Articles tagged "philosophy"

Column: Pop Goes Philosophy

Captain Obama and the Final Frontier

by George Reisch

[15.Sep.09] :. Obama's four-year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new kinds of political confusion; to boldly go where no rational health-care reformer has gone before.

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Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar

by Rachel Balik

[26.Aug.08] :. Many who feel that philosophy is not for them, or is incredibly esoteric, will soon realize it’s as natural a commentary on our lives as jokes about boobs are.

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Hitchcock and Philosophy by David Baggett and William A. Drumin [Editors]

by David Sterritt

[22.Aug.07] :. To borrow a phrase from a filmmaker friend of mine, these books are ontic antics with a vengeance.

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The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe by Michael Frayn

by Bernard Jacobson [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[3.Aug.07] :. The Human Touch is the latest in a series of blockbuster volumes in which writers from whom you might expect something different have taken on the cosmos, whether conceived physically or in intellectual terms.

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The Beatles and Philosophy by Michael Baur and Steven Baur [Editors]

by Zeth Lundy

[12.Apr.07] :. Perhaps Lennon's pop-song gibberish happens to have a fluke connection with Hindu philosophy, but it seems irresponsible to make intentional bedfellows of the two.

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The Death of Jean Baudrillard Did Not Take Place

by G. Christopher Williams

[30.Mar.07] :. The controversial French philosopher's legacy has been tarnished by reductionist readings of his work, generated precisely by the tendencies of the mass media he sought to illuminate.