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December 13, 2023
Appendix 3: Quotations on German anti-Semitism [Nietzsche and the Nazis]
[This is Appendix 3 of Nietzsche and the Nazis. Sources for the quotations are at the end of this post.] Appendix 3: Quotations on German anti-Semitism Martin Luther (1483-1546): “The Jews deserve to hang on gallows, seven times higher than ordinary thieves.” And: “We ought to take revenge on the Jews and kill them.”[189] Immanuel …
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Eugène Delacroix | “Liberty Leading the People” (1830) | Newberry on Great Art series
An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry is an avant-garde figurative painter, writer, and teacher promoting evolutionary flourishing through his work. He does this through advances in color theory, body language, symbolism, and composition. Michael is the author of two books released in 2021: Evolution Through Art and Newberry …
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December 12, 2023
Haters
I’m all confused. The hot-headed Nietzsche’s startling line from his 1887 Genealogy of Morals has always stuck with me: “the truly great haters in world history have always been priests.” That’s from the First Essay, Section 7, in the context of his analysis of slave morality born of ressentiment. But now I read that, according …
December 10, 2023
This year’s Turner Prize for art, yawn
The piece is broadly Postmodernist and specifically Symbolist, as it is recognizable objects (traffic barriers, flags, police tape) that are chosen, placed in a stylized space (gallery, prize competition) and with some textual suggestions (“austerity,” “Brexit,” “pandemic,” “hostile immigration policy”) so the viewer can infer the intended negative message about the state of the culture. …
December 6, 2023
Rattlesnake TV interview of Stephen Hicks
What does it mean to be a philosopher in the modern era?What made you decide on Philosophy?Religion-friendly philosophies contrasted to Science-friendly philosophies.Both contrasted to Skeptical-negative philosophies.What is Postmodernism, and why do some people become Postmodernists? Related: Is Postmodernism neo-Marxist? | Open College No. 23 | Stephen Hicks
December 4, 2023
Texts in Philosophy — late 2023 additions
For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. Francis Bacon, The Great Instauration (1620). The New Organon (1620). Jacques Derrida, “Cogito & The History of Madness” (1963). Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Vol. 1 (1976). Werner Sombart, Chapter 1 of Merchants and Heroes (1915). Voltaire, Letters on England …
December 3, 2023
Duchamp’s Urinal as a Double Scam?
Darkly amusing: Marcel Duchamp may have swiped the piece that made the 20th-century’s ‘conceptual’ [more accurately: ‘anti-conceptual’] and postmodern art world giddy: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddes... Related: My “Why Art Became Ugly” article, explaining the evolution and devolution of high art’s variants during the 1900s The article was first published in 2004, based on a 2003 lecture in …
December 2, 2023
Texts in Philosophy — late 2023 additions
For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. Francis Bacon, The Great Instauration (1620). The New Organon (1620). Jacques Derrida, “Cogito & The History of Madness” (1963). Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Vol. 1 (1976). Werner Sombart, Chapter 1 of Merchants and Heroes (1915). Voltaire, Letters on England …
November 29, 2023
Eugène Delacroix | “Odalisque” (1825) [Newberry on Great Art series]
An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry is an avant-garde figurative painter, writer, and teacher promoting evolutionary flourishing through his work. He does this through advances in color theory, body language, symbolism, and composition. Michael is the author of two books released in 2021: Evolution Through Art and Newberry …
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November 28, 2023
Music-loving Soviets in Vienna, 1945
From Richard Osborne’s biography Herbert von Karajan, on an event in war-torn Vienna as it was struggling back to life after a cold winter in the last stage of World War Two: “Then the Russians arrived. For three weeks in April 1945, Russian soldiery ran amok in and orgy of pillage and rape, before Stalin …
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