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This is the movie version, and it cleaves as tenaciously to the facts as any star biopic from Hollywood's heady days. Fassbinder built his reputation with films (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The Marriage of Maria Braun) that played high-voltage melodrama as deadpan farce; here he has turned Lale's tale into what Hanna Schygulla, who impersonates her in the film, calls "a Nazi fairy tale." As the new star gorges on her celebrity, making love to her mirror image in a palatial white bedroom, her countrymen starve...
...torturous business, this effort to "discover the mind," as the prolific Princeton philosopher-photographer-literateur Walter Kaufmann makes clear in this second volume (on Nietzshe, Heidegger and Buber) of his trilogy on the roots of contemporary social philosophy (the first dealt with Goethe, Kant and Hegel). Nietzsche, Goethe, Freud, respectively philosopher, poet and psychiatrist, have contributed, each in his own fashion, to our understanding of ourselves...
...Python's three-night filmed-and-recorded stint at the Bowl, I was not alone. Dozens of Hollywood denizens entered their seats singing the "Lumberjack" song, many wore knotted Gumby hankies on their heads, and several hundred of us later raised our voices in the Philosopher's Song ("Emmanuel Kant was a real pissant...
...claustrophobic tumble of his brain, the world has a habit of collapsing into melancholy. Poor overread Albert warns himself about Keats' "egotistical sublime." His rich interior is forever ababble with Kant and Schopenhauer and his own obsessive, bewildered mutterings. A distant descendant of Leopold Bloom, cousin to the anguished intellectual comics of Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and even Woody Allen, Albert negotiates a shambling, rueful passage through his mid-40s. He has made Who's Who in America (a New York magazine writer and editor), but "lately he has the feeling that he is not so much pursuing...
...after Kant supposedly demolished it, until Norman Malcolm, then at Cornell, suddenly "claimed in a 1960 article that...