Word: dialecticism
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Pascal's Wager proposes that the promise of infinite gain makes belief in God's existence worthwhile no matter how small the possibility might seem, and that life should be devoted to renouncing the endless contradictions and passions of self which interfere with maintaining a consciousness of God. Jean-Louis...
Through confusing academic discourse Rohmer leaves you with a murky residue, what Godard has called "a fabric of contradictions" between consciousness and action. Like See You At Mao, Ma Nuit Chez Mand is about "finding the right line" through the chaos, be it political or moral. Both films, however, resist...
Undergraduates usually first meet Epps when they approach his office with a few typical problems: requests for moving off-campus, all sorts of special room or board considerations, special arrangements for independent study work, and academic problems in general all lead students to see Epps. Epps acknowledges that his office...
PEOPLE like Godard say no. Not only does the film push a limited and pretty disgusting view of man, but a weighty style forces it on you, oppresses you with it, so that you leave the theatre with sad masses knowing the Truth as dictated by Ingmar Bergman. Godard's...
Essentially, Women in love, the novel, is a partially dramatized dialectic on the meaning of sex, love, and marriage, Lawrence's characters-Gerald, a machine-driven industrialist (played by Oliver Reed in the movie); Gudrun (Glenda Jackson), a willful, aspiring artist; Ursula (Jennie Linden), her simpler, more sensual, sister; and...