metropolitan Opera?s ?Faust? 2011-11-30T13:23:05Z After talking to Richard Swinburne, a British philosopher who believes in God, you wandered down a street "engulfed by a diffuse sense of contentment." Q. & A.: Jim Holt on Why the World Exists 2012-07-18T14:09:41Z But philosophers no longer have a corner on the love-and-inequality connection. America’s miserable economy may be ruining your love life 2014-02-16T01:00:00Z A philosopher, writer, television personality and filmmaker, Lévy is a quintessentially French invention in a country that fetes its public intellectuals like pop stars. A Polarizing French Philosopher Chooses War Zones Over Salons 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z If you think your life is hard, pity Seneca, the Roman philosopher forced to commit ritual suicide by bleeding himself to death. The 10 best self-help gurus 2011-01-02T00:05:29Z Yet, for many philosophers of the postwar era, too much order seemed just as dangerous as too little. The Perils of Order, Taken to the Extreme 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Later he emerged as a kind of philosopher king of the postwar nuclear era, publicly opposing the development of the hydrogen bomb and becoming a symbol both of America’s technological genius and of its conscience. Behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ a Prizewinning Biography 25 Years in the Making 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z A small side table holds busts of Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, Freud, and the eleventh-century Persian philosopher Avicenna. The Sage of Yale Law 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Kalanithi was a doctor by training and a philosopher by temperament, the type of person who, inspired by Aldous Huxley, used his university-admissions essay to argue that happiness was not the point of life. As he lay dying 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z I decided this argument would appeal to Immanuel Kant, the 18th-century German philosopher who is still considered the go-to guy on matters of moral reasoning. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: I can get out of this speeding ticket, right? 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z To Begin the World Again — The Life of Thomas Paine Ian Ruskin portrays the Revolutionary War-era philosopher and pamphleteer in this solo show. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Dec. 3-10: 'Hamilton's' Leslie Odom, Jr. and more 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z There were lives of poets, lives of philosophers; there were rollicking lives of depraved rulers of the Roman Empire. How Giorgio Vasari Invented Art History as We Know It 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The billionaire investor and oracular philosopher Warren Buffett echoes the point: My luck was accentuated by my living in a market system that sometimes produces distorted results, though overall it serves our country well. How Fox News created a new culture of idiots 2012-10-28T12:00:00Z There's no doubt that the eponymous man is Greene, but then there is Iyer's philosopher father, who might lay at least some claim. 'The Man Within My Head': Pico Iyer's unlikely muse 2012-01-18T21:16:08Z He means Giordano Bruno, an astronomer and philosopher executed in 1600 by the Inquisition for heretical beliefs. Galileo reaches for the stars 2012-09-26T15:02:28Z His lively engagement with the philosopher is palpable in the script, too, where he calls for the play to “be performed fluidly, boisterously.” Review: In ‘Socrates,’ a Brainy Tribute to a Prickly Provocateur 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z From the start, Rogers comes off as a sage, a virtual philosopher with a tone appropriate for children but with ideas of a revelatory depth for all ages. The Wondrous Heroism of Mr. Rogers in “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z None of the characters speak like Matthew McConaughey’s weary philosopher, who was so adored in season one. Here's What to Expect From 'True Detective' Season 2 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Naomi Baron, American University professor emerita of world languages and cultures, says her husband, a philosopher, gets angry at having to scroll through many references to the APA before landing on the American Philosophical Association. One NRA fights for guns. One for restaurants. Yes, D.C. has abbreviation overload. 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Besides the players, we also meet Galileo and various Italian, French, Spanish and English monarchs, popes and cardinals, philosophers and artists, rogues and explorers. Review: In Álvaro Enrigue’s ‘Sudden Death,’ a Farcical Duel With Topspin 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z He combines his raffish erudition with accounts of traveling to tap the minds of cosmologists, theologians, particle physicists, philosophers, mystics and others. Books of The Times: ‘Why Does the World Exist?’ by Jim Holt 2012-08-02T18:37:46Z The show takes its title from a book by the French philosopher Michel Foucault, who describes the emergence of a discourse about something that is being societally suppressed. Kehinde Wiley’s New Exhibition Is a Chapel of Mourning 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z The acclaimed moral philosopher turns her attention to our current political divide and the role of emotion in fueling so much of it. New & Noteworthy 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Cyrano de Bergerac is, we are told, a “soldier, poet, philosopher, magician, playwright … and the best swordsman in Paris.” Why Is ‘Cyrano’ Still So Potent? Ask Anyone Who’s Loved at All. 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Eric Idle thumbed his nose at philosophers in general as Monty Python's Philosophers Song portrayed the highest echelon of thinkers as a gang of sodden old boozers. Readers recommend: songs about philosophers – results 2012-11-22T14:30:00Z The most glamorous philosopher of the Italian Renaissance, and in many respects the most contemporary, died in the autumn of 1494. A Renaissance Murder Mystery 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z It was part of the 19th century’s New Thought movement, pushed by philosophers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson. Covid brought ‘manifestation’ back. But you can’t simply will your way to a better life. 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Raffles, who is more philosopher than provocateur, reserves his most incendiary ideas for weightier subjects. Books of The Times: The Weird, Wide World of Bugs in Hugh Raffles?s ?Insectopedia? 2010-03-24T23:08:00Z I do publish more philosophy books than anyone else, but I have to take expert advice from philosophers on whether the stuff is good. From pop star to chiropractor: musicians' post-musical careers 2010-09-23T21:29:00Z I know Nussbaum is highly regarded, but if she were a man, she’d take her rightful place as one of the greatest philosophers and thinkers in the last half-century. Why Michael Eric Dyson Would Demote ‘Heart of Darkness’ From the Canon 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Walter Benjamin, the German Jewish philosopher, essayist and cultural critic, spent the better part of his professional life planning for what he described to his friend Bertolt Brecht as “the demolition of Heidegger.” The Men Who Reinvented Philosophy for Turbulent Times 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z She remembers her ex-husband as a philosopher, a thinker, a writer of not only words but also music. A stranger e-mailed saying he planned to kill himself. What was I supposed to do? 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Once we follow the thought of these ancient philosophers we will see more clearly what should distinguish right and wrong in ethics and politics. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z She studied botany and ornithology, and established a salon to support philosophers, including Voltaire. Inside France's $100 Million Palace Pompadour, A Royal Chateau Restored By A Press-Shy Philanthropist 2013-03-28T11:00:00Z But underneath, in the inner monologues, they’re like poets or philosophers speaking. ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: James Franco on Adapting Novels and Multitasking 2013-05-21T19:42:37Z Nevertheless, plenty of songs about philosophers and philosophy turned up this week. Readers recommend: songs about philosophers – results 2012-11-22T14:30:00Z These essays by the late philosopher, who in 1998 predicted the coming of a Trump-like presidency, consider populism, democracy, economic inequality, climate change and more. Newly Published, From the California Desert to Capitol Hill 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z Says Felicia Nimue Ackerman, an ethical philosopher at Brown University: "Many seriously ill people find the 'morbid phase' of their lives well worth prolonging." Amour: how can we embrace a film that is so clearly an advert for euthanasia? 2013-02-28T12:35:58Z "He's a 'yes' man if I ever saw one," Johannessen said of the Greek philosopher. Vashon Great Books club one of oldest in U.S. 2011-10-10T15:48:57Z Mr. Trawny suggests Heidegger may have wanted to show how a great philosopher “can go astray.” Heidegger’s Notebooks Renew Focus on Anti-Semitism 2014-03-30T21:44:42Z As Keynes famously put it, The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. We’ve been brainwashed 2012-06-14T17:21:00Z Gates introduces Davis as a living legend, philosopher, feminist and civil rights activist, as well as a "tireless advocate for social justice, crisscrossing the globe to write and speak on behalf of the oppressed." Angela Davis shows us why "Finding Your Roots" complicates and strengthens the American story 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z So what is it about this scruffy philosopher, adopted as a pup by his race-car-driving Seattle master, that so captivates readers? Garth Stein's 'The Art of Racing in the Rain' to be staged at Book-It 2012-04-12T20:17:04Z As the French philosopher Raymond Aron astutely noted, human rights, as a political philosophy, is based on a notion of purity. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z James began these books in 1911, when was 68 and grieving the recent death of his brother, the philosopher William James. Review: A Look Into the Life of Henry James, in His Own Unsimple Words 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z It’s a philosopher’s answer if ever I heard one, and Mr. Quinn, 28, is actually at work on a philosophy book. Neighborhood Cheer: Big TVs and Flowing Taps 2010-12-23T22:35:49Z Likewise, Critchley is what one might call a “working-class philosopher,” by which I mean he sees philosophy as a proletarian concern rather than an elite activity to be practiced in ivory towers. Simon Critchley on football, philosophy and his new book 'What We Think About When We Think About Soccer' 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z In "Hegel's Holiday," a painting of a glass of water balanced atop an umbrella, Magritte pays tribute to German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's concept of dualism - of mind and nature, subject and object. 'This is not a pipe': Magritte's 'Treachery of Images' beguiles Paris 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z It is packed with gunfights, kidnappings, sex and drugs but delivered in dense prose that refers to obscure scholarly texts and name-checks philosophers like Sartre, Voltaire, de Beauvoir, Fanon and Rousseau. He Writes Unreliable Narrators Because He Is One, Too 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z People die and disappear a lot in his books, and his adolescent characters spend a lot of time channeling their inner philosophers, trying to make sense of love and suffering. In John Green’s ‘Turtles All the Way Down,’ a Teenager’s Mind Is at War With Itself 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z He enthuses about initiatives such as the walking route – professional philosophers will walk alongside participants or meet them in the pub for a debate at the end of the day. Malmesbury bids to become UK's first 'philosophy town' 2010-10-17T23:01:00Z “It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction,” the French philosopher Simone Weil wrote, explaining why we “cannot take a single step towards heaven.” Monolith Mania Comes to Chelsea 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z As a philosopher named Boots once said, “Dat’s all.” Disney?s ?Newsies the Musical? Comes to Broadway 2012-03-02T18:00:09Z Wrestling with despair, his “philosopher” self takes over. Lou Sullivan’s Diaries Are a Radical Testament to Trans Happiness 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Something for the lawyers and the musicologists and maybe the philosophers. Taylor Swift Remade ‘Fearless’ as ‘Taylor’s Version.’ Let’s Discuss. 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z If you're of an optimistic bent, hopeful that life will offer up moments of wonder and delight, then Rowlands is your kind – my kind – of philosopher. Running With the Pack by Mark Rowlands; Running Like a Girl by Alexandra Heminsley – review 2013-03-17T00:05:32Z Per 17th century philosopher Descartes, the body is a machine; it’s the soul that makes us human. David Bowie, Elvis and “Blade Runner”: A fan theory to end all fan theories 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z A popular quote often misattributed to Aristotle has the ancient philosopher identifying the defining characteristic of intelligence as the “ability to entertain a thought without accepting it.” No, Daryl Hall did not “destroy” me: The right-wing social media mob’s “social justice warrior” narrative couldn’t be more ridiculous 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z “I think deep down inside he really isn’t a friend of science,” Michael Ruse, a philosopher of science at Florida State University, said of Mr. Plantinga. Alvin Plantinga?s New Book on God and Science 2011-12-13T22:30:17Z The philosopher Ludwik Fleck once wrote, “ ‘To see’ means to recreate, at a suitable moment, a picture created by the mental collective to which one belongs.” Nicholas Wade’s ‘A Troublesome Inheritance’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z But all things considered, the philosopher appeared in ebullient form. Pascal Bruckner: 'Happiness is a moment of grace' 2011-01-23T00:05:40Z For the next 12 hours, 59 other philosophers held forth in 20-minute bursts at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy on the Upper East Side and its next-door neighbor, the Ukrainian Institute of America. ‘A Night of Philosophy,’ 12 Hours of a Mental Marathon 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z The winner of last year’s Berggruen Prize was the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor. Onora O’Neill Wins $1 Million Berggruen Prize for Philosophy 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z It follows an ethos composed in the mind of the Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner in the early 1920s, and the tenets are fairly simple: There can be no synthetic chemicals or mechanical irrigation. The Italian Winemakers’ Cult 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z During the second half of the 19th century he was arguably the best-known modern philosopher since Hegel, whom he despised. Review | ‘On the Suffering of the World’ sounds depressing, but perhaps it is a call to action, too 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Her mother owned a small department store, and her father was a philosopher and gentleman of leisure who broke in horses and collected guns. T Magazine: A Fine Mess 2012-11-30T18:26:48Z A voice, which I recognize as the voice of the dead philosopher Alan Watts, tells me to “put myself into other people.” Ayahuasca, meditation and activism: On cultivating the mindful politics of love 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z The dorm room philosopher that still lives in my brain has been thinking a lot about iPhones lately. Perspective | Joshua Abrams and Natural Information Society — beautiful music, ugly times 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z A good teacher, a philosopher and a very happy cook, he studied at L’Institut Pasteur in Paris, and was an expert in nutrition and the medical value of food. The best cookbooks of all time, as chosen by the experts 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z A legal, political and cultural history of free speech, via figures like Ida B. Wells, the Athenian orator Demosthenes and the Persian philosopher Al-Razi. Newly Published, From Quincy Troupe to Art Censorship 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z The way science works – with theories that are tested against evidence, through experiment – was not the invention of one great philosopher. Higgs boson: the human urge to visualise the particle is irresistible 2012-07-06T13:00:02Z By the end of her life, though remaining remarkably youthful looking, she had even become something of a philosopher about age and its indignities. | 1941-2012: Nora Ephron, Essayist, Screenwriter and Director, Dies at 71 2012-06-27T02:01:02Z Boynton and other scientists and philosophers will host small intimate discussions in a boat on the lake. Guerilla scientists infiltrate Secret Garden Party 2010-07-23T17:58:00Z The question of whether or not human beings possess free will has kept philosophers out of mischief for millennia. The Adjustment Bureau's will won't be done 2011-03-07T10:57:44Z Dr. Staley agreed, referring to the German philosopher and archivist Walter Benjamin, who described the “aura” and transcendent “authenticity” of a manuscript. Texas Monthly: Long at Helm, U.T. Collector Leaves Legacy With His Exit 2013-08-31T22:42:05Z But Tim Blake Nelson’s new play attempts to probe the mind and biography of one of the most controversial philosophers of the ancient world. