Tag Archives: Montaigne

bacon: instauratio magna

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Dave

” for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be able to do.” Francis bacon’s gist for condensation is so remarkable that it is easy , almost four centuries later, in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged J. North, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Manley P. Hall, Montaigne, Rene Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon | Leave a comment

honky chateau

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Dave

There is nothing like life in a dank chateau to promote, in a growing girl, a taste for literature. …. We grieve for many; not least we grieve for unhappy, solitary maidens so intelligent as to be misfits in ordinary … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged feminist literature, French Literature, french literature 16th century, king henry of navarre, marie de gournay, Michel de Montaigne, Montaigne, Virginia Woolf | Leave a comment

montaigne: sharing the fuzzy warbles

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Dave

Beautiful losers. It was kind of a poor man’s version of Maimonides Guide for the Perplexed, drawing on navel gazing problems of then lo-fi culture such as cannibalism, sexual titillation, witch’s spells etc. Prime material for an Oprah book of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged auguste racinet, Eugene Delacroix, france sixteenth-century, john calvin, Ludwig von Mises, mercantilism, Michel de Montaigne, Montaigne, murray n. rothbard, paul clark, phillip lopate, robert woodruff, robert woodruff coca cola, sarah bakewell, theodore zeldin, Virginia Woolf | Leave a comment

the un-hero: theme & subject

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Dave

It was a “monstrous plan.” The birth of the confessional form of writing. It was to essay something quite new: It was to look into the heart and write with, as it were, his life’s blood. A shared carnival of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Aristotle, bernard levin, cannibalism, charles hose, Francis Bacon, jane kramer, jane kramer the new yorker, Ludwig von Mises, Michel de Montaigne, Montaigne, murray n. rothbard, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, sarah bakewell, Sir Francis Bacon, Stoic Humanism, Virginia Woolf | Leave a comment

MAN-EATERS: MASTERPIECE OF THE RAW & UNCOOKED

Posted on July 24, 2010 by Dave

The cannibal in written records was originally a story about what existed beyond the boundaries of the known. It kept the wild and the civic state apart. Sometimes, however, it brought them together: Othello seduced Desdemona with his tales of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Alhadeff, Bill Casselman, Christopher Columbus, Dali, Eugene Delacroix, Father Labat, Gericault, Hannibal Lecter, Ingres, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, Lenin, Marco Polo, Marquis de Sade, Maurice Sendak, Michel de Montaigne, Michelangelo, Montaigne, Nicolas Poussin, Osamu Fukutani, Othello and Desdemona, Restoration France, Robinson Crusoe, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Theodore Gericault, Thomas Hobbes, Tim White Cannibalism, Voltaire, William Dafoe, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

STRANGE MANNERISMS

Posted on February 13, 2010 by Dave

The arts had come under grave suspicion as offenders against dignity, restraint and decorum. The tide was running toward a new puritanism in the Roman Catholic Church when the council of the church fathers, originally summoned to set the Church’s … Continue reading →