Tag: "culture & society"

The Western as Philosophy

Revisiting the Western convinces Thomas Wartenberg that historical progress is not just a simple question of good heroically triumphing over evil.
[Issue 61: May/June 2007: Films]

Shakespeare in Hollywood

Francis Akpata argues that Shakespeare would be a film director not a playwright in today’s high-media world.
[Issue 60: March/April 2007: Films]

Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership by Martha Nussbaum

Jean Chambers witnesses Martha Nussbaum raise a high bar for standards of international social justice.
[Issue 60: March/April 2007: Books]

9/11 and World Trade Center

Thomas Wartenberg sees two films about 9-11 and muses that sometimes more than courage is called for.
[Issue 58: November/December 2006: Films]

Hitchcock as Philosopher by Robert J Yanal

Mark Huston looks at Robert Yanal looking at Hitchcock directing philosophy.
[Issue 57: September/October 2006: Books]

Albert C. Barnes: Cantankerous Freethinker

Tim Madigan ponders the mysteries of friendship.
[Issue 57: September/October 2006: Food for Thought]

Philosophical Twist

Thomas Wartenberg tells us his hunch about a cunning plan to market DVDs. Is turning epistemology into showbiz a good thing or a bad thing?
[Issue 57: September/October 2006: Films]

Slacker

Colin Bartie digs the countercultural theme in Slacker and other films by Richard Linklater.
[Issue 56: July/August 2006: Films]

The Pornography of Meat by Carol Adams

Lisa Kemmerer agrees with Carol Adams about some of the subliminal assumptions advertisers use to sell their wares.
[Issue 56: July/August 2006: Books]

Ken Knisely (1957-2005)

George Leaman remembers a friend.
[Issue 56: July/August 2006: Obituary]

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