in film making that reinstated the problem of identity of the Self that had been a dominant theme first at the time of the birth of film, that is, the turn of the twentieth century, and secondly with an even more vigorous force, after the Second WW during the wave of existentialism. Th...
“I make all my movies about pretty much the same thing. It’s ultimately death and being alone. It’s existentialism. The meaning of life. All of those big things that would seem obnoxious if I went on about them. And a lot of my characters go through this: There’s an inciting ev...
Such an analytical project was already attempted by philosophers of enlightenment, romanticism, phenomenology, existentialism, and structuralism. My non-analytical presentation is what you would expect from a journeyman-poet: An Intuitive Mélange. But in defense of intuition, cognitive science tells a ...
I can’t, for example, really tolerate graveyards. I hate zombie things, and I have a bit of a discomfort around, “old” things. But I like Camus and existentialism. It terrifies the shit out of me, but not in that cold, creeping way a graveyard does. Other things I’ve read ...
An update on my previous post. To recap, I thought I’d found two independent sources for the legend that on 21 February 1942, in the middle of the ‘cable war’ with Churchill about where returning Australian troops were to be sent, John Curtin went missing and, in the words of Peter...
PremiumSimone de BeauvoirFeminismExistentialism 1340 Words 6 Pages Powerful Essays Read More Simone De Beauvoir Feminism Thewomanis a human being with sexuality just as man‚ the independentwomanrefuses to be tagged just for her simple role of female and‚ at the same time‚ she is not will...
If you want to write fiction about God or if you want to write about Philosophy or Existentialism or Buddhism or any other isms and ideologies, please don't use technical terms and explain to your readers the tenants of your ideology. You'll bore us all and convince no one. ...
take hold of it; he dealt with experiential existence itself. He is interested in the ‘how’ instead of the ‘what’ that explains the ‘how’; his is an existentialism of action and applied choice. Kierkegaard expressed this need for action pre-empting Nietzsche and Camus in his jou...
16:20 Sartre’s being-in-itself and being-for-itself, or predetermination and consciousness 18:38 The philosophy of existentialism: existing in a situation as in the fabric of life, which is not defined by personal qualities 20:25 Non-narrative shots from Shpalikov’s films: scenes from I...
aThe founder of Existentialism is 20th-century French Existentialist Sartre. In his works,we see how the words nausea and anguish are use respectively for the individual’s recognition of the pure contingency of the universe and for the total freedom of choice that confronts the individual at ever...