Philosophy
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 is that the existentialists might have thought the famous trilogy indulged in too much mauvaise foi (bad faith) for their taste.
But what if the franchise were written as an existentialist film? This is what it might have looked like :)
For more, both serious and funny stuff on existentialism, click the tag.
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- The Existentialist Couple: Sartre And Beauvoir
.It is interesting to know that Jean-Paul Sartre, the famous existentialist philosopher and political activist, failed in his first attempt at his agrégation, a form of exit exam which qualifies a person for a teaching post, in 1928. Failing this was...
- Why Absurd Sisyphus?
The blogging name Absurd Sisyphus is a mixture of two philosophical ideas from the French existentialist philosopher Albert Camus. He was writing in the time around the second world war up until his death in a car crash, early January 1960. He was an...
- 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,...
- Jean-paul Sartre..."in Camera" [aka "no Exit"]
New Horizons... The original name of the play in French is “Huis Clos” or In Camera, which means a private discussion going on behind closed doors, as in a legal situation when deliberation goes on before a sentence is passed. In its English translation,...
- 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...
Philosophy
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 is that the existentialists might have thought the famous trilogy indulged in too much mauvaise foi (bad faith) for their taste.But what if the franchise were written as an existentialist film? This is what it might have looked like :)
For more, both serious and funny stuff on existentialism, click the tag.
.
- The Existentialist Couple: Sartre And Beauvoir
.It is interesting to know that Jean-Paul Sartre, the famous existentialist philosopher and political activist, failed in his first attempt at his agrégation, a form of exit exam which qualifies a person for a teaching post, in 1928. Failing this was...
- Why Absurd Sisyphus?
The blogging name Absurd Sisyphus is a mixture of two philosophical ideas from the French existentialist philosopher Albert Camus. He was writing in the time around the second world war up until his death in a car crash, early January 1960. He was an...
- 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,...
- Jean-paul Sartre..."in Camera" [aka "no Exit"]
New Horizons... The original name of the play in French is “Huis Clos” or In Camera, which means a private discussion going on behind closed doors, as in a legal situation when deliberation goes on before a sentence is passed. In its English translation,...
- 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...