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How does the sensual appear in DaVinci’s Last Supper and why is the perspective such a spectacularly powerful element of the drama?

I remember reading a description by an art critic of a work of abstract art that consisted of a series of geometric shapes. The critic argued that the...

The technical has to do with the applied, and the applied is a reshuffling within an extant theoretical edifice. Steve Jobs introduced brilliant techn...

You’ve explained what it is but not why it is. What changes in the way artists see and feel the world was it trying to convey? Significant movements i...

Are you saying that all of the philosophy that came after Hume, as a critical reaction to his thinking and the era he belonged to, was wrong about him...

Here’s an argument. It is well documented that many dealers, critics and artists found strong consonances between Kant’s ideas and modern art, particu...

From Mark Chatham: “ The well-documented references to Immanuel Kant in the literature surrounding the advent and ongoing critical reception of Cubism...

Recognizing that thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. This is a realization you will not find in Descartes throu...

I dont agree with any philosophers, but I think they all have valid ideas. Put differently , I think the history of philosophy can be understood as a ...

One can’t understand his theory of art without first understanding his larger philosophical project, becuase the two are co-determinative. You said yo...

You said his theory of art was unoriginal, and his theory of art is derived from his main thesis, Will to Power.

That explains why you think he’s unoriginal

Are you familiar with the work of art critic Clement Greenberg, a promoter of abstract expressionism? I believe he was a Kantian. It’s interesting tha...

Well, we are 230 years removed from the 1790’s. Our best contemporary philosophy will probably look as idiotic a couple of centuries from now.

Do you think Nietzsche’s ideas as a whole have been absorbed, at least by most atheistic thinkers?

“Schopenhauer made use of the Kantian version of the aesthetic problem, – although he definitely did not view it with Kantian eyes. Kant intended to p...

Still is, at least the way Nietzsche meant it.

Being directed is being affected by what directs one’s attention. This interest in the matter, as a function of expectation on the one hand and what a...

All major figures in Continental philosophy since 1800 are Kantian in a certain sense, and generally acknowledge that fact

Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, for starters.

But the term ‘revolutionary’ is still quite commonly used in science and philosophy. Is this different from ‘radical’?

Who would you use it for? A scientist? Technologist? Political theorist? Are radical politics not really radical? Are Kuhn’s scientific revolutions re...

I dont know about that. Of course there is always a history to be referred back to , but philosophy is transformative rather than cumulative.

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Here’s one source. Sounds like it relies on formalistic notions of art as aesthetic object. For Nietzsche the art would be in the creative act, not th...

Heidegger follows Nietzsche’s thought of eternal return from Zarathustra through his last writings and concludes that will to power , eternal return a...

You sound like you’re not certain what to make of Nietzsche, or at least his notion of the eternal return. So let me try and approach this discussion ...

What about your own personal philosophy? Not sure if you have one? And even if you do, certainly not everyone has one and , more importantly, very few...

It doesn’t have to be blown up. Will to Power is already self-immolating. Heidegger says "moving out beyond itself", the "opening up and supplementing...

Everyone is reading Nietzsche through someone else , whether that someone is themselves or another philosopher. We never have access to the ‘real’ Nie...

I follow Deleuze’s reading of Nietzsche: “Repetition in the eternal return never means continuation, perpetuation or prolongation, nor even the dis­co...

And neither is there any repetition of the past. In this sense the eternal return of the same is a misnomer. It is, fundamentally, the eternal return ...

Is this deciding in favor of growth on the part of the intellect a rational process?

Nietzsche writes that the intellect is merely the instrument of the drives: The fact “that one desires to combat the vehemence of a drive at all, howe...

As long as we keep in mind that Will to Power is itself a drive. As such it does not return to the ego a command over the will, as if the ego is only ...

We probably would if you are comfortable with postmodern readings of him.

Or you could look at the eternal return this way: “But the eternal return must not be understood simply as a doctrine in Nietzsche's philosophy. Rathe...

Have you read Deleuze? Do you think he is a good interpreter of Nietzsche?

Yes, this was my opinion: Dan W Smith writes: “… for Nietzsche, it is our drives that interpret the world, that are perspectival—and not our egos, not...

What do you suppose the ‘self’ meant to Nietzsche? A unitary self-aware ego? Or a disjunctive community of warring drives?

Let’s bring this down to earth a bit. Do you think Nietzsche can be called an atheist? And what is left of the notion of religion if the ‘Good’ is inc...

We have to begin by understanding the relation between the drives, values and knowledge for Nietzsche. All knowledge is perspectival, and all perspect...

Sorry it wasnt clear, but I meant to attribute these paragraphs to Nietzsche in BG&E, which is why I began my comment with: ‘In Beyond Good and Evil, ...

In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche argues that religion has value as a means to an end , but not as sovereign. That is , not for its own sake, such as...

He certainly did like to throw around words like ‘gods’, but in what sense is becoming and self-overcoming religion? He did not simply encourage peopl...

That’s even better.

Jagger wanted to be Satan. Morrison wanted to be Jesus.

Each band borrowed from the others. Paul McCartney was blown away after hearing Pet Sounds , while Brian Wilson was trying to capture Specter’s Wall o...

Foundations won’t get you where you want to go in terms of improving your understanding of and relationships with other people and yourself. They will...

I recognize there are widely varying readings of Nietzsche. I prefer postmodern interpretations of him like those of Deleuze, Heidegger and Derrida. T...