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...parse out the details of the arguments. Taylor is justified, then, in the fast-paced aspect of her endeavor—with only 10 minutes to talk through their ideas, none of these thinkers are about to make a philosophical break-through. Ronell tells a helpful anecdote about Heidegger??s abandonment of what he believed to be institutionalized philosophy in favor of simply thinking. Indeed, Taylor’s film presents nothing like a close reading of “Being and Time,” but it does rouse its viewers to consider various takes on what...
...even when people’s eyes would glaze over and they would start staring out into a nameless abyss. Now, even I am sick of hearing about Edwardian drama, to say nothing of my poor, beleaguered roommate, who is writing her thesis on far more practical things, like Heidegger??s girlfriend. My thesis will be done in a week, at which point I will return to railing against the evils of leggings. Until then, I’m no better than the rest of you, so instead I offer: THREE TIPS ON THESIS FASHION/SURVIVAL 1) Brush your...
...deeply troubling and precarious, precisely because philosophy will always hear the siren song of Truth, the irrepressible desire to be universal. Thus we get Hegel’s “absolute,” Nietzsche’s “will to power,” and Heidegger??s “being.” For this reason, Rorty believes that philosophy is done best in the context of the novel, because the novel seeks to express solely the contingent. Proust is his ideal, because Proust wanted to create his paradise out of contingency...
After a stint as a lecturer at MIT and publishing an acclaimed translation of Heidegger??s “Vom Wesen des Grundes,” Malick earned an MFA at the American Film Institute Conservatory and directed his first film, a comedy short about two bank-robbing cowboys called “Lanton Mills.” He simultaneously worked as a writer and script doctor on several large-scale productions before setting out on his own as a director, disillusioned with Hollywood studio employment...
...unique style Malick developed in those three films draws heavily on the philosophic training he received at Harvard. Like Heidegger??s archetype of the human as a being who simply “exists,” with no direction or motivation, Malick’s American everymen and everywomen drift from scene to scene, through non-linear plots and rich landscapes...