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z People who know Benjamin as a heady Frankfurt-school philosopher driven to suicide by the Nazis might not know his lively, cannabis-curious side. Aura Rosenberg’s Seriously Playful Art of Collaboration 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Stand-up comics are the new social critics or philosopher kings and queens. Bernie vs. “The Bachelorette”: When reality and “reality” collide on TV 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z He wasn't a cultured man, but he implicitly grasped the essential codes of Stoic philosophers such as Epictetus or Marcus Aurelius. Clive Dunn in Dad's Army: stoicism, charm and furtive sausages 2012-11-07T18:38:12Z Every year philosophers, social activists, clerics, economists and academics from many nations gather in Fes to debate the headline issues of our time. The Fes festival resonates in the real world 2012-06-26T07:30:02Z Suzie adds that it was Berkeley, the philosopher not the city, who suggested “a vision of the world in which experience itself was but a thin film.” Theater Review: Richard Foreman’s ‘Old-Fashioned Prostitutes’ 2013-05-08T02:00:01Z De Botton’s musings, however, stray deep into paternalistic waters — and the philosopher appears too admiring of religion’s moral absolutism. Don’t stop believin’: Do atheists need a church? 2013-04-28T16:00:00Z The ensemble also notably includes James Dreyfus as that destructively optimistic philosopher Pangloss and Jackie Clune as a garrulous, much tried old woman whose storytelling excesses mirror those of the show itself. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Stripped of Illusions, but Still Glittering and Gay 2014-01-23T17:10:33Z He said it was sheer obstinacy that led him to create his first piece on Kierkegaard, a show where he played the philosopher, in 2003. Danish philosopher's tough ideas adapted for kids 2013-05-04T06:36:08Z It is this remarkable story that is unblushingly told in a documentary both directed by, and starring, the 63-year-old philosopher. Lévy's Libya: a philosopher's phone call to arms against Gaddafi 2012-05-25T15:00:05Z As one of liberalism’s canonical philosophers, John Stuart Mill also invoked the necessity of “paternal despotism” in Britain’s colonies because “a people of savages should be taught obedience.” Where Have All the Liberals Gone? 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z The British philosopher A. J. Ayer once wrote that James “was in frequent, if friendly, dispute” with certain peers. In Praise of William James 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z These are questions that have concerned philosophers and thinkers dating back to the Enlightenment, not least because boredom occupies territory that overlaps with capital letter concepts like Being and Time. One big yawn: boredom is not just a state of mind 2011-07-16T23:05:46Z There is serious talk of the Bostrom hypothesis, a theory about reality devised by a real-life Oxford philosopher whose work encompasses theoretical physics, computational neuroscience and artificial intelligence. ‘The Anomaly,’ Part Airplane Thriller and Part Exploration of Reality, Fate and Free Will 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z She also explained the show’s title, which is taken from the writings of the Greek philosopher Nikos Kazantzakis, who saw life as a “luminous interval.” Inside Art: Guggenheim Defends Show of Trustee?s Art 2010-12-16T22:51:20Z She read about Jewish women philosophers in Alexandria. Did Jesus Ever Tie the Knot? A New Novel Considers the Question 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Abigail is more interested in the moral philosopher in Keynes than in the economist. John Maynard Keynes Can’t Save You Now 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z The bots were programmed with material extracted from a famous 1970s debate between the linguist Noam Chomsky and the philosopher Michel Foucault. No actors. Just robots. Call this a play? 2011-01-28T12:08:12Z So for Dennett, computers consisting of layer on layer of mindless programs can indeed achieve consciousness, at least in the very restricted sense in which philosophers – and neuroscientists – use that multidimensional word. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C Dennett – review 2013-05-15T06:00:03Z A lot of these guys were marginalised – ie imprisoned – as "incorrect philosophers" in the Soviet era, but now they have been rehabilitated and rewarded with statues outside space museums. Last night's TV 2011-04-11T08:33:13Z In 1656, this poet and natural philosopher published A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding, and Life, a work that prefigured Rousseau’s Confessions. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Various philosophers have argued that the self is less coherent than we think it should be. A New Theory of Distraction 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Life, the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard once said, can be understood only backward, but it must be lived forward. Review: In ‘The Rehearsal,’ All the World Is Staged 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Wolfe traces its modern forms back to the 18th-century philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment he helped inspire. ‘At Home in Exile,’ on the Jewish Diaspora, by Alan Wolfe 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z Because, she said, Pisces are spiritual healers and emotional philosophers. Venture Capital Is Putting Its Money Into Astrology 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z The philosopher Slavoj Zizek suggests that the opera is more a continuation and deepening of the themes of Mozart’s career than a divergence or regression from them. Mozart’s Opera ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at the Met 2012-11-09T23:06:30Z Take, for example, Rudolf Steiner — the Austrian scientist and philosopher launched his Weleda skin care range in the 1920s using flowers, herbs and other extracts cultivated on biodynamic farms. Direct From Europe: High-Tech Holistic Skincare 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Other treasures include the armchair in which the philosopher Voltaire died, Marcel Proust’s cork-lined bedroom from his Right Bank apartment and dugout canoes used by the Parisii tribe on the Seine. 36 Hours in Paris, Right Bank 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Like wine and cheese, French philosophy should, he says, be considered part of France's glory. "I tell our ambassadors you have with us philosophers the greatest export product." Alain Badiou: a life in writing 2012-05-18T21:55:11Z The light in the cave isn't much more than a metaphor for what the philosopher Adam Smith referred to as "the spark of humanity," the boundless potential that exists in every mind. 'Lost'-How Will It End? 2010-05-20T19:41:00Z Smith himself was indifferent toward religion and his close friend, the philosopher David Hume, was actively hostile. The Religious Roots of Our Free Enterprise System 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z The philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy waxed poetic on stage, warning of the “black tide of homophobia.” France Debates Gay Marriage 2013-02-01T21:10:09Z Father Brown was the hero of a series of mysteries British author/philosopher G.K. 5 plot-twisting tales in 'Sidney Chambers' collection 2012-07-25T21:47:06Z Guests sitting on old sofas and folding chairs listened as Mr. Attia moderated a debate between two French philosophers on the politics of race in postcolonial times. We Need to Talk About Colonialism, This Artist Says 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Book-It also plans to dramatize Seattle writer Garth Stein's best-seller, "The Art of Racing in the Rain," a story narrated by a loyal family dog with the soul of a philosopher. Book-It Repertory to adapt Western tales for 2011-12 season 2011-06-20T20:39:03Z What's more, there is a French model of being a philosopher which isn't enclosed in the academy as in England – a philosopher who is an intellectual interested in all the things in their age. Alain Badiou: a life in writing 2012-05-18T21:55:11Z Goldberg referred to the philosopher and theologian Saint Augustine. With Atlantic article on reparations, Ta-Nehisi Coates sees payoff for years of struggle For centuries in imperial China, the emperor appointed a Duke of Yansheng, a noble title given to direct descendants of the philosopher. For Confucius and His Descendants, a Cultural Comeback 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, any intelligent skimmer will find a lot to linger over — for instance, the two Stoic philosophers who died of laughter “when they saw a donkey eating figs and drinking wine.” Book World: Mary Beard’s “Laughter in Ancient Rome” reveals history of humor I’ve always been a seeker and a philosopher and a deep thinker. Taylour Paige on ‘Zola,’ Grace and Being Kinder to Herself 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z An earnest, idealistic and self-identified liberal-progressive asked me in class why, in my opinion Rand was so disparaged by philosophers and the mainstream culture at large. Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story 2014-04-25T23:00:00Z He was a naturalist and a philosopher, a soldier and an admiral, and a tireless writer, who turned out close to 100 books. They Were the Renaissance Men of Roman Antiquity 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z The latest philosopher to tackle the problem is Brad Paisley, one of modern Nashville’s biggest stars, and greatest talents. Arts & Leisure: Brad Paisley?s Country Underground 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z In the last week, it has seemed as though he’s intent on adding “budding philosopher” to his resume. Is Jaden Smith the World’s Next Great Philosopher? 2013-09-18T13:00:20Z The Roses don't really engage, however, with the reasoning offered by some philosophers in favour of such enhancement. Genes, Cells and Brains by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose - review 2012-12-19T10:10:01Z As its title suggests, “Seymour: An Introduction” doesn’t try to offer the final word on its subject, Seymour Bernstein, the pianist, composer, teacher, philosopher and ultimate New Yorker. Review: ‘Seymour: An Introduction’ Is a Lesson in Perseverance 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z This has the odd effect of making his lesser effusions — the philosopher Roger Scruton is reported to be “quietly charming” — seem close to put-downs. Review: ‘Brief Candle in the Dark,’ by Richard Dawkins, Puts Intellect Over Intimacy 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Diogenes, who was quite the cynic philosopher, would have seen through this imposture in seconds. Less is more: the age of minimalism 2011-02-11T07:59:01Z The footage of the meeting shows the philosopher, calling, with the full force of his considerable personality, for five minutes to speak. Lévy's Libya: a philosopher's phone call to arms against Gaddafi 2012-05-25T15:00:05Z But he is also a deeply polarizing character, mocked by some critics as a dilettante or sound bite philosopher. A Polarizing French Philosopher Chooses War Zones Over Salons 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Tetsuo Saito, the “singing philosopher,” sounds like the wild man in the meditation room as he cries in Japanese: “We strip off the masks and expose all truths of society.” The Hidden History of Japan’s Folk-Rock Boom 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Tippett, host of the NPR show “On Being,” delves into religion and science and perennial questions with astronomers, neuroscientists, religious leaders, poets and philosophers. Notable nonfiction books in 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The word first appeared, misspelled as enpathy, in a 1909 lecture by the Cornell psychologist Edward B Titchener, and in a translation credited to the Cambridge philosopher and psychologist James Ward the same year. Barack Obama and the 'empathy deficit' 2013-01-04T16:30:11Z His seat had also been held by the Enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu and Alexandre Dumas fils, the scion of the family with black Haitian roots. Dany Laferrière, a Guardian of French, Joins the Académie Française 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Musk, it seems, has been persuaded by what philosophers call the “simulation argument,” an idea given its definitive form in a 2003 paper by the Oxford philosopher and futurologist Nick Bostrom. What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation? 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z From there Konner proceeds to survey research by cognitive and social psychologists, social scientists and philosophers seeking to understand how religion is formed not just in the brain, but in the mind. Faith and Reasons: Two Authors Explore the Persistence of Religious Feeling 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z The massiveness of the poured concrete structures and piled rock embankments hits you in ways 18th century philosophers described as sublime. How does Las Vegas prevent catastrophic floods? The answer is in this exhibition 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z Instead, he sought programming based on "My Ishmael," a book by philosopher Daniel Quinn in which a telepathic gorilla instructs a 12-year-old girl on society's failings. Discovery Channel gunman had explosive devices 2010-09-02T12:22:00Z These are, as Leo Damrosch writes in “The Club,” arguably “the greatest British critic, biographer, political philosopher, historian and economist of all time.” Review | ‘The Club’ spotlights the stars of 18th-century British culture — and invites some new members 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z He was also considered a philosopher in his own day, much like the ancient Greek Diogenes, the former slave known for speaking truth to power. A radical for our time: Benjamin Lay, the Quaker dwarf abolitionist you didn't learn about in class 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z The philosopher Bernard Henri-Lévy, who worked with him on a number of aborted projects about "the Jewish being", once called him a man "trying to cure himself of his antisemitism". Jean-Luc Godard: 'Film is over. What to do?' 2011-07-12T20:30:03Z Their apartment, shared with a miniature Yorkshire terrier named Soren, after the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, is said to be overflowing with books. Chelsea Clinton, Living Up to the Family Name 2011-12-03T23:32:03Z Late in his novel "Your Face in Mine," Jess Row cites a parable attributed to Zhuangzi, a Chinese philosopher from the fourth century BC. 'Your Face in Mine' a bold take on race, identity by Jess Row 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Speaking of executions, the philosopher George Bataille once referred to museums as guillotines, meaning institutional devices that swiftly, cleanly cut art off from life by removing it from its political and psychological sources. New Museum Triennial Looks Great, but Plays It Safe 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Sartre stressed an ever-present emotional element in human thinking that philosophers preoccupied with truth and validity tended to overlook. Freedom fighter 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z “Every man that writes is writing a new Bible, or a new Apocrypha; to last for a week or a thousand years,” the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle recorded in his journal in 1832. The Book of Mormon: the Great American Bible 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Over the next two decades aestheticism burgeoned, drawing in architects and craftworkers, poets, critics and philosophers to create a movement dedicated to pure beauty. Aesthetic values 2011-03-26T00:05:03Z She is currently developing “Wind-Up Girl,” a musical about the French philosopher René Descartes. Three Musical Theater Writers Receive $100,000 Kleban Prizes 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z But even if it were true, it would not show, as Rubio seems to think it does, that our country needs more welders and fewer philosophers. I got slimed by Marco Rubio: The massive debate fail shows off his ignorance 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Simone de Beauvoir, the 20th-century French writer and philosopher, published her foundational feminist text “The Second Sex” in 1949, predating by more than a decade the women’s liberation movement that swept the Western world. Revisiting Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘The Second Sex’ as a Work in Progress 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z The weird thing about talking to philosophers is you expect them to be super-highbrow, but many of them are my generation, and a lot are indie music fans and nerds. From pop star to chiropractor: musicians' post-musical careers 2010-09-23T21:29:00Z In Ancient Greece, Cynic philosophers rejected social and political convention, as well as the heady abstractions of philosophy itself, desiring nothing more than to live in accordance with nature. A Dog’s Purposelessness: Alleged torture on the set of “A Dog’s Purpose” is disgusting, but unsurprising 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z ISU seeks a photograph of a spectacular stained-glass dome honoring 24 philosophers and educators atop Normal Hall, the original campus library. ISU project to restore dome last seen in 1973 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z Leon Battista Alberti, the revered author, artist, poet, priest, linguist and philosopher of the Renaissance, wrote in 1436 that "A painting is a window looking on to the world". I visited the Uffizi gallery at 17, and was awestruck. Now it's exhibiting my art? 2010-12-19T00:07:08Z As the Ghanaian American philosopher Anthony Appiah puts it, true cosmopolitanism "challenges us to embrace what is rich, productive and creative about this difference". Rewire by Ethan Zuckerman; Untangling the Web by Aleks Krotoski – review 2013-07-21T07:00:08Z Philosophical Dialogues Made Physical In his book “Le Danseur des Solitudes,” the French philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman focuses on the experimental flamenco dancer Israel Galván to explore the isolation of a solo. Dance Review: ‘Solos & Solitudes,’ Works by Clark, Gravel and Paggett 2013-04-27T00:02:42Z But like Buster Keaton, another deadpan philosopher who preferred to keep quiet, Frank is never allowed to get what he’s after. Book review: ‘Let Me be Frank With You,’ a new Frank Bascombe book by Richard Ford Hildegard, I soon discovered, is something of a star on the app, where she is described as a scientist, mystic, writer and philosopher and sits adjacent to Tchaikovsky on a composer roster. Apple’s New App Aims to Make Classical Music More Accessible 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z He was part of a course called "greats", which included a few philosophers such as Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard not taught by philosophy departments, along with a far larger number of "creative" writers. Which writer taught me most about love? 2012-02-10T22:55:10Z Her book “The Origins of Totalitarianism” in 1951 established her worldwide reputation as a political philosopher. How the Great Leftist Thinkers of the 20th Century Contended With Zionism 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z The phrase was the opening sentence of a piece on the Enlightenment philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau that I wrote for The New Yorker in August. The Anti-Élite, Post-Fact Worlds of Trump and Rousseau 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Obviously best-known as a philosopher and essayist, but also a dramatist of considerable skill. Making a sc?ne: the five French dramatists you should meet 2011-03-21T12:49:22Z He embellished his past and told fantastic stories, turning his life into an elaborate, almost artistic performance: he was a genius, or a madman, a brilliant writer and radical philosopher. I may have caused my father's death 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z But Mekas, a filmmaker, poet, philosopher, evangelist and one of life’s tireless adventurers, died Wednesday at 96. Jonas Mekas: A Poet With a Movie Camera 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z The classic example of such a figure is Edmund Burke, the Irish-British philosopher and parliamentarian who is generally considered the father of modern conservatism. The Book That Predicted Trump 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z The Rolling Stones touring the United States is the film’s ostensible subject, and Anita Pallenberg, a model and actress who has three children with Keith Richards, is its resident oracle and pop philosopher. