A Letter to George W. Bush You see no one, you hear no one You are an important person! So important T.V. shows you every night, You hold the microphone And...
I gave up love being satisfied with the quiet of shadows And memories. Time was past, lost, moments exploded by the rain of bombs. At nightfall I don't brush...
LRB | Vol. 29 No. 12 dated 21 June 2007 | Terry Eagleton I Contain Multitudes Terry Eagleton Mikhail Bakhtin: The Word in the World by Graham Pechey ·...
"Sherry [Thomas Sheridan] is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity,...
Guardian (London) - July 7, 2007 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2120934,00.html> Only Pinter remains British literature's long and rich...
"I represent here the revolutionary workers of one of the great imperialist powers, the United States of America, which exploits and oppresses the peoples of...
The dead end kids..., 10 July 2007 Bored bourgeois dilettante and his bored faux-bohemian wife live out their empty, aristocratic dreams in an isolated castle...
"There is no need for any great penetration to see from the teaching of materialism on the original goodness and equal intellectual endowment of men, the...
"While Nietzsche's repudiation of hedonism is emphatic, he himself may be called a proponent of the Good Life. His earlier philosophy had put him into the...
From this it would seem that Nietzsche saw a person's passions as separate from his or her intrinsic life and something to be dominated, dominated by, or...
Not sure how you came to the conclusions of the first paragraph, Michael. ... From: michael et al To: philosophicalcreativity@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday,...
LRB | Vol. 29 No. 14 dated 19 July 2007 | Jeremy Harding Through the Trapdoor Jeremy Harding Most of the expatriates in France who had to run for their lives...
What bourgeois thinkers mean when they call for unfettering the production process is pretty well summed up by Benjamin Franklin: "Remember that time is money....
How many times do we hear about Ford producing cars or things like swimwear making one sexy? Things only appear to be the creators of the world when the world...
"The ascetic, though lacking scepter and crown, seemed on the most powerful of men to Nietzsche" "one must consider the man who is strong enough to maintain...
Marx wrote: In fact, the realm of freedom actually begins only where labour which is determined by necessity and mundane considerations ceases; thus in the...
"The means which nature employs to bring about the development of innate capacities is that of antagonism within society, in so far as this antagonism becomes...
"The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with...
"The expropriation of the immediate producers was accomplished with merciless Vandalism, and under the stimulus of passions the most infamous, the most sordid,...
"That man is free by Nature is quite correct in one sense; viz., that he is so according to the Idea of Humanity; but we imply thereby that he is such only in...
... ********************* One key to Nietzsche passes through the Marquis de Sade, at least that's my opinion. I think Nietzsche had familiarized himself with...
"Above all we must avoid postulating 'society' again as an abstraction vis-a-vis the individual. The individual is the social being. His manifestations of life...
Brussels during the Spring of 1846.... a report of one meeting at which a furious quarrel occurred between Marx and Weitling. We learn that Marx, pounding his...
"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction,...
Must admit that the gleam of thought flashing across my inner mind was that this is a load of gushing sentimentality. Taking the quotes first line to heart I...
By MERVYN ROTHSTEIN Published: July 30, 2007 Ingmar Bergman, the “poet with the camera” who is considered one of the greatest directors in motion picture...