Philosophy
Suppose you're wandering around an art museum and you stumble upon a suicidal hottie who's read a bit too much Sartre or Camus for her own good and who's more than overwhelmed with existential angst.
If there's no hope of talking her out of her suicidal despair, what should you do? In this hilarious clip, Woody Allen teaches us that desperate times call for desperate measures and quick thinking :)
At least he didn't find her in Franz Kafka's International Airport :)
Hat tip to Tony!
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- Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis
130 years ago today, in a world which no longer could be seriously understood as the effect or providence of the deliberate choice of a deity with a comprehensible, or even a coherent plan, one of the first men to viscerally understand and feel the essence...
- Star Wars - Existentialist Edition
I don't know exactly what French-speaking existential philosophers like Jean-Paul Sartre or Albert Camus would have thought about films like Star Wars... and while I can see some respects in which the movies deal with philosophical issues, my guess...
- Lucy Lawless [xena] Reads Sartre's "no Exit"
Uh, okay, this is different. From PEL [Partially Examined Life]... Mark Linsenmayer and Wes Alwan are joined by real actresses Lucy Lawless (Xena, Battlestar Galactica, Parks & Recreation, etc.) and Jaime Murray (Defiance, Dexter, Warehouse 13,...
- Franz Kafka...existentialism...birthday Today
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- Camus And A Point Of View--40 Years Past
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Philosophy
Picking Up an Existentialist Babe
Suppose you're wandering around an art museum and you stumble upon a suicidal hottie who's read a bit too much Sartre or Camus for her own good and who's more than overwhelmed with existential angst.If there's no hope of talking her out of her suicidal despair, what should you do? In this hilarious clip, Woody Allen teaches us that desperate times call for desperate measures and quick thinking :)
At least he didn't find her in Franz Kafka's International Airport :)
Hat tip to Tony!
.
- Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis
130 years ago today, in a world which no longer could be seriously understood as the effect or providence of the deliberate choice of a deity with a comprehensible, or even a coherent plan, one of the first men to viscerally understand and feel the essence...
- Star Wars - Existentialist Edition
I don't know exactly what French-speaking existential philosophers like Jean-Paul Sartre or Albert Camus would have thought about films like Star Wars... and while I can see some respects in which the movies deal with philosophical issues, my guess...
- Lucy Lawless [xena] Reads Sartre's "no Exit"
Uh, okay, this is different. From PEL [Partially Examined Life]... Mark Linsenmayer and Wes Alwan are joined by real actresses Lucy Lawless (Xena, Battlestar Galactica, Parks & Recreation, etc.) and Jaime Murray (Defiance, Dexter, Warehouse 13,...
- Franz Kafka...existentialism...birthday Today
Much admired by the counter culture of the 60s...Existential representation by Franz Kafka. The Writer's Almanac... Today is the birthday of Franz Kafka, born in Prague (1883). He was unhappy for most of his life: terrified of his tyrannical father,...
- Camus And A Point Of View--40 Years Past
Many have an aversion to the existential philosophy [popular in the 1960s] that stated among many other things that the universe had no purpose and that the individual must make sense of it the best he can. "Matt Weinstock, Jan. 9, 1960" by Larry Harnisch...