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Other proposals include dramatising classical philosophical texts and installing a trail of busts of great philosophers around the town. Malmesbury bids to become UK's first 'philosophy town' 2010-10-17T23:01:00Z The French philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir both championed the book, as did the Black American writer Richard Wright, who had moved to Paris in 1946. George Lamming, Who Chronicled the End of Colonialism, Dies at 94 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Its best and worst qualities look a lot like the best and worst of its founder, the popularizing philosopher Alain de Botton. Review: ‘How to Be Bored’ Looks at How to Deal With the Blahs 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z This English philosopher means a series of sentences which aren't simply a string of words that explain a state or a situation … They become the very act they describe. Atiq Rahimi: Should literature be political? 2013-05-22T10:49:51Z “The last philosophers” is the label Chris Rock bestows on stand-up comedians in Paul Toogood and Lloyd Stanton’s documentary “Dying Laughing.” Review: ‘Dying Laughing,’ About Bombing Onstage, or, Conversely, Killing 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z But historians, philosophers and others also write about the concept of "soul value," our self-worth, that which cannot be fully taken away by another person. Eve Ensler on Donald Trump, rape culture and the "unreckoned history" of America 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z The film's title is a reference to the 16th Century Italian priest, philosopher and astronomer who died when he refused to sign onto Vatican statements that the earth was the center of the universe. Emigre to U.S. documents extraordinary Russian lives 2010-06-25T18:23:00Z It’s a joy for devotees to encounter some record of Hansberry’s influences, including the Chicago poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the Irish playwright Sean O’Casey and the French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. A New Biography of a Brilliant Playwright Who Died Too Young 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Sixteen others on the Spectator’s list included philosophers Confucius, Socrates, Plato, Kant and Aristotle. ISU project to restore dome last seen in 1973 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z “Purity of heart is to will one thing,” the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard wrote. Josef Albers’s Science and Soul of Seeing 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z What are the important terms here for a philosopher for assessing this? The truth about “Cecil the Lion” outrage: Why we’re so angry — and what it says about us 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z As to how Maf came by his feeling for history or his fancy prose style, not to mention an impressive knowledge of the works of numerous philosophers, especially Plutarch, the answer, it seems, is metempsychosis. The Life and Opinions of Maf the?Dog and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe by Andrew O'Hagan 2010-05-07T23:11:00Z Life Is, Beautiful: Humphrey Bogart stars as an existentialist philosopher. Style Invitational: Make some bad choices — ‘questions for terrible people’ 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z After the god Hermes offered Pythagoras any gift except immortality, the philosopher and mathematician decided “to retain, both living and dead, the memory of what he had experienced.” Review | Aristotle’s lisp, why Socrates loved dancing and other tales of ancient thinkers 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Lining up on the atheist side were the prolific Oxford philosopher A.C. ArtsBeat Blog: Have a Little Faith? At NYU, The Debate Rages On 2011-11-16T20:55:51Z “Not many philosophers, I’ll wager, would say that it’s morally justified to release the bowstring,” he wrote, based on what “they might turn out to be.” Extreme Anger Management: Is It O.K. to Kill the Hulk’s Alter Ego? 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z For 18th-century philosophers and noblemen on the Grand Tour, the dramas of “Ruins of Rome” made a point about the transience of civilization — but they were, even more than that, a high-end tourist guide. Alone in the Temporary New Ruins of Rome 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z In that same Palm House, the philosopher Wittgenstein is commemorated by a plaque for the time he lived in Dublin in the 1940s. An Irish Flâneur, Greeting the Past on His Present Wanderings 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z In “The Storyteller,” an essay from 1936, the German-Jewish philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin describes what he sees as the beginning of the end of the oral tradition in the West. How “Peanuts” Created a Space for Thinking 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z For thousands of years, philosophers have debated the role that schooling ought to have in the upbringing of children. Is Jaden Smith the World’s Next Great Philosopher? 2013-09-18T13:00:20Z Artists, poets, writers, philosophers, scholars, musicians, architects and scientists will collaborate at the Royal Geographic Society in a non-stop live performance across two days exploring mapsof all kinds – geographical, scientific, philosophical and conceptual. Frieze fringe: the weekend's best free contemporary art 2010-10-15T14:28:00Z Imagine the erotic vistas that could erupt in your mind's face while a world-famous philosopher is helping an elegant grandmother across the road. Et cetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice - reviews 2012-06-01T21:55:04Z The title of his last show stems from a quip by the philosopher Sidney Morgenbesser. Critic’s Notebook: Proven in Britain, Two Comics Try to Take New York 2013-06-17T21:44:00Z As philosophers have been telling us for centuries, what we see is what we have words for. Art Review: Edward Koren at the Wallach and Luise Ross Galleries 2010-05-20T21:44:00Z This is the sort of argument that flummoxes great philosophers. Evan Cabnet Directs Theresa Rebeck’s ‘Poor Behavior’ 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z The museum disputed that the larger-than-life statue, which investigators believe depicts the great Roman statesman Marcus Aurelius, was even from Turkey and suggested that it was really the torso of a philosopher, not an emperor. Cleveland Museum Sues to Block Seizure of Its ‘Marcus Aurelius’ Bronze 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z I have worked with the philosopher, science journalist, and – particularly helpfully this time – experienced musician Jörg Zittlau and, during the process, new potential techniques to achieve emptiness kept occurring to us. Emptiness doesn't have to mean nothingness: it could mean happiness 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z The founder of feminism, a philosopher, travel writer, human rights activist, she was a profound influence on the Romantics, and an educational pioneer. The original Suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z One of Kaag’s previous books, “American Philosophy,” was a charming, brainy and equally personal account of time he spent reveling in a philosopher’s remarkable and nearly abandoned private library in New England. He Questioned the Meaning of Life. William James Answered. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z The words of 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes — if spoken by James Earl Jones or Morgan Freeman — would have made an ominous opening voice-over for the new "Mad Max" film. 'Mad Max: Fury Road' an apocalyptic tale as old as man's existence 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The investigative trail didn’t yield a photo of the stained-glass or a detailed list of its honored philosophers and academics. ISU project to restore dome last seen in 1973 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z Visiting philosophers live in an efficiency apartment in another part of the barn while working on a project. Where Some See Trash, She Sees Treasure 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z As an “overture” to Make-Believe’s first season, he posted an interview about the power of stories with the star Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel. A Podcast Reaches Across Chicago’s Cultural Divides 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Poet, philosopher, father, husband and president, he was a man who made himself remarkable in a remarkable time. ‘A Friend of Mr. Lincoln’ review: The burning ambition of a future president 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z One was historical and ideological: Russian revolutionaries claimed to be the founders of the promised land prophesied by Karl Marx, a 19th-century Prussian-born philosopher. Stalin, Hitler and the Temptations of Totalitarianism 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z In a 1997 interview with philosopher Jacques Derrida, Coleman looked back on his childhood and how it nearly led him to abandon music altogether. Jazz Saxophonist Ornette Coleman Dies At 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z He joined his school’s Latin Club — “I loved reading about the great philosophers” — and later competed in quiz bowls. Sing for Your Life 2011-05-20T16:00:31Z “The writer? The philosopher?” the tenant asks, when Dyer mentions Adorno’s name. Thomas Mann Lived Here 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z “Art can tell us truths philosophy can’t, but it may require a philosopher to tease out these truths.” | Bernard-Henri Lévy on Art and Philosophy 2013-05-31T21:49:07Z In a laconic essay to accompany CGI renderings of his Swiftian bubble in situ, the philosopher noted that some "failed states" among the customer target group might not be ready for the full parliamentary "experience". Bubbles by Peter Sloterdijk, translated by Wieland Hoban - review 2012-02-10T22:55:00Z "The philosopher Kant once called music the 'quickening art' and Henry has been 'quickened' – he's been brought to life," Sacks says in the video. How music acts as medicine for the soul 2012-06-28T11:34:41Z But it's reasonable to ask: who exactly decides who or what is a philosopher and how? Readers recommend: songs about philosophers – results 2012-11-22T14:30:00Z Throughout his ministry poets, playwrights and philosophers worked in the executive, bringing a new language of aspiration and inventiveness to that of government. Points of culture: what Brazil can teach Britain about art 2010-07-23T15:35:00Z She was a philosopher who used food as her way of explaining, understanding, and coming to terms with life. The 4 essential cooks I turn to again and again 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z "I like the idea of promoting dignity and wisdom," said Owens, adding that for him, the man dress - with its airs of Ancient Greece and philosophers and monks - embodies both. Men in skirts, shiny silks at Paris menswear shows 2011-06-24T00:33:10Z A while turned out to be a few weeks, before I spent a few nights at a philosopher’s house. Lena Dunham on Love Island: ‘I'm asking the same question they do – can you love after hurt?’ 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z She devotes many pages to singing the praises of taste and smell, which philosophers throughout the ages have considered the baser senses, and shows how just about any of us can sharpen them. ‘Cork Dork’ Sniffs, Swills and Spits Through the World of Wine Experts 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z The modern nation state – the Leviathan of the philosopher Hobbes – has had a civilising effect almost everywhere. The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker – review 2012-11-19T07:02:01Z It has long been one of the most contentious questions in 20th-century intellectual history: Just how much, and what kind, of a Nazi was the German philosopher Martin Heidegger? Heidegger’s Notebooks Renew Focus on Anti-Semitism 2014-03-30T21:44:42Z A: It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters, said Epictetus, the ancient Greek philosopher slave. Civilities: How should a gay woman respond to a gift donation made to an anti-LGBT organization? 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Dee was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, navigator, book collector, philosopher and proponent of empire for an expanding Britain. Music Review: An Alchemist Reaches Out Across Centuries 2011-07-03T19:14:09Z He stresses how walking promotes “creative cognition,” and that probably explains why so many writers and other thinkers, beginning with the “peripatetic” philosophers in ancient Greece, valued the activity. Perspective | Walking was freedom in lockdown. Three books show us why it’s so much more. 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z We produce so much data that some philosophers now believe personhood is no longer an equation of body and mind; it must also take into account the digital being. What Should Happen to Our Data When We Die? 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z In Giaimo’s playful updates of academic paintings, the sailor overboard in a turbulent sea is Cap’n Crunch, and the philosopher who contemplates death in the shape of a skull is Charlie Brown. In the galleries: Celebrating nature 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z While his persona has always been the Irish street philosopher, Mr. Quinn, like many performers who spend lots of time in this city, increasingly sounds like Woody Allen. Review: Colin Quinn, Full of Nostalgia for Gritty Old New York 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Very few adults realize that every child, naturally, instinctively, is a philosopher.” Books of The Times: Throwing Mud and Calling It Beautiful 2011-01-11T22:06:40Z Funny to realize in retrospect that Basquiat and the French philosopher Jacques Derrida were on the same page. ‘Jean-Michel Basquiat’ at the Brant Shows His Bifurcated Life 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Could there be some relationship between the rationalist philosopher Rushd and the modern-day novelist Rushdie? Salman Rushdie’s new novel is a swirling tale of genies and geniuses 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Agora Egyptian slave epic, starring Rachel Weisz as a foxy philosopher. Films out this week 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z “Pleasure is the absence of pain,” Olive thought to herself at one point, recalling the words of a philosopher she’d read in college. Elizabeth Strout’s Lovely New Novel Is a Requiem for Small-Town Pain 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Still, Judith Schwarzburg-Benz, a philosopher and senior researcher at the Clever Dog Lab in Vienna, wonders how much we can truly learn about canine communication through a human lens. The ‘Talking’ Dog of TikTok 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z The album, Mr. Shorter’s first in five years, comes with a 74-page graphic novel telling the story of a “rogue philosopher” named Emanon, who takes up arms against the powers of evil. Wayne Shorter, Jazz’s Abstruse Elder, Isn’t Done Innovating Yet 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z “It’s just that loads of idiots have co-opted it. And that hasn’t really happened with Greek philosophy. You don’t think of stupid idiotic rightwing fundamentalist Greek philosopher followers.” Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan: 'Work-wise, Steve's terrific. On a personal level, appalling' 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z The title may make it sound like a stocking filler, unexpected from a philosopher best known for his contrarian politics and skepticism about human progress. Review | We’ve been looking to philosophers to make sense of life. Maybe we should be looking at cats instead. 