While not all art invites understanding in terms of the gaze, much does; perhaps nowhere is the ideology of extreme disinterested contemplation more questionable than when applied to paintings of female nudes, which one feminist scholar argues virtually define the modern fine art of painting (Nead 1992).
Merton's conversion, in 1939, was the result of an intellectual journey — which, to the shock of his friends, led him, two years later, to a life of contemplation and extreme austerity, in the Abbey of Gethsemani, a Trappist monastery in Kentucky.
Merton's conversion, in 1939, was the result of an intellectual journey which, to the shock of his friends, led him, two years later, to a life of contemplation and extreme austerity, in the Abbey of Gethsemani, a Trappist monastery in Kentucky.
He considered this indicative of a "deep and unsensational acceptance of death" in Japanese culture, one which is to be met not with extreme sorrow, but with contemplation.
You end up contemplating your own contemplation.
For it is well known that even the contemplation of doing so caused this complex and delicate man extreme physical and mental distress; and it certainly seems plausible that Darwin felt that limiting himself to the comparative method, contrasting humans with apes, and merely conjecturing about possible transitional forms, was somehow the safest route to take.
This knotty contemplation of amour fou that transcends time and place is a movie for extreme romantics.
(Dargis) 'Café de Flore' (No rating, 2 00, in French) Set in contemporary Montreal, this knotty contemplation of amour fou that transcends time and place is a movie for extreme romantics.
This progressive movement of memory as a whole takes place, according to Bergson, between the extremes of the base of "pure memory," which is immobile and which Bergson calls "contemplation" (Matter and Memory, p. 163), and the plane where action takes place.
The book has become one I turn to time and again in my own extreme states of mind, opening it at random to inevitably find in its dense, rich prose a contemplation similar to my own.
