Wednesday, June 22 2011
To Be Or Not to Be Isn’t the Only Question: The Nature of Being in ‘Synecdoche, New York’
By desperately trying to create an authentic piece of art, Caden Cotard, the central character in Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York, ends up dooming himself to live what Heidegger calls an inauthentic life.
Tuesday, May 8 2007
High-Minded Bullshit
Philosophy itself is often regarded as part and parcel with the bullshit of popular culture. But it is philosophers who been trying to determine exactly what bullshit is and how it works its magic.