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Carlisle begins in the middle of Kierkegaard’s life and stays trained on him as a young philosopher, displaying an odd indifference to his harrowing childhood. The Life of a Philosopher for Whom Life Was the Main Question 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Here, she reads the family memoir of her radical philosopher father and an account of her mother's suicide attempt, extra-marital affair and birth of an illegitimate daughter. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-06-08T23:05:29Z Singer is the philosopher and Princeton University professor who helped pioneer the concept of animal rights and has since been a leading force for philanthropy and the ethics of giving. Paul Simon and Peter Singer discuss ‘The Life You Can Save.’ 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z In his new book, Jan-Werner Müller acknowledges the widespread fear that “democracy is in crisis” before pointing out that few people who aren’t political philosophers have given any sustained thought to what democracy actually is. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z But then the author goes on to say that the great physicist was addressing his letter not to scientists or philosophers, but to a bereft family. Benedict Cumberbatch Meets Albert Einstein in Carlo Rovelli’s New Audiobook 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z It’s a survey of the thoughts and dark quips of the Danish philosopher and his ilk, like Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and others, combined with Thacker’s own aphoristic thoughts on the subject. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z But recently, a number of philosophers, futurists, science-fiction writers, and technologists—people who share a near-religious faith in technological progress—have come to believe that the simulation argument is not just plausible, but inescapable. What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation? 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z But it is the sort of thing that reminds us why many theologians and philosophers devoted so much time to trying to bring intellectual order to the world. Medieval Europeans had noses, eyes and ears — and they used them 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Either despite or, just, as possibly, because of that, he is the most formidable and influential philosopher in this book’s pantheon. Review: In Sarah Bakewell’s ‘At the Existentialist Café,’ Nothingness Has a Certain Something 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Recent Times reports about secret American drone strikes that “repeatedly” killed innocent civilians brings to mind what the philosopher Judith Shklar once called the “pure, unalloyed cruelty” of the protected attacking the helpless. New Books Update Our Thinking About Cruelty 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Robinson’s great hero, the Puritan preacher and philosopher Jonathan Edwards, said we should never permit a thought that we wouldn’t indulge on our deathbeds. Marilynne Robinson’s Essays Reflect an Eccentric, Exasperating, Profound and Generous Mind 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z As the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once put it, someone who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Adele "30": The psychology of why sad songs make us feel good 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z To paraphrase the French philosopher Joseph de Maistre, every country gets the police it deserves. Two Books Argue the Case for Police Reform From Within 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z As the man who wanted to be a philosopher said to Dr Johnson, 'Cheerfulness keeps breaking through.' 'This wretched church' 2010-04-19T07:00:00Z Because of my role as critic and philosopher, and as a New Yorker associated with the arts, I am often asked for my opinion of what this new work, designed for this occasion, means. Sitting With Marina 2010-05-23T21:05:00Z Some of the most interesting chapters in this book are those in which Smolin traces the history of what the philosopher Edmund Husserl called the "mathematisation of Nature". Time Reborn by Lee Smolin – review 2013-06-06T06:30:01Z His favourite philosopher was Wittgenstein, and his knowledge about philosophy, art, dance and music was enormous. Franz West loved, above all else, art and its creation 2012-07-27T15:45:12Z But it was also a time when an act forbidding accusations of witchcraft was thought necessary, and natural philosophers still justified their investigations into the deep past against the ludicrous timeframe established by Bishop Ussher. The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones by Jack Wolf – review 2013-01-11T20:00:04Z Each of its chapters opens with a recitation of Aristotle or a consideration of his influence on other philosophers, including Nietzsche, Kant, and the political theorist Carl Schmitt. What Jacques Derrida Understood About Friendship 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z For Jacques Derrida only the philosopher’s actual last “testament,” titled “Learning to Live: Finally,” is reprinted but with an introduction, annotations and an extensive bibliography. Nora Ephron, David Foster Wallace and others: ‘The Last Interview’ series 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z "He's gone beyond being a famous musician, he's now a philosopher and prophet," he adds. 'Beyond' famous 2011-04-08T13:58:07Z But “Infinite Jest” warned against the insidious virality of popular entertainment long before anyone but the most Delphic philosophers of technology. Everything About Everything: David Foster Wallace’s ‘Infinite Jest’ at 20 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z “Swift Arrow,” deftly interpreted by Peck and Mejia, comes with an epigraph from the Greek philosopher Heraclitus: “The harmony of the ordered-world is one of contrary tensions, like that of the harp or bow.” Review | At Kennedy Center’s ‘Evening of Jazz and Dance,’ glimmers of renewal 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z She is highly intelligent and educated and she is going to take an interest in Wittgenstein, rather than a 20th century African philosopher which her professor criticizes her for. "Saint Omer" examines the darkest maternity taboos and the "language of the accused" 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z More explicit than the novel, the movie ends with a communist official inverting a quote associated with the Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci, “the truth isn’t always revolutionary.” ‘Illustrious Corpses’: A Mafia Thriller Heavy With Metaphors 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z It’s also a window into what life as a “rock-star philosopher” might be like. Bernard-Henri Lévy on Anti-Semitism, American Elections, and the Future of Europe 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Eventually Galen, a physician and philosopher who died in A.D. From Biden’s giant Bible to Christian flags waved by rioters, "religion" means many different things 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z For windowpanes, woodcuts and parchment pages, they depicted fluted columns and arched doorways around saints, Greek philosophers and French royals. Antiques: Dymaxion Cars, Americana Auctions and French Gilded Art 2011-01-13T22:41:34Z If historians have reached the conclusion that no benefits of empire can be extracted from its history of oppression, does that mean moral philosophers must bow to that consensus? Do we need to hide who we are to speak freely in the era of identity politics? 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z If so, Christian philosophers, insofar as we engage in the academic discussion of moral issues, are in a difficult position. Religion is not really about ethics 2011-04-08T17:15:52Z As in the novel, the philosopher looks with dismay at the lurid romances that Jo writes and sells. The Compromises of Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women” 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z “To call a philosopher irrational, those are fighting words,” he said. Alvin Plantinga?s New Book on God and Science 2011-12-13T22:30:17Z Our parties were filled with artists, philosophers and poets. Making Intergalactic and Intergenerational Art 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z In the libretto Don Alfonso is described as an old philosopher. Music Review: ‘Così Fan Tutte,’ at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2012-11-16T23:12:47Z To borrow the well-worn metaphor of another Briton, philosopher Isaiah Berlin, Brown was the fox and Wintour was the hedgehog in their slow march to the top. Anna Wintour and Tina Brown: Inside their Condé Nast rivalry 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z It's also a rebuke to postwar and often postmodern French philosophers such as Derrida, Lyotard, Baudrillard and Foucault with whom he argued and all of whom he has outlived. Alain Badiou: a life in writing 2012-05-18T21:55:11Z In recent years, he’s read political philosopher Hannah Arendt and feminist Rebecca Solnit’s “The Mother of All Questions” — ex-girlfriend Jenny Slate gave him the latter — and been increasingly upset by Trump’s policies and behavior. Captain America is trying to … captain America 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z As for the Scottish philosopher David Hume, he thought it was simply "a book, presented to us by a barbarous and ignorant people… corroborated by no concurring testimony". The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science by Steve Jones – review 2013-05-04T13:00:01Z For a philosopher, the question of what sex actually is remains open. Are any of us truly comfortable with sex? 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Kant help it Other designs included a reel of film topped by Allen's glasses and a life-size statue of the auteur dwarfed beside an existing statue of the city's most famous son, philosopher Immanuel Kant. Snapshot: Russia to get its own Woody Allen statue 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z Nor can Cambridge's strange catalogue of scientists, mathematicians and philosophers from Newton through Hardy, Russell, Moore, Wittgenstein and Turing be ignored. Stephen Fry recalls his student days for West End play: From the archive, 2 April 1988 2013-04-02T06:00:00Z Eventually Elster begins to sound a little like the French philosopher Teilhard de Chardin, imagining an omega point beyond consciousness and human evolution. 2010-02-03T22:36:00Z Those were the words of Ti-Grace Atkinson, an author and philosopher, when she resigned from the Feminists, a radical group she had founded in the late 1960s. Defending Lena Dunham From the Wrath of the Sisterhood 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z A philosopher came up to me and said there was, namely one that included all the facts about the subject. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z It is Diane and Will who are living the comedy of remarriage, to borrow the phrase of the philosopher Stanley Cavell. Critic?s Notebook: Dirty Politics: From Halls of Power to Hotel Suites 2011-05-18T05:50:00Z In the piece Ms. Mir explores the relationship between science and faith in a dialogue with the 17th-century Italian physicist and philosopher and documents a gravitational experiment. The Week Ahead: Oct. 30 ? Nov. 5 2011-10-27T18:15:00Z There’s a touch of screwball to the setup, and at times, the movie seems on the verge of becoming a fresh contemporary gloss on what the philosopher Stanley Cavell calls the comedy of remarriage. ‘The One I Love,’ With Elisabeth Moss and Mark Duplass 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Hall sees his answer as a source of great comfort, his most important insight being that people need to find their own purpose and search out a middle way — “nothing in excess,” the philosopher said. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z When she first read these philosophers, she thought that their minds were all that mattered: “Never mind lives; ideas were the thing.” Review: In Sarah Bakewell’s ‘At the Existentialist Café,’ Nothingness Has a Certain Something 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z He was the resident barroom philosopher of his local café: “Every night we were talking about the most ?important things in life to us–politics, religion, women–everything.” Brunello Cucinelli: Life By Design 2013-03-28T14:25:42Z Its inclusion is the art equivalent of what language philosophers call a “performative utterance,” a statement that not only describes or says something, but makes something tangible happen in the real world. A free-wheeling medium for a free-wheeling country 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z An elite team of Nobel Prize-winning philosophers, Oxford scholars and criminologists worked round the clock for six years compiling the 7,000-plus images and 10 million words of text that you are about to read. Sex! Drugs! Violence! Great moments in exploitation cinema 2010-10-09T00:20:00Z A jack of all mediums, including music, he is part court jester, part circus master, part philosopher and also something of a Luddite. Martin Creed’s Anti-Spectacle at the Park Avenue Armory 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Nuttall raises a “paradox of democracy” posited by philosopher Karl Popper: “What is one to do when the demos, the people, freely decides to resign its power to a despot?” The theater of Trump: What Shakespeare can teach us about the Donald 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z They continue, “The philosopher Ruwen Ogien defended the freedom to offend as essential to artistic creation. In the same way, we defend a freedom to bother, indispensable to sexual freedom.” Catherine Deneuve and Others Denounce the #MeToo Movement 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z His philosophers don’t want to return to the past, he insists. Defending Conservatism, and Seeking Converts 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Early pessimistic philosophers, writing in pre-modern eras of much higher human mortality rates, assiduously investigated the inherent cruelties of existence. Should We Be More Pessimistic? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Pop philosopher Alain Finkielkraut feared that some people would draw the conclusion that a "Jewish lobby" was dictating policy to the French government. C?line: great author and 'absolute bastard' 2011-01-31T11:33:28Z Some bemoan the fact that once-revered philosophers like Plato, Aeschylus, Homer and St. Augustine are being tossed aside because their complex, dated ideas just don't resonate with this empowered new generation of kids. Students kickin' the old school in 'Office Hours' 2010-10-01T18:32:00Z Berlin the liberal political philosopher and Deutscher the Marxist historian were both asylum seekers, given refuge and residence in Britain during the early decades of the last century. Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic by David Caute – review 2013-06-20T07:00:34Z "He was a philosopher, she thought, meditating the difference between appearance and reality." It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z With each loop through time, the bystanders change — from naturalists and monarchs to dancers, writers, composers, artists, philosophers, statesmen, Rolling Stones and tourists. A Sunny Place for Shady People 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z He spoke Aramaic perfectly, but it was much more likely, given all the circumstances, that he was a Gentile, perhaps a Greek philosopher from Athens or Alexandria. Philip Pullman: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z Tallis unpicks the problems with all the various philosophers' arguments, in particular with reference to possibilities – "call no event future until it is past" is his aphoristic solution – while offering other, deeper approaches to time. In Defence of Wonder and Other Philosophical Reflections by Raymond Tallis – review 2012-07-06T21:55:07Z The Dymaxion Car R. Buckminster Fuller, the architect and philosopher, helped cobble together three car prototypes shaped like zeppelins. Antiques: Dymaxion Cars, Americana Auctions and French Gilded Art 2011-01-13T22:41:34Z Economists, religious leaders and philosophers are getting into the conversation. 6 things money shouldn’t be able to buy 2012-12-11T15:49:00Z In 2004, the Labour MP Stephen Pound put down an early day motion asking the house to recognise the 10th anniversary of Hicks's death, describing him as an "unflinching and painfully honest political philosopher". The adulation of Bill Hicks 2010-05-16T22:30:00Z While there, you can also visit the tomb of Antonio Gramsci, the Italian philosopher, writer and founder of the Italian Communist Party, who was imprisoned until near death for opposing fascism. Read Your Way Through Rome 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z He explicitly ventures into the conflict between optimists like Steven Pinker and pessimists like the British philosopher John Gray. Humans Know a Lot, This Author Concedes, and Most of It Is Useless 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Candide's philosopher companion Pangloss offers an analysis of their odyssey, and Candide responds, "All that is very well, but we must cultivate our gardens." My houseplant garden is a tiny national park Donald Trump can never destroy 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z Next he asked why I decided on Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher, as my dissertation topic. Green Bay Packers fans love that their team doesn’t have an owner — just don’t call it “c... 