He was determined to make sense of topics – grief, jealousy, the nature of emotion in general, artistic response – which, as he said, philosophers tend to "over-intellectualise", and thus distort.
He came to know virtually everyone of distinction in artistic and intellectual life -- novelists, poets, painters, philosophers, art critics.
Philosophers have concentrated both on aesthetic issues about film as an artistic medium — the philosophy of film — and questions about the philosophical content of films — films as philosophy.
But aesthetic concepts, like all ideas, have a history, and only by understanding what they meant at one period or another can we understand how philosophers, writers and artists used them to work out responses to social and artistic issues.
No wonder the former scientist with a PhD. in computational biology has establish a reputation as a musical philosopher and heir apparent to accessibly obtuse artists like Aphex Twin, with fans who are willing to follow his every artistic whim.
In this rural town in Catalonia, steeped in artistic heritage, he started to read Voltaire, Nietzsche, Kant, Spinoza, and Descartes, and these philosophers' notions on the nature of reality created in his mind an abiding sense of purpose.
In his program note for Uriel Acosta: I Want That Man!, at The Chocolate Factory in Queens, Target Margin artistic director David Herskovitz explains that different versions of Karl Gutzkow's 1846 play about the 17th-century Jewish philosopher exist.
Later philosophers have been content merely to distinguish representation and expression as different modes of artistic meaning, characterized perhaps by different formal or semantic properties.
Watch the above video to see why famous philosophers and artists throughout history, from Tolstoy to Andy Warhol, would argue in favor of a meme's artistic value.
Jerry Lewis, philosopher.
