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Nietzschean Creation of Moral Values and Its Relevance to His Vitalist Philosophy
The significance of Thus Spoke Zarathustra in terms of Nietzsche’s moral philosophy‒ignoring whether we are allowed to introduce his overall accounts regarding and seemingly focusing on moral values under the unified title of “his moral philosophy” or not‒is that along with the journey of Zarathustra, Nietzsche actually attempts to provide one with the qualifications of…
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The Priority Arguments of Aristotle Regarding Actuality over Potentiality
Aristotle, upon introducing the wisdom as “knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes[1]” and the Metaphysics, or the First Philosophy as he names it, as “a kind of a science whose remit is being qua being and the things pertaining to that which is per se[2]”, commits himself to the study of substance.…
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Averroes on “Mind”
Averroes (1126-1198), known as the “Commentator” in Islamic philosophy and as the most extremist Aristotelian in the Islamic world, provides us with detailed comments on Aristotle’s work, De Anima (On the Soul), in his book Long Commentary on the Soul. The parts where he focuses on the Third Book of De Anima; he, rather than…
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What Do We Do With People When We Make Documentary?
Nichols (2001), belgeselin etiği sorunsalını en basit ve çarpıcı şekliyle yeniden yorumlar: “What do we do with people when we make documentary?” (belgesel yaparken insanlarla ne yaparız?). İnsanların gerçekle kurdukları, bazen filmcinin aktaramayabileceği kadar güçlü bağlar, ve bununla her zaman aynı yönde gelişmeyebilen, belgeselin, gerçekliğin bir “temsili” olması durumu Nichols’a bu soruyu sordurur. Biraz düşündüğümde,…
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The Poetics of This-Worldy Absences: Baudelaire on Death
“Reduced to one last hope, that Death might…
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The Beauty of Mass (Commercial) Culture: POP
Hamilton, in his work, “For the Finest Art, Try Pop”, tries to explain pop-art in relation to two reactionary art movements of the 20th century, Dadaism and Futurism; two movements in which artists react to the modern society in constant change in an attempt to express an image of it and to take a critical…
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The Machine Eye: The Beauty of Photoghraphy
Walter Benjamin’s influential essay “The World of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936) deals with the relationship between the mechanization of art production techniques and socio-political changes brought about with capitalistic mode of production. He introduces his essay with a reference to Marxist critique of capitalist mode of production. Assuming a mainstream understanding…
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The Beauty of Provacation: Dada and Surrealism
Hugo Ball, the founder of Cabaret Voltaire which will later initiate most Dadaist artist together with Emmy Hennings, states in his “Dada Fragments” that, as the life asserts itself in contradictions, art of Dada–which encompasses the contradictions by being absurd, extraordinary, avant-garde and by employing an anomalous perspective–can be said to penetrate into the life…
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Cakitschalism
In his essay “Avant-Garde and Kitsch”, Clement Greenberg investigates the notions of avant-garde and of kitsch by attempting to provide their relation to each other and to the capitalism; also to evaluate critically the use of art (yet, for Greenberg, the art-status of these works are questionable) as a fascist propaganda apparatus by dumbing-down the…
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In the Name of Picasso!
Rosalind Krauss, in her influential essay on Cubism−“In the Name of Picasso” (1981), puts the positions of many critics of her time towards Cubists and especially Picasso, under suspicion. The prevailing conceptualisation of Picasso’s unprecedented art was appreciated for its autobiographical value by the critics that attempt to comment on it for the first time−such…
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