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z The authorship of Shakespeare's works has long been disputed, with one theory being that philosopher Sir Francis Bacon is the true author of the works. Oxford says Shakespeare will share credit for Henry VI 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z He then riffed on a quote from Martin Heidegger, the German philosopher. With a Violent Debut, He Reveals a London That Is Rarely Seen 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z Rob Grant’s “Harpoon” opens with a voice-over paraphrasing Aristotle: Some friendships, the philosopher theorized, are maintained out of convenience, some for pleasure, some for fulfillment. ‘Harpoon’ Review: Three Friends, One Yacht, Copious Blood 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z At William and Mary, Jefferson’s tastes were more eclectic, shaped by the empiricism of teachers steeped in the Scottish Enlightenment and by a preference for Greek philosophers over Romans. What America Owes to the Greeks and Romans 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z His style is eloquent, allusive and elusive, and he urges us to read Heidegger's essay on boredom which the philosopher considers "the basis of existence". Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow ? review 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z Still working with his Rolleiflex camera and a close-up lens bought from a camera shop in Edinburgh, Pyke made his name with very tight portraits of everybody from philosophers to film stars. The 10 best photographic portraits 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z One criticism of the show over the years has been that it throws all these big ideas in by giving characters names of philosophers: Hume, Rousseau Locke and the like. Television: The Men Who Made ABC?s ?Lost? Last 2010-05-14T01:15:00Z He's a Greek chorus in a story about two ruminative, gallivanting philosopher kings and brings cohesiveness to a wandering but impressive album. matsononmusic. Kanye, Jay-Z head the list of new CDs 2011-08-22T22:12:30Z The charismatic philosopher Elbert Hubbard enthralled woodcarvers at his Roycroft campus near Buffalo, and the sculptor Frank Stephens helped found a Delaware town named Arden, where artisans spoke Esperanto and occasionally lived in tents. Antiques: Renderings in the Sand 2011-05-06T06:15:08Z Every act of rebellion, according to the great philosopher and novelist, not only rejects something, but affirms another. In Joan Osborne's revolution, you can dance 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z We studied death Not the death that is not ours In that we have no interest We are not philosophers. A Brief History of Death 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z The title of Sigrid Nunez’s disconcerting new novel comes from French philosopher Simone Weil, who believed that asking that very question, was what love of one’s neighbor truly meant. Review | Sigrid Nunez’s ‘What Are You Going Through’ is an ambitious novel about the meaning of life and death 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z One theory, suggested by the philosopher Christine Battersby, is that it challenges the idea that man was simply “thrown into the world”, as Heidegger described it. Baby love: how pop stars embraced pregnancy 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z He is particularly interested in the appearance of new words—terms that were invented or appropriated by innovative mathematicians, physicians and philosophers, like discovery, experiment, fact, evidence, theory, and, in the end, even science. Understanding the universe 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z In 1925 the African-American philosopher Alain Locke, a shaper of the Harlem Renaissance, told black artists to advance themselves by adopting modernist forms that would move them beyond racial stereotypes. Art Review: Tracking Racial Identity, But Not Defined by It 2010-12-23T22:15:18Z This woman knows — after all, she’s a philosopher — that it’s natural to wonder whether life has “meaning and design,” and equally natural to consider that it doesn’t. James Wood’s New Novel Confronts the Mystery of Other Minds 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z And perhaps our job, as philosophers, is to re-create that original mother tongue or universal character, and rescue humankind from its long captivity in Babel. The secret philosophy of language: Searching for the origins of human thought 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z The philosopher has, said Holten, "challenged opera writers to write about their fears and hopes for the world now." Royal Opera House reveals new season on eve of chief executive's departure 2013-01-10T18:56:20Z A piece by Cambridge philosopher Simon Blackburn in the current issue of the Society of Authors journal addresses the intractable question of whether philosophy ought to be accessible to the general reader. Philosophy is supposed to be difficult 2011-02-25T12:01:28Z Among the some 2,000 people he rescued were the artist Max Ernst, the political philosopher Hannah Arendt and the German novelist Heinrich Mann. In ‘Transatlantic,’ Stories of Rescue and Resistance From World War II 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z In their bland readability, these books defeated their own avowed project of getting everybody interested in the great philosophers, by confessing how unreadable the texts of Kant and Hegel themselves must be. Philosophy is supposed to be difficult 2011-02-25T12:01:28Z These shots are by Jean Baudrillard, the celebrated French philosopher who died three years ago; he was a big influence on Nouvel, as well as a friend. The new Sepentine pavilion is a rhapsody in red 2010-07-06T20:31:00Z His intoxicating call to embrace liberation and to live up to our highest aspirations has inspired generations of novelists, playwrights and philosophers, to say nothing of countless undergraduates. Two New Books Confront Nietzsche and His Ideas 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z The Washington Post’s Katharine and Don Graham, the philosopher Isaiah Berlin and other guests waited hungrily for the President and ambassador to come to table. Susan Mary Alsop: a Two-Continent Hostess 2012-11-09T23:22:51Z In that case, why bother with the philosophers at all? Perspective | Remember when high culture was revered? Louis Menand’s ‘The Free World’ made me nostalgic. 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z For nearly half a century, natural philosophers had been turning away from those old dogmas. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z To help explain the twins’ place not just in their own world but in ours as well, he enlists the help of anthropologists, botanists, novelists, essayists and philosophers. Who Were the Original Siamese Twins? 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Yet the familiar narrative of the aged philosopher, magically rejuvenated, who wreaks havoc on the innocent Marguerite and her brother, holds firm. Faust 2010-09-20T21:00:00Z Many are to his childhood friend from Pittsburgh, the philosopher of language Kenneth Burke, and to his lifelong confidant Allen Tate. Books of The Times: ‘The Long Voyage,’ a Collection of Malcolm Cowley’s Thoughts 2014-02-11T19:43:52Z Ted Kotcheff, the director of Wake in Fright, recently told me how he was inspired by what the German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz called “petite perceptions”. Mad Max: Fury Road in black and white: a fascinating re-evaluation of a groundbreaking film | Luke Buckmaster 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z A lucid joint portrait of the writers and philosophers who embodied existentialism. 100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z As the French feminist philosopher Luce Irigaray once put it, “The path of renunciation described by certain mystics is women’s daily lot.” What moms get in return: The unexpected enlightenment of parenting while female 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z They may not necessarily compete with the best wines in the world, but as the philosophers say, a pursuit of the best should not be the enemy of the good. You Can Teach an Old-Vine Grape New Tricks 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z That’s not an easily earned title, in a music community full of philosophers. Wayne Shorter, a Jazz Hero Whose Goal Was ‘to Fear Nothing’ 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z In the United States, it was philosophers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau who first engaged with the philosophy of yoga in the 1830s. Yoga isn’t timeless: it’s changing to meet contemporary needs 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z Historians and philosophers wrote about Tokaj’s ability to cure various illnesses and problems — from fever and indigestion to laziness. In Slovakia, a Wine Region Waiting for the Spotlight 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z "Magritte wanted to cross swords, meaning to engage in a theoretical combat with the philosophers, to prove to them that images can express thoughts in the same way that words can," Ottinger said. 'This is not a pipe': Magritte's 'Treachery of Images' beguiles Paris 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z According to prescient predictions made by Austrian scientist and philosopher Rudolf Steiner in 1923, honeybee colonies are collapsing right on schedule. 'Queen of the Sun': Documentary hopes to ease sting of honeybee crisis 2011-03-03T21:01:09Z Yes, he's funny," says Burns, "but he's also a poet and a philosopher. Daniel Kitson: the Salinger of standup 2012-08-05T17:30:01Z As the field expands, many philosophers and academics are raising questions about what A.I. means for the future of human intelligence. Sunday Reading: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z For that matter, Max Casella’s cynical philosopher Apemantus sometimes exudes a scruffy sympathy rather than the implacable disgust for man’s vileness that defines the character. | 'Timon of Athens': A Dinner of Water and Stones for Those Friends Who Don?t Come Through 2011-03-02T03:01:04Z The film asks, as did French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre: Where does moral responsibility begin and end? Powerful Turkish film “Winter Sleep” wows Cannes 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z I took the same question to a cognitive linguist/philosopher, George Lakoff. Perspective | What do ‘Lock her up’ and ‘Send her back’ have in common? It’s pretty obvious. 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z The ancient Stoics praised the philosopher Anaxagoras for his reported response to his son’s death: “I always knew that my child was a mortal.” Snowflake or tough cookie, you’re just hiding from pain | Oliver Burkeman 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z But in the late 16th century, English philosopher and scientist Sir Francis Bacon took Facts under his wing and began to develop a new way of thinking. Facts, 360 B.C.-A.D. 2012 2012-04-20T21:47:00Z And then there are the artists; poets, painters, philosophers, composers. Syphilis, sex and fear 2013-05-17T15:59:01Z The philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum wants Americans to get in touch with their feelings; not in a fit of self-indulgence but as a righteous act of civic duty. When It Comes to Politics, Be Afraid. But Not Too Afraid. 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Most technical philosophers tend to look at the world as armchair scientists. Freedom fighter 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z What serious philosopher in this vein ever failed to rename and slightly redefine the very concept of existence? Review: In Sarah Bakewell’s ‘At the Existentialist Café,’ Nothingness Has a Certain Something 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Gurdjieff record, in which the late Russian philosopher improvises on a harmonium. R.E.M.’s Peter Buck needed a new label. The one he chose won’t take your credit card. 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z I highly recommend this book for young philosophers like you! Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder - review 2012-06-11T08:00:00Z I began to think that something united all those psychologists and philosophers — and even the occasional self-help guru — whose ideas seemed actually to hold water. Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z These scenes resemble drawings in the alchemical tradition, which gave rise to a now debunked theory that the thirteenth-century natural philosopher Roger Bacon wrote the book. The Unsolvable Mysteries of the Voynich Manuscript 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z As a famous philosopher once observed, there's a thin line between love and hate, and the strong emotions July provokes testify, I believe, to the purity and fearlessness of her work. Miranda July faces "The Future" 2011-07-27T00:30:00Z The title is a play on the thought experiment by the philosopher Erwin Schrödinger, in which a hypothetical cat is both alive and dead at the same time. Buying Dora Maar’s Diary on eBay and Other Classy Tales From France 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z Religious leaders, diplomats, intelligence officials, philosophers and scientists examine the puzzle from all angles. ‘The Anomaly,’ Part Airplane Thriller and Part Exploration of Reality, Fate and Free Will 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z There was a bust of his hero, Michelangelo, a plaster cast of the Stoic philosopher, Seneca, and a library of around 1,000 books. Borromini: the first architect 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z That’s what it is, for a philosopher and for a poet: the tendency of all phenomena to become random. Albert Murray and the Limits of Critics with Theories 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z In his book “How to Think About Exercise,” Australian philosopher Damon Young offers a foundation to fulfill that resolution. You’re thinking about fitness all wrong 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z She felt clear that she could employ research and reference sources, but she was much less clear about whether I - an in-house philosopher - could serve as an appropriate resource. Motherlode Blog: When 'Help' With Homework Is Too Much 2013-02-03T14:22:47Z A scientific inquiry into elements of mystical places and magical objects—the philosopher’s stone, love potions and the oracles—from ancient history, mythology, and contemporary culture, by one of our science correspondents. What we wrote... 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z A French philosopher told me he once spent a week waiting in vain outside his house for an audience. Jean-Luc Godard: 'Film is over. What to do?' 2011-07-12T20:30:03Z They were freelance philosophers working independently of the universities, criticising mainstream views and liberating thought from its academic straitjacket and neo-Aristotelian dogmatism. Seeing the light 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z You could call him a novelist of ideas, but also a philosopher working in fiction. J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus Sees the World as Don Quixote Does 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z “Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower,” wrote the French philosopher Albert Camus. Searching for Fall Colors? Let Me Get the Llama for You 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Albert Murray, the great 20th-century philosopher of the blues, put the matter more abstractly. ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Review: All the Blues That’s Fit to Sing 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z The philosopher Ernst Block compared Weimar Germany to Periclean Athens of the fifth century BCE: a time of cultural thriving, sovereign self-governance, and increased social and political equality. Bad times make great art. Worlds of light and shadow: The reproduction of liberalism in Weimar Germany 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z The spy rambles on about Leszek Kolakowski, a Polish philosopher whose views on good and evil were stern indeed: black and white and never blurry. 'Our Kind of Traitor': John le Carr?'s novel of the world's number-one money launderer 2010-10-13T23:08:00Z “I’m not a philosopher or a preacher, but I do know that we have the power to change ourselves,” she said. Wacky costumes and competitions: Fitness instructors create community despite covid-19 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Once we looked to the doctor, the priest, the philosopher or the artist for guidance on how to live. Ruby Wax: Losing It ? review 2011-02-25T19:34:08Z One that sent Mr. Bolton not just into his own storage room but down a conceptual wormhole: through Charles Baudelaire and the early-20th-century philosopher Henri Bergson, Albert Einstein and Walter Benjamin, Proust and Virginia Woolf. How Memory Maps Fashion’s Future 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z The philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy is pontificating in a corner by the door. T Magazine: The Real Housewife of Paris 2011-02-25T21:00:47Z Many of them may be channeling Maimonides, the 12th-century Jewish philosopher and scholar who ranked anonymous giving as one of the higher levels of charity. How Do You Raise $3.47 Billion? Ask These Guys. 