Tag Archives: William James

darwin: if only one could discern it

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Dave

…Darwin had been struck during the voyage by a number of facts which seemed at odds with the special creation of each species. The organic life he studied so intensively and collected so assiduously seemed littered with clues, odd similarities, … Continue reading →

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the paranormal: does what matter

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Dave

…Now there is a vast amount of testimony to psi phenomena. Freud and Jung took their existence for granted; they fascinated William James; and as Arthur Koestler pointed out in his The Roots of Coincidence, the British Society for Psychical … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Arthur Koestler, Carl Jung, Dr. J.B. Rhine, Dr. Louisa Rhine, Emanuel Swedenborg, Jeremy Brett, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Paranormal psychology, Piet Mondrian, Sigmund Freud, Uri Geller, William James | Leave a comment

if dreyfus was an arab

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Dave

Why we cannot forget Dreyfus. The chief actors in the drama have been on the political scene ever since but the dynamic takes on shape-shifting characteristics in defining new enemies and the necessity of an “other” as the basis of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Captain Alfred Dreyfus, Charles Maurras, Edouard Drumont La Libre Parole, Edward Said, Emile Zola, Joseph Schildkraut, Jules Guerin, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Major Marie Charles Esterhazy, The Dreyfus Affair, William James | Leave a comment

lookin’ for joey’s camel

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Dave

“Deux poids. Deux measures” A kind of double standard. A sigh, a resignation of acceptance of moral relativism. This is especially acute with regard to the established canon of the church of socialist thinking in which the high priests of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alexander Berkman, Awr Hawkins, Breibart, Caroline Glick, Congressman Mike Rogers, Edward Bernays, Emma Goldman, godley and Creme, judge Edmund Levy, Judith Butler, Levy Report, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Meretz Party, Migron expulsion, Talia Sasson, Weinstein Israel Supreme Court, William James, Yishai Fleisher, Zehava Gal-On Meretz party | Leave a comment

hail to the chief

Posted on August 31, 2012 by Dave

Theodor Adorno basic thesis was that repression and domination, were part and parcel, intrinsic to the functioning of liberal democratic societies as well as totalitarian fascist ones. The individual as mere exchange value, a commodity, or simple vending machine was … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Franco Spain Phalangist Party, Hassan Nasrallah, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Heidegger, Max Horkheimer, Phalange party Lebanon, Pierre Gemayel, robert fisk, Samaranch IOC, Seymour Hersh, Theodor Adorno, William James | Leave a comment

what if there was no back then

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Dave

Not impressed. Deeply dissatisfied. But not surprised at this confrontation with the passive-aggressive; the yearning to be like him, then the abject tragedy arising when the initiative is undertaken. Harold Bloom was just the man to review Robert Crumb’s The … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged emmanuel levinas, Franz Kafka, Harold Bloom, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Buber, Martin Heidegger, Max Brod, pauline pistis, Randy Newman, Robert Crumb, Sam Harris, Theodor Adorno, Walt Whitman, Walter Benjamin, William Blake, William James | Leave a comment

new vision of visions: the inner need

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Dave

What is meant by spiritual experience? Not evident in the era of post-modernism, Chris Hitchens, and the dubious pursuit of art as a spiritual experience. Still, there is a necessity to avoid standardization and leave an artistic scar so to … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Christopher Hitchens, Damien Hirst, Ernest Becker, Franz Marc, Gustav Landauer, Henri Matisse, Jeff Koons, Martin Buber, richard stratton, silvano arieti, Viktor Frankl, Wassily Kandinsky, William James | Leave a comment

luther: indulgence of the spiritual investment

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Dave

Martin Luther and Leo X were certainly a study of contrasts. And to think that the reformation was catalyzed by a grubby dispute over taxes to build St. Peters and a rather dubious scheme on the part of Church and … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Albrecht Durer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, martin luther ninety-five theses, Pope Leo X, William James, zoltan lendavi | Leave a comment

fiddler on a hot church roof

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Dave

Martin Luther is still creating controversy. Recently, about 800 statuettes of the 16th-century Protestant reformer popped up in the eastern German town of Wittenberg, where Luther first preached against practices of the Roman Catholic church almost five hundred years ago. … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Johann Gottfried Schadow, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Martin Luther, mary fulbrook, Ottmar Hoerl, Pope Alexander VI, pope innocent VIII, pope Julius II, Pope Leo X, Raphael, thirty years war, William James | Leave a comment

the horse has already vaulted

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Dave

The unfettered experience. Its the zipper, stupid. But, does promiscuity necessarily involve forms of immorality? Is there a value in promiscuity if it is located in the pursuit of ideals? .Promiscuity in a Western context seems to have a negative … Continue reading →