This essay has articulated a Zen Philosophy, though as anti-philosophy, by thematizing such topics as "overcoming dualism," "Zen-seeing," "Zen's understanding of time and space," "Zen person," and "Zen freedom," in which process is noted a sense of the movement from "not two" to "not one".
In his essay Why Bother, Franzen articulates the way a list intrinsically declares life's limit, this time in relation to reading: "I began to make unhelpful calculations, multiplying the number of books I'd read in the previous year by the number of years I might reasonably expect to live... the news on that front wasn't cheering".
But today, here's an especially articulate essay on this subject.
Look on the back of landmark albums like John Coltrane's "Giant Steps" or Miles Davis' "Sketches of Spain" and you'll see Hentoff's name, along with an articulate essay that will help you understand the music and feel it deeply.
In his early essay on aphasia, Freud articulates the acoustic and kinaesthetic elements in words that may drive connections in directions quite different from their semantic properties.
It is no accident that Michael Redgrave's one work of fiction was a Gothic novella, The Mountebank's Tale, concerning a pure classical actor and his extrovert showman double, or that his highly articulate essays on acting are called Mask or Face.
Following his outspoken views on major record labels, articulated in 1993 essay The Problem With Music and a 2014 keynote speech at Melbourne's Face the Music conference, Albini has weighed in on Jay Z's digital music streaming service, Tidal.
The role of God as a point of orientation in the moral life and as a need of reason is also articulated in the essay, "What is Orientation in Thinking" (1786).
In a liner essay for "Inner Diaspora," he lucidly articulates his preference for Buddhist and Taoist philosophies, while identifying himself as a secular Jewish artist.
