Phenomenology
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“White” in Friedrich and Courbet
Caspar David Friedrich: The elegance and aesthetics of being overwhelmed by Mother Nature. Caspar David pacifies us against the fact/fate that only rocks, ice, fog and huge trees remain from old heroes, craft ships, philosophers and human architecture. Firmness and infinity of the Mother Nature has its best expression in perfectly cold whites. Wanderer above the…
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AT HOME IN CHAOS
Contemplations from my visit to Francis Bacon’s studio at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, on November 2018. Considering my admiration for Bacon, it still seems unlikely that I have not visited Bacon’s studio on my first trip to Dublin in 2016, which, at the time, felt as if it was the first and the…
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Derrida’s Notion of Metaphysics and of Postmetaphysical Philosophyzing
One can make sense of the overall context of 20th century including Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and Derrida with the help of adopting a notion on which all of these philosophers agree to have taken as their subject matter of inquiry; namely, overcoming of the traditional Western metaphysics. Although three of them adopt distinct paths for doing…
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