Word: weltanschaung
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...history does not exist has been around for a while--Henry Kissinger '50, for example, wrote an undergraduate thesis on the subject. As a genuine social democrat and a favorite of the left, Rifkin backs himself into a corner with his entropic world view. Why should we accept his weltanschaung instead of Plato's? What do we have to gain by accepting Rifkin's view when, as he says, progress is impossible? The author's blend of cold reality and passionate rhetoric does not sway us. Instead, he leaves us hanging, frustrated by unfulfilled expectations. Although Entropy tries to respond...
...remember how in Michael Powell's Peeping Tom the killer didn't get off just by murdering women but by filming their deaths and playing them back again and again. What happens when our minds becomes 3-D movie cameras and the aesthetic of the horror film becomes our weltanschaung...
...remember how in Michael Powell's Peeping Tom the killer didn't get off just by murdering women but by filming their deaths and playing them back again and again. What happens when our minds becomes 3-D movie cameras and the aesthetic of the horror film becomes our weltanschaung...
...remember how in Michael Powell's Peeping Tom the killer didn't get off just by murdering women but by filming their deaths and playing them back again and again. What happens when our minds becomes 3-D movie cameras and the aesthetic of the horror film becomes our weltanschaung...
...believe in an absurdist view of the universe--he clearly does. He just doesn't believe in writing a play about it. His focus is not on the ideas themselves, which are, as Terry should be the first to see, now "commonplace," but rather on the effects of this Weltanschaung on the psychology of the artist...