[lit-ideas] Re: Decisions, decisions

  • From: Eric Yost <NYCEric@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 02:05:07 -0400

Donal asks "whether list-members want to name movies etc. that they 
think illustrate no "philosophical themes" whatever?"
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How about Maya Deren's surrealist beauty, _Meshes of the Afternoon_?

Conditions of this offer: the film willingly approaches the philosopher, 
bearing its philosophical themes as free gifts freely given. The 
philosopher does not, in his philosophical lust, roughly subdue the film 
and force it to yield philosophical themes.

In other words, I'm assuming Donal means "the movie intentionally 
illustrates philosophical themes," rather than "a philosopher may use 
the movie to represent philosophical themes" or "a philosopher may 
explicate the grounding philosophical assumptions of the people who made 
the film" or "a philosopher may use the film as a tabula on which to 
project philosophical themes not inherent in the film's creation."




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