But the greatest writers of the age saw Sade as something much more important: a philosopher of a world turned upside down.
Taylor--more an artist than a philosopher of religion--is thoroughly Western in his conviction that there is no escaping creativity: nothing is given, everything is made.
Well, we had a wonderful time talking this way, but since Carmen is more of a philosopher than the next editor of Lucky, it was left to us to pick the merch that could make all the difference.
Mailer may well simply have been, by temperament, more of a philosopher than a fictioneer (Lethem likens one of the young Mailer's insights to those of Zizek), a writer whose ideas and whose own voice — and whose need to assert that voice — take precedence over the flowering of otherness, over the full realization of a world in fiction.
Say something like, "Philosopher X doesn't explicitly say that P, but it seems to me that he might have believed it, because... .. You don't want to summarize any more of a philosopher's views than is necessary.
You sit back and think that this guy is more of a philosopher than he is a thug," he says.
Cuomo described his father as a loving man who was more of a philosopher than a politician, who hated bureaucracy, loved playing basketball and could be a "ferocious opponent" or a "powerful ally".
If anything, though, she was the more renowned philosopher of the two.
Similar situations and specific transformations for physics and chemistry centuries ago had been considered in more detail by philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn who proposed concept of scientific revolutions for shifting from one scientific paradigm and state of science-world-society to another one.
Philosophers of law cannot solve their problems by giving a definition of the word 'law', any more than philosophers of language can solve their problems by giving a definition of the word 'language' (for discussion of the implications for legal philosophy of the semantics and metasemantics of the word 'law', see Coleman and Simchen 2003).