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z You can hear traces of Darkside in the other’s respective solo projects, but their fusion operates like a philosophers’ stone. Darkside returns to lay claim to the title of best psychedelic rock band in the world 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z In the days leading up to and following the Presidential election, a seemingly prophetic passage from the late philosopher Richard Rorty circulated virally on the Internet. Richard Rorty’s Philosophical Argument for National Pride 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z In recent years, the Arakawa and Ms. Gins’s work was taken up by philosophers and scientists, and they were the subject of several symposiums. Arakawa, Artist Who Tried to Halt Aging, Dies at 73 2010-05-20T05:15:00Z I live on one such summit of cultural irony — a college campus — and though the interview with the philosopher provides some interesting insights into irony, it seems outside the realm of my practical experience. Are millennials too cool for sincerity? The truth about our love affair with irony 2014-05-11T10:59:00Z The dilemma he or she faces would look familiar to Roman Stoic philosophers in the age of Nero, especially Seneca the Younger, who wrestled with it himself for fifteen years and never found a solution. Seneca Could Have Written the Anonymous Times Op-Ed About Trump 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Then Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician and philosopher, showed that the height of mercury in a barometer reflected the weight of the atmosphere, not nature’s abhorrence of a vacuum, as claimed by Aristotle. Understanding the universe 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z The episode's plot is bizarre: Aliens who worship the Greek philosopher Plato use telekinetic powers to force the Enterprise crew to sing, dance and kiss. The story behind "Star Trek" actress Nichelle Nichols’ iconic interracial kiss 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z A cultural historian and philosopher of education, Barzun would be limited, and made more bland, by the term eccentric. Opening Day: Spring’s other religious holiday 2013-04-01T22:13:00Z As a renaissance man and amateur enlightenment philosopher, Laszlo champions reason over violence, and loyalty to his heart over any law that would compel him to do otherwise. It's a scientific fact: "What We Do in the Shadows" Laszlo is a friend we need, in deed 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z He brought on books and told a story about German political and religious philosophers, a long-winded story that fizzled at the end. Dance Review: Simone Forti’s ‘That Fish Is Broke’ at Danspace Project 2012-11-14T16:40:57Z He is, after all, a professional philosopher, and his training tells him that what cannot be translated into plain words is nothing but sophistry and illusion. The God Argument: the Case Against Religion and For Humanism by AC Grayling – review 2013-03-07T10:00:01Z The hero of Plato's dialogues, Socrates, explained to his friends, hours before his execution, that the philosopher yearns for his death because it marks the liberation of the soul into its true existence. Disney Pixar’s Soul: how the moviemakers took Plato’s view of existence and added a modern twist 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z Like artist, philosopher or the ordinary people who we are. best regards, Rafaela. ‘Elena,’ a Documentary About a Brazilian Actress 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z He recently finished “At the Existentialist Café,” by Sarah Bakewell, about the work of philosophers including Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Stuck in a Reading Rut? How to Create New Book Habits 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z The best critics and philosophers slide, necessarily, to and fro on the scale from butterfly to pedant. ‘What We See When We Read,’ by Peter Mendelsund 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z In the study, terms such as philosopher and captain were gendered male, while the opposite was true for terms such as homemaker. Apple’s Siri is no longer a woman by default, but is this really a win for feminism? 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z For his last Geffen show, “Invisible Tango,” Guimarães was described by the Los Angeles Times’s Charles McNulty as “either a magician posing as a philosopher or a philosopher posing as a magician.” Theaters may be dark, but theater-makers are still finding ways to dazzle you 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z He ends by quoting the philosopher Karl Jaspers, who in 1946 warned against the blind spots that were so tempting to cultivate: “Let us actually seek out that which contradicts us.” Rubble and Repression: An Intimate Look at Germany in the Decade After Hitler 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z Velia is famed for being the home of an ancient Greek school of philosophy, including philosophers Parmenides and Zeno. Ancient helmets, temple ruins found at dig in southern Italy 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z In the late 1960s, he participated in a private tribunal in Europe — organized by philosophers Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre, among others — to investigate U.S. actions in Vietnam. Gabriel Kolko, historian who skewered U.S. economic and foreign policies, dies at 81 This is disturbing to philosophers as well as physicists. What Does Quantum Physics Actually Tell Us About the World? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z He relates the tale of the famously unattractive French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, who at age 7 sported a halo of golden locks, which his grandfather decided were too girly. Swooning over Justin Trudeau: Our collective freak-out over Canada’s Prime Minister is about more than “nice hair” 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z But we also see how this zealous consideration of every argument presented by every great philosopher prevents Chidi from forging lasting relationship. "The Good Place" tenderly approaches the final answer in its midseason finale 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Religions have never placed much explicit emphasis on it, at least as far as this world is concerned; philosophers have certainly not been unanimous in endorsing it, either. Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z After serving in Austria’s army during World War I, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein spent some time as an elementary schoolteacher. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z A cook, alchemist and philosopher and the inventor of the modern wine bottle, his life seems to have sunk without a trace. Forgotten hero 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z As blade and handle are replaced in turn, it is never quite clear when the philosopher's knife is replaced. In praise of ? the Abbey Road crossing 2010-12-28T00:00:00Z That essay framed a landmark challenge to the materialist view of the mind that was then prevailing and helped cement Mr. Nagel’s reputation as one of the most incisive and imaginative of contemporary philosophers. Thomas Nagel Is Praised by Creationists 2013-02-06T22:56:34Z Like other eminent figures of the Age of Reason he was both a politician and a man of science, a philosopher and what we might nowadays call a player. Movie Review: ‘A Royal Affair,’ With Mads Mikkelsen 2012-11-08T22:32:05Z It seems like Nietzsche is one of the few philosophers whom lots of people who have never studied philosophy still enjoy reading. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z If anything, the tour was too short, but it seemed to justify the initial quotation on the wall from the German Jewish philosopher Martin Buber: “The only way to learn is through encounter.” Exhibition Review: Darkness Visible, and Palpable 2011-08-18T21:50:50Z So did the German philosophers who inspired them. Smokey and the bandits 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Influenced by the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Day believed in an ethos of 'back to nature'. How to Create the Perfect Wife by Wendy Moore – review 2013-01-04T22:55:08Z “A Drinkable Feast” celebrates the drinks and watering holes of the era, allowing a glimpse into the broad, boozy company of writers and artists and philosophers who spent time in Paris in the 1920s. Raise a glass to 1920s Paris and the Americans who imbibed there 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z But, as the philosopher J. C. Beall pointed out in his talk, logic is weak. ‘A Night of Philosophy,’ 12 Hours of a Mental Marathon 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z Bakewell illuminates the long tradition of humanism — which explores the moral dimensions of what it really means to be human — using the work of great philosophers, artists and writers. 19 Works of Nonfiction to Read This Spring 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Rather than the friendly equanimity espoused as typically conservative by the English philosopher Michael Oakeshott, this is a fighting nostalgia. The Book That Predicted Trump 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z He's a cosmic philosopher riding an earthbound backbeat on "Somewhere." Hendrix at 70: New album offers different look 2013-03-05T19:25:24Z Johan was always the more dynamic and impressive of the two—an intellectual star, a brilliant philosopher, while Elias was just plodding through university, on his way to becoming a schoolteacher. The Books I Loved in 2015 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z They were Islamic saints, the poets and philosophers revered by Sufism, the mystical branch of Islam. Music Review: In Union Square, New York?s First Sufi Music Festival 2010-07-21T22:31:00Z Johnson is best known as a philosopher and the author of novels including “Middle Passage” — but a cartoonist? Black Lives Drawn and Stories of Struggle Told Through Comics 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Gray, a British philosopher, has long been one of the sharpest critics of the neoliberal consensus that emerged after the end of the Cold War. Want the Good Life? This Philosopher Suggests Learning From Cats 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z How Meillassoux gets there is not our concern here; suffice it to say that the two philosophers share a fairly Lovecraftian attitude. HP Lovecraft, pulp philosopher 2013-04-11T20:22:00Z There is, indeed, a rich and venerable literature of ethical thought, by philosophers, religious thinkers and others, that treats difficult questions — including those she addresses — with depth and nuance. Review | ‘The Power of Ethics’ offers a way forward in an increasingly muddled world 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Sarastro's brotherhood, a parade of philosophers dating from the Renaissance to the 18th century, are the male guardians of western consciousness from which women have all too frequently been excluded. Die Zauberflöte – review 2013-04-17T13:36:34Z Since the time of the Greek philosopher Anaximander, humans have gazed up at the heavens and wondered: Is anyone else out there? Why Aliens Are So Important to 'Star Trek' 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z But the charges against the philosopher strike a deeper chord, according to Dr. Alexander Nehamas, a Princeton University professor and Greek scholar. Greeks Bearing Rifts: Socrates Goes Back on Trial 2011-05-17T11:20:00Z You can compare it with computer chess, says the philosopher of music Stephen Davies, of the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Iamus, classical music's computer composer, live from Malaga 2012-07-01T11:56:51Z What impresses me about them is they're like philosophers on some level. Did George Carlin have the best comedy routine on every political subject? Judd Apatow thinks so 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z But best are his readings of earlier philosophers, which are a revelation. Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z As a young man in prison Malcolm steeped himself not just in black history, Mr. Marable writes, but in “Herodotus, Kant, Nietzsche, and other historians and philosophers of Western civilization.” Books of The Times: Stripping Away Myth and Finding Multiple Masks 2011-04-07T13:56:45Z This view of young children who believe easily is shared by many, including 18th-century philosopher Thomas Reid, and developmental psychologists, who argue that children are strongly biased to trust what people tell them. Dear Santa Claus: Why do I still believe you exist? 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z In a separate performance titled the "Kierkegaard Comedy Show," 46-year-old actor Claus Damgaard uses the philosopher's thoughts to discuss sex and modern romantic relationships with a mix of humor and lecturing. Danish philosopher's tough ideas adapted for kids 2013-05-04T06:36:08Z With regard to the American 21st century, Gaddis’s favorite novelists and philosophers perhaps argue against both optional intercessions abroad and moralistic lead-from-behind recessionals. When to Wage War, and How to Win: A Guide 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Facts was born in ancient Greece, the brainchild of famed philosopher Aristotle. Facts, 360 B.C.-A.D. 2012 2012-04-20T21:47:00Z Indeed, what is billed as the world's largest philosophy festival is as much frequented by physicists and scientists as by philosophers. Editorial 2012-06-04T20:30:01Z More than one writer suggested that Dylan follow the path of philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, who in 1964 was awarded the Nobel but refused to accept it. Why Bob Dylan’s Impact Is Bigger Than His Nobel Prize 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Over the centuries, Facts became such a prevalent part of most people's lives that Irish philosopher Edmund Burke once said: "Facts are to the mind what food is to the body." Facts, 360 B.C.-A.D. 2012 2012-04-20T21:47:00Z And the whys are those asked by theologians and philosophers as well as homicide detectives. Theater Review: ‘Grace,’ With Paul Rudd and Michael Shannon, at Cort Theater 2012-10-05T02:00:00Z I had already been reading the philosopher Amia Srinivasan in The London Review of Books, but there was something exhilarating about reading her at length in “The Right to Sex.” Times Critics Discuss 2021 in Books, From Breakout Stars to Cover Blobs 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z He was referring to José Ortega y Gasset, the liberal Spanish philosopher, who lived during the darkest years of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. The Worldly Digressions of Javier Marías 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Radical for 1784, German philosopher Immanuel Kant's argument in favour of freedom of speech — what he called the "public use of reason" — was specifically dependent on non-democratic and illiberal restrictions on all other civil freedoms. Why "free speech" needs a new definition in the age of the internet and Trumpist tweets 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z The book is inspired by the American travels of French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville. Winner of Booker Prize to be announced in London 2010-10-12T13:31:00Z Mr. Jhaveri quotes the philosopher Judith Butler and muses on “the ordinary ways that we think about humanization and dehumanization.” A Sci-Fi Showdown at the Met Museum’s Rooftop Garden 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Pierre Janet, a French philosopher and psychologist in the late 19th century, was pivotal in the development of what we call the subconscious. 'You think I'm mad?' – the truth about psychosomatic illness 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z The philosopher Hannah Arendt took up the subject in her book “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” which investigated the mystery of how ordinary Germans transformed into murderous Nazis. Robert Schenkkan's 'Building the Wall,' set in Trump's America, imagines the unimaginable 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Needless to say, that's not quite how Svendsen or the great German philosopher put it, but Heidegger did believe that what he termed "profound boredom" was a radical means of accessing the essence of being. One big yawn: boredom is not just a state of mind 2011-07-16T23:05:46Z In his recent book, “The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present,” the philosopher Byung-Chul Han writes that rituals “are to time what a home is to space: they render time habitable.” Before They Closed, Restaurants Opened Doors for Us 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. Walter Dean Myers, 73, a hero to young readers 2011-03-04T14:51:12Z His latest book, based on his graduate course on the psychology of happiness, is entitled Authentic Happiness in Seven Emails: A philosopher’s simple guide to the psychology of joy, satisfaction, and a meaningful life. 4 Ways of Choosing Happiness from Within 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z He remained a lifelong student of the highest caliber: co-teaching with philosophers, metabolizing esoteric doctrines, even directing the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Was Saul Bellow a Man or a Jerk? Both, a Monumental Biography Concludes 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z They perhaps agree with the American philosopher Robert Nozick that taxation is state theft, justified only for national security. These tax scams are all legal – that's morally repugnant 2012-06-21T19:29:01Z Mr. Coates also left Twitter recently, after he was publicly criticized by the Harvard philosopher and civil rights activist Cornel West, who called him “the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle.” Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Leaving The Atlantic 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z Drawing on the work of philosopher René Girard, he illustrates the link between the importance of ritualised sacrifice and the luminous, magnetic properties of the City on the Hill. Jerusalem, Jerusalem by James Carroll ? review 2011-08-05T21:54:01Z An entertaining philosopher of family, food and business, he's at his best when he's barely trying. Talking points 2013-01-23T12:17:25Z A soaring, azure Tree of Jesse climbs the southern wall, tracing Jesus’ terrestrial genealogy back to King David, framed by a ring of classical philosophers. Cultured Traveler: Romanian Church Murals Offer Colorful Lessons 2010-06-18T16:50:00Z There is connective tissue, and the riff does make sense, but at first you groan, for her dropping a lugubrious Austrian philosopher into the middle of a scene that derives its power from the quotidian. Patti Smith, Survivor 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z Also present was Martha C. Nussbaum, the philosopher known for her work across various fields including ethics, feminism and animal rights. Karlie Kloss Celebrates Thinkers 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z There are two main poles around which his ideas gravitate: crackpot philosophers and identity-shifters. Douglas Sirk’s Glorious Cinema of Outsiders 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z So, a good game not just for writers but for philosophers, too. David Foster Wallace’s Perfect Game 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Who are the philosophers, when you talk about influence or nation building or a genre building? "It's blood memory": Jurnee Smollett on how the horrors in "Lovecraft Country" are felt in real life 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z In her earlier books, “At the Existentialist Café” and “How to Live,” Bakewell introduced readers to the major questions facing the existentialist philosophers. 