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Cavell, who came to Harvard in 1963, teaches the spring term of Humanities 5, Phil. 127 (The Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein), and Philosophy 265, a on seminar aesthetics. he has taught Philosophy 190, a course on the philosophy of religion and he will probably conduct a freshman seminar next year on the aesthetics of the cinema...
...passage hammers home a conclusion with: "In the thirty-first place . . ." Another problem is Lonergan's disinterest in hurrying his ideas into print, or giving them wide circulation. Many of his most important lectures exist only in Latin mimeographed notes made by his students; like the late Ludwig Wittgenstein of Cambridge, his reputation rests on the memories and convictions of his peers, a scattering of essays and book reviews, and one authentically towering masterpiece: a study of human understanding, called Insight, published...
...Manhattan, Johns surrounds himself with art works of his friends, from Marcel Duchamp's Dada gimcracks to Andy Warhol's soup boxes, which he uses in lieu of extra furniture. He is a chess player and keeps a library substantial in such stiff favorite reading as Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus-Logicos Philosophi-cus. Johns also keeps on hand an inexhaustible supply of beer, which, in a way, has crept into his work...
...Richardson (Fine Arts 274) Rainer Maria Rilke (German 269) Friedrich Schiller (German 113) William Shakespeare (English 124, English 229) Edmund Spenser (English 222) Jonathan Swift (English 247) Terence (Philosophy 265a) Thucydides (Greek 106a) Tibullus (Classinal Philology 261a) Leo Tolstoy (Slavic 157) Ivan Turgenev (Slavic 158) Virgil (Latin 106a) Ludwing Wittgenstein (Philosophy...
Paolozzi also reads the analytic philosophy of the late Ludwig Wittgenstein, an eccentric Cambridge professor who, in brief, believed that what in logic was nonsense could be meaningful to man. The artist has made multicolored silk screens based on collages following Wittgenstein, but that is only half his homage. His cool sculpture, welded collages made of objects that do not exist, are themselves contemplative nonsense. Their aim in art, as Wittgenstein defined his in philosophy, is "to show the fly the way out of the fly bottle...