Word: theodor
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...fall into the curious netherworld of extra-academic literary theory. They are the last, depleted descendants of what used to be called aesthetics, the branch of philosophy that theorized the human response to works of art. For most intents and purposes, aesthetics collapsed in 1970 under the weight of Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory. What's left is books like How Fiction Works--which is, oddly, a delight, but not for the reason it's supposed...
...John Linnell, both 48--may have toughened their hides in the same unglamorous venues that all indie groups do, but they brought with them a gentler sensibility. Flansburgh once worked in the art departments of various educational publishers and was struck by the creative types he encountered there, particularly Theodor Geisel--or Dr. Seuss. "He was clearly writing within his own aesthetic," says Flansburgh. "He was writing for himself, and that seems like such a good idea...
...style that predominates in current high-art festival films (ones, by the way, that rarely get much exposure in U.S. movie houses) is minimalist. Based on the works of early masters like Carl-Theodor Dreyer and Robert Bresson, it follows certain rules, as restrictive as any Mennonite edicts: pare movie technique down to its essentials; show characters behaving, however mutely, rather than acting; make the viewer work for their epiphanies. This style has been responsible for many small, lugubrious films and -from directors who know how to make more or less -a few masterpieces. Silent Light is one of them...
...PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC, Carl Theodor Dreyer...
...have someone who knows the debates and writing of that period exceptionally well.” Hall praised the breadth of Rosen’s intellectual interests, which has produced work on Georg Hegel and Immanuel Kant as well as more recent thinkers such as Theodor Adorno. At Harvard, Rosen will teach courses on Marxism and contemporary continental thought. He said he sees himself as helping to maintain a cross-Atlantic cultural exchange. “Being able to contribute to an American understanding of European tradition of thought at a time when clearly misunderstandings between Europe and America...