14 Books Coming in March 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z For me, Paris was literature, its heart and its capital — the city of exiled writers, cursed poets and existentialist philosophers. Read Your Way Through Paris 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z This was less an eye hug and more what philosophers call “bracketing.” Modern Love: Wearing Your Heart on Your Skin 2011-07-08T19:05:31Z But I want my clowns to be Dostoevskian, artists, shamans, philosophers. The wisdom of clowns 2011-03-17T07:59:00Z Thank you for this, but I couldn't help but challenge this: “Absolute homelessness is unbearable,” writes Leszek Kolakowski, a Polish philosopher living in London. Migrant, Refugee, Gay: You’re All Welcome at This Table 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z But the “world’s most influential living philosopher,” as Singer is often called, is a reluctant influencer. The Origin Story of Peter Singer’s Instagram Account 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z “Investigation of Horror,” which recreated a soiree of 1930s avant-garde philosophers, complete with real-time potato-peeling and intense debates, looked at times like a “Saturday Night Live” parody. Dark. Messy. Assaultive. Inscrutable. Even From Your Couch. 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z In conversation, Remy is slyly funny and soberly thoughtful — she pulled out a volume of the philosopher Jean Baudrillard so she could quote him at length. Pop Is Obsessed With What’s Next. So U.S. Girls Revisited Her Past. 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Safranski — the author of biographies of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche , and a philosopher himself — focuses on Goethe’s evolution as a thinker and artist at the expense of narrative excitement and anecdote. A new look at Goethe, a one-time cultural celebrity 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z In their concern for the ordinary and for the community through which they moved, philosopher and poet were following in the footsteps of an earlier English-language writer who wandered around the area with good purpose. Path to enlightenment: how walking inspires writers 2012-08-09T08:51:33Z Named after the Greek philosopher, Aristotle is a blind Muppet on "Sesame Street." 16 Muppets who moved to “Sesame Street," from Ji-Young to Abby Cadabby 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Crooked makes a passing reference in this song to Plato's philosophical text "Symposium," in which characters, including the philosopher Socrates, compete performing improvised speeches. Kanye may not like books, but hip-hop fosters a love of literature 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z If Wilde, "the first celebrity style guru", became the public face of aestheticism, as the V&A exhibition curator Stephen Calloway claims, then its resident philosopher was Walter Pater. Aesthetic values 2011-03-26T00:05:03Z She flirts with old flames and with Bertrand Russell, the philosopher, with whom she would have an affair. Time present and time past 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z He’s an amateur sociologist and a philosopher, opining on such topics as the origins of the “anti-urban, anti-statist” trucker culture and the transcendent pointlessness of material possessions. ‘The Long Haul’ Is a Trucker’s Slangy Tour of the Road 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Presumably Mr. Muntadas would favor a more humane, participatory democracy, but he proposes no practical — or visionary — alternatives to what the French philosopher and social critic Guy Debord famously called “the society of the spectacle.” Art Review: ?Muntadas: Information Space Control? in Bronx ? Review 2011-12-08T21:11:01Z Painters, Renoir concluded, “are the great philosophers of our time.” Dad Left a Big Impression: The Renoir Family Inheritance 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z She corresponded with the Enlightenment philosopher and satirist Voltaire, who called her “the shining star of the North.” A Hermitage Amsterdam Show Looks Closer at Catherine the Great 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z I don’t think any topic is more anxiety provoking, or more genuinely interesting to everyday people, than free will But then philosophers replace the interesting issues with technical, metaphysical issues. The truth about free will: Does it actually exist? 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images The great talkative peoples – such as the Greeks, or the French – according to that great talkative person, the Romanian philosopher EM Cioran, excel in the "technique of trifles". London Bridge in America: The Tall Story of a Transatlantic Crossing by Travis Elborough – review 2013-02-06T12:00:02Z A bronze statue of this French Renaissance philosopher — balding, with a beatific smile, cape draped over his shoulders, slender legs crossed — sits on the Rue des Ecoles in Paris, opposite the Sorbonne university. Why you should get lost in Europe 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z “The liberation of human attention may be the defining moral and political struggle of our time,” writes James Williams, a technologist turned philosopher and the author of a new book, “Stand Out of Our Light.” Finding It Hard to Focus? Maybe It’s Not Your Fault 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z Icarus was returning to earth, where, guided by Jean Wahl, he would become a philosopher; he would stay at the Hôtel des Grands Hommes. How Paul de Man hid his past 2014-03-30T15:00:00Z If not, that person "might, to put it crudely, become a British philosopher." New guardian of French tongue is (gasp!) British 2013-04-04T13:50:15Z As a philosopher — someone who cares deeply about intellectual honesty, verifiable evidence, critical thinking and moral thoughtfulness — I now find myself in direct opposition with many new atheist leaders. From the Enlightenment to the Dark Ages: How “new atheism” slid into the alt-right 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z Monk recalls meeting the philosopher Karl Popper with a view to writing his biography. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z Early in life, the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard was bestowed the nickname gaflen, or “fork,” for his talent at detecting weakness in others — and his taste for prodding at it. The Life of a Philosopher for Whom Life Was the Main Question 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z He brings up the work of the psychologist and philosopher William James, who “held that our life experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to.” Review: ‘The Attention Merchants’ Dissects the Battle for Clicks and Eyeballs 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Proposing sleepwalking as an optimal widespread societal condition, André Breton once asked, “When will we have sleeping logicians, sleeping philosophers?” Why I Am Teaching a Course Called “Wasting Time on the Internet” 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z From the American critics Said admired to the French theorists he deconstructed and the Arab philosophers he wished were better represented in Western syllabuses, “Places of Mind” traverses some rather dense territory. Review | ‘Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said’ explores the full spectrum of sources that shaped the scholar’s ideas 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z Among the lost souls, petty hustlers and philosophers waxing poetic was Ol’ Po’ Carl, a would-be chef and former baseball player. Tour the Old Steel Town at the Center of ‘Lackawanna Blues’ 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Under the guidance of a cynical philosopher, two young men test their girlfriends’ fidelity. Russia Locked Him Up. But He’s Directing an Opera 1,400 Miles Away. 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Crawford is a philosopher whose last book, “Shop Class as Soulcraft,” proposed that working with your hands could be an antidote to the sense of uselessness that haunts many knowledge workers. A New Theory of Distraction 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z For centuries philosophers have written weighty tomes about such matters. The Week Ahead: June 13 ? 19 2010-06-11T13:31:00Z Ralph Waldo Emerson famously linked “foolish consistency” and “the hobgoblins of little minds,” saying that such thinking was “adored by little statesmen and philosopher and divines.” Tim Berresheim's latest show at Meliksetian Briggs revels in the eclectic and the oddball 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Like any human being, there are many sides to Big Boi: hustler, poet, husband, father, heathen, philosopher. Big Boi’s Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors Is Visionary Hip-Hop 2012-12-12T18:30:17Z A welcome admission that even a much-feted moral philosopher may sometimes err. How to live well 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Wallace was a philosopher with a specialty in mathematical logic, and there’s something of the cool and detached logician, seeing patterns at a bright and pristine remove, in his way of speaking. David Foster Wallace Isn’t Just Like Us! 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z We are familiar, of course, with philosopher kings, but is there a new breed of philosopher curators? | Bernard-Henri Lévy on Art and Philosophy 2013-05-31T21:49:07Z A single paragraph might offer us reflections on psychotropic fungus, German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz and fiat money. Review | Can anyone figure out what’s happening in Ned Beauman’s new comic novel? 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Recall that the philosopher Hegel defined "genuine tragedies" as "conflicts between two rights." Life As We Know It: Katherine Heigl Crashes Again 2010-10-08T18:55:00Z When the news media provokes us with overwhelming amounts of information, Epictetus, another Roman philosopher, cuts through the noise: “If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters.” How would the Stoics cope today? | Ryan Holiday 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z He quotes Edmund Burke, an 18th-century Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher, as saying that Britain, far from being an island, was always part of Europe. Historians and Brexit 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Its mascot, Umberto, is “a philosopher who recalls the truth of the universe on the toilet seat”. From the joke shop to the high street: why poo is no longer taboo 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z He wrote: “Segregation, to use the terminology of the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, substitutes an “I-it” relationship for an “I-thou” relationship, and ends up relegating persons to the status of things.” Maurice S. Friedman, Biographer of Martin Buber, Dies at 90 2012-10-06T01:01:48Z Discuss problems that have engaged philosophers for minutes. Style Invitational Week 1091: Turn a good idea into a bad one with 1 weird trick! When they were finally together, they made a little more small talk — regarding the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus — and were soon bonding over a mutual love of cycling, camping, red meat and wine. Every Atom, Molecule and Cell Connected 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z “A beautiful credo, Mr. Punch! You are, as everybody says, a philosopher, a visionary, and a true disbeliever!” “Citizen Punch” 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z A sparkling man, still drawling in his native Texas accent, given to sudden, uproarious laughter and surprising citations from the philosophers he studied at Yale, Busby has seen a lot and remembers it all. The Last Living Bohemian in Chelsea Tells All 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Some 600 artists and philosophers gathered to consider how the world is perceived by the social media-savvy generation born in the 1980s. LaBeouf runs 'marathon' for art 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z There are overt nods to Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors, both with the elderly Jewish existentialist philosopher Josh is shooting for his film, and a climactic scene at an awards ceremony. While We're Young: Ben Stiller has a hipster replacement in brilliant comedy 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Lancaster Dodd, a homespun philosopher and cult leader in postwar America. The 10 best films of 2012, No 1 – The Master 2012-12-13T22:00:28Z As a doctoral student at Oxford, then the center of the philosophical universe, he studied with the eminent natural-language philosopher Gilbert Ryle but increasingly found himself drawn to a more scientific view of the mind. Daniel Dennett, Author of ‘Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking’ 2013-04-29T21:49:23Z Afterward, Little Edie, with her upside-down outfits, florid, looping drawl and naïf-savant proclamations, emerged as a campy philosopher and gay idol. G’night Forever, Little Edie! Grey Gardens Is Empty at Last. 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z In Poussin's painting Landscape with Diogenes, the ancient philosopher is depicted casting away his last possession, a drinking bowl. Less is more: the age of minimalism 2011-02-11T07:59:01Z PALMA, Majorca — A provocative theory in vogue among physicists and philosophers suggests that we humans are not experiencing, and have not ever experienced, reality. The Reality Behind ‘Below Deck’ 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z A friend of Dr Johnson told him he had tried to be a philosopher, but "cheerfulness kept breaking in", and so it is too with Reid. Nonsense by Christopher Reid – review 2012-09-28T21:55:02Z Mr. Swift’s narrative is elliptical — we get only the faintest hint of how Jane actually embarked on her career as a writer or came to marry an Oxford-trained philosopher. Review: Graham Swift’s ‘Mothering Sunday,’ a Haunting Day Forever Relived 2016-04-28T04:00:00ZThere’s a very good little book by the American philosopher Harry Frankfurt called “On Bullsh--.” He explains in this book the difference between truth and lies and bullsh--. Philip Pullman on what drew him back to the world of His Dark Materials 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z She would revive me, in a big way — the music, the things she said, the philosopher in her. Chaka Khan on Artistic Freedom, Her Side Hustles and Joni Mitchell 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z That big things might be made of smaller ones is not a new idea — natural philosophers proposed the existence of atoms some 2,500 years ago — and not necessarily high-tech. In the galleries: From the everyday to the fantastic 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z One day Rabelais heard God's laughter, Kundera fancies, and set the novel on its course, in opposition to thought as philosophers or theologians understand it, with its pursuit of a consistent truth. Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels seriously 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z That abandonment and attempt at recovery marked all the philosopher's subsequent love affairs. Alain Badiou: a life in writing 2012-05-18T21:55:11Z British philosopher Jeremy Bentham, a founder of utilitarianism, wrote in 1780: “The question is not: Can they reason? Nor:, Can they talk? But:, Can they suffer?” ‘As a carnist I’m conditioned to accept meat-eating is natural’ | Comment 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z The first known mention is in the 5th century B.C. by the Chinese philosopher Mozi. Staring Into the Soul of the Catskills Through a Pinhole 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z It concerns the Columbia University philosopher Sidney Morgenbesser, who was famous for quips and one-liners. The Strange Appeal of Perverse Actions 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z It was on the curriculum at my high school in Paris, but its image was pretty crusty – philosophers were greybeards who wrote convoluted sentences and looked as if they might need a good wash, right? Lessons from the ancient philosophers to help improve our lives today 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z Those who don’t learn history are doomed to repeat it, as philosopher George Santayana said. Perspective | The media is helping Trump turn the bogus ‘Obamagate’ into the 2020 version of Clinton’s emails 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z A more this-worldly religion such as Judaism is perfectly suited to a philosopher who made her name in The Fragility of Goodness by defending the practical ethics of Aristotle over the metaphysical supernaturalism of Plato. Martha Nussbaum and the new religious intolerance 2012-06-29T21:55:17Z That was a reference to the open letters of support and petitions from intellectuals and artists in France defending Mr. Daoud, including the philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy. An Algerian Author Fights Back Against a Fatwa 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z But he was also a TV star, he was a thinker, he was a philosopher, he was a political activist. Brash, Confident and Democratic: How Leonard Bernstein Symbolized America 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z A classicist tries to unravel the enigma of the Stoic philosopher who was the Roman emperor Nero’s adviser. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z As German philosopher Martin Heidegger taught us, our experience as humans beings is always rooted in our own reality, and what seems natural is always historical. Europe is not a secular paradise — and Americans should be careful when embracing this myth 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Fred Rogers was more than a moral compass and role-model: He was a philosopher and activist who possessed a well-defined political ideology. New Mister Rogers film downplays his radical edge: “His work was deeply political” 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Iyer, who has a gift for capturing the cadence of the young, charts the overlap between the philosophers he reveres and the juveniles he teaches. If Nietzsche Were in High School 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Annabel Lyon's acclaimed debut novel, The Golden Mean, took as its subject the philosopher Aristotle and his tutelage of Alexander the Great. The Sweet Girl by Annabel Lyon – review 2013-01-17T09:00:01Z He quotes the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s aphorism that “the limits of my language are the limits of my world.” Review | Can’t name that feeling? Try consulting ‘The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows’ 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z I’m not a philosopher, nor do I claim to know the answers to these questions — though I certainly have opinions. What Makes a Wine Great? It’s Not Just Old and Complex. 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Topping the list is the grandfatherly effigy of the influential British philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham — incorporating his skeleton. Real, or Too Real? A Dazzling Show Goes the Way of All Flesh 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z Over at the Unemployed Philosopher’s Blog, philosopher Daniel Mullin writes that, ”the contest between creationists and evolutionists is not really a debate about data. From Puritans to Ken Ham: The long history of creationism in America 2014-02-22T19:00:00Z His brother, a philosopher, maintains that memories are so often false that they cannot be trusted without independent verification. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes ? review 2011-07-26T16:15:00Z She is a philosopher of love, a comedian, a heartbroken waif and an artist beyond her years. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Vocals 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z “Having created the illusion of the superman,” the philosopher Simon Critchley wrote in his 2014 book “Bowie,” “he then popped it like a balloon.” Listening to David Bowie: A Critic’s Tour of His Musical Changes 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Statesman, philosophers, educators, teachers, scientists have been asking the ultimate why. Irwin Corey, comic who styled himself the World’s Foremost Authority, dies at 102 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z “As a philosopher, you want to protect thinking as something beautiful,” she said. Book Portrays Eichmann as Evil, but Not Banal 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z Stoic, philosopher, fantasist and eccentric, Cornelius — that’s his last name, nobody uses his first — absorbs his inevitable doom in such style that he makes you forget about your own. Theater Review: ‘Cornelius’ Is Revived at 59E59 Theaters 2013-06-12T21:15:07Z René Descartes, the 17th-century French philosopher, coined the phrase as a means of justifying reality. 10 Latin phrases people pretend to understand 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z Some philosophers argue that each individual has full ownership rights over their resources – and that a rich person’s only responsibility is to use their resources wisely. How philanthropy benefits the super-rich 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z The Stoic philosophers of ancient Greece offer a similar prescription, rooted in self-denial and rigorous control over one’s thoughts. Ode to joy: how to find happiness in balloons and rainbows 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z Is “whooshing” along with a crowd the philosophers’ cure for nihilism or just its expression? Books of The Times: The Classics as the Antidote to Modern Malaise 2011-01-04T01:18:40Z “Ancient philosophers and contemporary scientists agree that probably the key to happiness is strong relationships with other people,” she says. How to be alone 2012-08-04T23:30:00Z She constantly and easily drew analogies to the works and exploits of novelists, poets, painters, dukes, kings, generals and ancient Greek philosophers. World class: Remembering legendary travel writer Jan Morris 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z In the age they were made, philosophers debated endlessly about the relative merits of painting vs. poetry to recall the presence of an absent thing, especially a loved one. Analysis | At the Met, beautiful paintings that won’t love you back 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z Instead we adopt the insight of nearly all traditional societies: that social time is a recurring cycle in which events become meaningful only to the extent that they are what philosopher Mircea Eliade calls “reenactments.” Where did Steve Bannon get his worldview? From my book. 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Many Georgian scholars, beginning with the philosopher Ioane Petritsi in the 11th century, have likened the three voices of Georgian polyphony to the Holy Trinity. music: In Georgia, Sacred Chants Reverberate Once Again 2010-08-06T22:14:00Z The petition is posted on a Web site overseen by French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy. Cannes directors sign petition supporting Polanski 2010-05-13T14:14:00Z Cast members — a mix of classical philosophers and Renaissance savants — converse, argue, scribble, read and declaim on a sprawling, but unified, “set” framed by classical architecture. In the Virtual (and Actual) Footsteps of Raphael 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Stewart argues that America’s founders drew inspiration not so much from Christianity and British political theory but rather from ancient pagan philosophers like Lucretius, and from Spinoza’s concept of natural divinity. National Book Awards Nominees, Nonfiction 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z As it turns out, understanding 19th-century Danish philosophers is not the only miracle Heather is capable of. Review: In ‘The Gospel According to Heather,’ the Messiah Has Homeroom 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z Post your suggestions below for the best songs featuring well-known philosophers and we'll assemble the ones we like best in a playlist next week. Readers recommend: songs about philosophers 2012-11-15T22:00:00Z Mr. Romney’s speech was high-minded and flowing, quoting presidents and philosophers. A National Descent Into Trump’s Pants 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z The Chinese philosopher Confucius thought so some 2,500 years ago. Art Review: At China Institute, Envisioning Confucius, an Abstraction 2010-03-25T22:43:00Z A dead philosopher contemplates the image of a dead poet. Rebellious Rembrandt, Dutch explorer of the infinite 2011-01-11T15:26:42Z A bit of a philosopher, the man sounds bleakly apologetic about his line of work. 'Cartel Land' goes deep inside vigilantes' fight on both sides of Mexico-U.S. drug war 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z And this is just the one part of Leibniz's enormous legacy: the philosopher Stanley Rosen called him "the smartest person who ever lived". My hero: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz by Lee Smolin 2013-05-10T15:01:01Z Martin Heidegger: That Abe references Heidegger with derision, in the same breath as “fascism,” isn’t surprising given the German philosopher’s affiliation with the Nazi Party. A Handy Guide to the Philosophers Referenced in 'Irrational Man' 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z The four are characters in "The Good Place," a satirical comedy about an afterlife that’s best described as a mash-up of historic Christian notions of purgatory and French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre’s play No Exit. "The Good Place": Ethics comedy asks if there’s a second chance at life 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z PIB Argument: The Logical Version The logical version of the PIB argument, which is the one that philosophers usually favor, says that the argument for same-sex relationships makes an equally good case for PIB relationships. Same-sex marriage: They’ll just never get it 2013-03-10T13:01:00Z In 1998 Ian Hacking, a Canadian philosopher specialising in the science of memory, published Mad Travellers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illness. Le Premier Fugueur by Johan Furaker - review 2011-03-29T12:59:01Z In fact, the American philosopher Joseph Carens, author of “The Ethics of Immigration,” likens the current obsession with borders, in the U.S. and elsewhere, to feudalism. On this dark day for DACA consider what open borders really mean 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Almost all of the great philosophers — Socrates, Aristotle, the Stoics, Rousseau, Kant, Thoreau — were walkers whose ideas germinated only in motion. Two New Books Confront Nietzsche and His Ideas 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z As a narrator, Eli is a casual philosopher who takes in the glory and consequence of the smallest quotidian details, and his acute observations are often refracted through his singular lens of farce and surrealism. Review | ‘Boy Swallows Universe’ is a high-stakes coming-of-age story 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z I took a deep breath, looked at the drawing of the feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir hanging above my desk, and told myself that I didn’t need help. If a Rat Falls Into Your Bed, Call Your Lover’s Boyfriend 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Writing in The New York Times Book Review in 1984, the philosopher Richard Wollheim called Mr. Steinberg “one of the sharpest intellects working in the field of art history” but questioned his objectivity. Leo Steinberg, Adventurous Art Historian, Dies at 90 2011-03-14T23:19:13Z Locke was never truly revered as a philosopher, but he produced original research in the field of value theory, including, for example, on the role emotions play in the formation of values and opinions. The Philosopher Who Believed That Art Was Key to Black Liberation 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z And he has engaged with other leading thinkers like Jacques Derrida, becoming one of the most important literary critics and philosophers in his native Japan. Kojin Karatani Wins $1 Million Berggruen Prize 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z That time is relational and dynamic and that space arises from a network of relationships was articulated in the 17th century by a philosopher who was Newton's rival and intellectual opponent: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz. My hero: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz by Lee Smolin 2013-05-10T15:01:01Z What about women — "girls," "ladies" or "gals," as the Playboy philosopher still calls them — do they admire Hefner? A Hugh Hefner Documentary: Airbrushed 2010-07-31T06:45:00Z And Parks, though not a scientist or professional philosopher, proves to be a companionable guide, even if his book is more an appetizer than a main course. A Rose Is a Rose Is … Your Experience of a Rose? A Writer Plumbs Consciousness 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Older texts, including translations of the Greek philosophers, were copied, along with new works. Meet ‘The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu’ 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z My growing suspicion is that philosophers invented these terms for the same reason I use them: To make them seem smarter than they are, and to make the reader feel smarter than she is. Gene Weingarten: Admit it. You don’t know what ‘epistemological’ means either. 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z These poets are some of America’s pithiest great philosophers. A Poet’s Tale from Obama’s First Inaugural 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Indeed, someone who carries neat to-do lists in his breast pocket and a copy on his desk of Epictetus, the Greek philosopher who preached self-discipline. 2010-01-09T03:27:00Z In the late nineteen-eighties, the philosopher Jacques Derrida delivered a series of seminar lectures on the subject of friendship. What Jacques Derrida Understood About Friendship 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Writing of Saturnalia, Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger noted that “loose reins are given to public dissipation.” Analysis | Why do we kiss on New Year’s? 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z As art director he oversaw satiric covers critical of the C.I.A. and opposing the Vietnam War, and he persuaded Norman Rockwell to contribute a portrait of the peace activist and philosopher Bertrand Russell. Dugald Stermer, Illustrator and Ramparts Art Director, Dies at 74 2011-12-08T04:57:38Z In the mid-1800s, Libri pilfered tens of thousands of precious manuscripts, tomes and documents from Italian and French libraries, including 72 letters written by the great French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes. Descartes letter found by web surfer heads home to France 2010-06-22T15:04:00Z It depicted key elements in the life of the French mathematician and philosopher, including a Pascaline calculator and a prie-dieu prayer desk. Cultured Traveler: In Paris, Where Artisanship Becomes Art 2012-10-12T20:04:36Z The dialogue contrasts the views of two speakers: a philosopher and his acquaintance, the title character, an irreverent slacker who happens to be the famous composer’s nephew. ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ and ‘Witch’: Ambitious shows that miss the mark 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z According to the British Academy, Latin was used by scientists, diplomats, philosophers and lawyers for more than 1,000 years after the end of the Roman empire. Medieval Latin dictionary completed 2013-12-09T14:21:26Z Organisers hope to build on a successful festival celebrating the life and work of the 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes, who was from the area. Malmesbury bids to become UK's first 'philosophy town' 2010-10-17T23:01:00Z Mr. Skallas, who spends his work day reading contracts, does not see himself as a self-help figure or a philosopher. The Lindy Way of Living 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z One could easily imagine artists bristling at this noisy intrusion of philosophers into their creative space. | Bernard-Henri Lévy on Art and Philosophy 2013-05-31T21:49:07Z The French philosopher Roland Barthes had killed off the all-powerful author and let the rest of us be the true makers of meaning, even if that left it unstable. Photography’s Delightful Obsessives 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z “All adolescents are philosophers,” Chandra observes, “and all philosophers are adolescents at heart.” If Nietzsche Were in High School 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z There is rather less to be found on the thought and writing of the major natural philosophers of the period. Three New Books on the Predigital Technologies That Shaped Our World 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Some of the most intellectually respectable among our founding fathers were supremacists, as were many establishment scientists and philosophers in the 19th century. What is “white supremacy”? A brief history of a term, and a movement, that continues to haunt America 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z “He is a philosopher of international relations who has much to teach us about how the modern world works.” How Do You Explain Henry Kissinger? 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Polanski, who is under house arrest in his Alpine Swiss chalet, laid out his case against extradition on an online magazine run by one of his staunchest supporters, French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy. Polanski breaks silence over US extradition case 2010-05-02T23:16:00Z “A man’s character is his fate,” the Greek philosopher Heraclitus said. In ‘The Nixon Defense,’ John W. Dean Returns to Watergate 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z It’s a deliberately once-over-lightly way of proceeding, and professional philosophers and self-styled sophisticates will bail out before the second chapter. ‘The Road to Character,’ by David Brooks 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z The artist and philosopher Adrian Piper did a well-remembered performance piece inside the bar in 1970, walking around with a blindfold and earplugs in a place that was all about looking and listening. Revisiting Max?s, Sanctuary for the Hip 2010-09-03T15:19:00Z Even if I couldn’t take the history of architecture, or 20th-century European philosophers, I hoarded the syllabuses. A Lifetime of Reading Taught Min Jin Lee How to Write About Her Immigrant World 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z The philosopher Jacques Derrida might have said it is this very elusiveness — the sense that meaning can never be pinned down by language — that is Gorey’s overarching point. Nightshade Is Growing Like Weeds 2011-03-06T00:26:18Z “Because at the end of the day, really, he’s a philosopher,” Stipe continued. The Velvet Underground Meets Its Match in Todd Haynes 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z His school performance improved, and he enrolled in the Sorbonne, where, entranced by the philosopher Gaston Bachelard, he took a degree in philosophy and law. Michel Tournier, French Novelist Who Fused Myth and Philosophy, Dies at 91 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z The naturalist and philosopher once famously walked the 25 miles of beach connecting Provincetown to the tip of Cape Cod. A Critic of Technology Turns Her Gaze Inward 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z As one philosopher put it, being a militant atheist is like “sleeping furiously.” Militant atheism has become a religion 2013-03-25T01:00:00Z French philosopher Pierre Bourdieu, from whose theory this notion comes, talks of disembodied cultural capital – things, books, art. 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