Goodnight, Bruno Ganz, an actor whose empathy on-screen was always palpable & whose presence in such films as WINGS OF DESIRE will always live on in our hearts. https://t.co/FKVqWfGf1l
https://twitter.com/Criterion/status/1096748036510941184?s=19
Why Bruno Ganz was most memorable when he was caught between good and evil https://t.co/rVbQ8UfDiB https://t.co/lmvtTTQLML
Ganz' celestial performance in 'Wings of Desire' was so memorable that Ganz once recounted how people ascribed special powers to him when they recognized him in public https://t.co/uhcmUQvuie
https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1096846926501183488?s=19
Bruno Ganz: always poetic and inspired, from Hitler's bunker rant to a Berlin angel https://t.co/aCIazkMciF
https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1096896636024963072?s=19
All of us at Five Books were deeply saddened to hear of the death of Professor Gary Gutting this week. A truly world class scholar at @NotreDame, he spoke with us about Foucault in 2017. He will be missed and we are grateful to have interviewed him.
Journalist, politician, scholar. We are so sad to hear Rod MacFarquhar has died. A leading authority on the Cultural Revolution, he recommended books on it for us. Modesty prevented him from including his books, but anyone else would have: https://t.co/1oWiKHbuH3 @FairbankCenter
"I have no doubt To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee has launched hundreds of thousands of lawyers and human rights campaigners on their path."
Shami Chakrabarti on Harper Lee in a list of the five best books on Human Rights. https://t.co/hNQuC36ojL
"You have to understand people first before you can understand how to devise an economic system for them"
Robert J. Shiller (@RobertJShiller) @NobelPrize winning economist and Sterling Professor of Economics at @Yale looks at capitalism and human nature.
https://t.co/k48e7ELkYP
Would you kill one person to save five? Should we be able to sell our kidneys? David Edmonds, co-host of the @philosophybites podcast, on ethical problems https://t.co/FE5u8CQLu2
“Imagine how you would design society if your enemy were to decide your place in it”
Jonathan Wolff of the @BlavatnikSchool on what he considers to be the five best works of political philosophy. https://t.co/2IFxokQFce
"Differences of opinion about what constitutes human flourishing and how we should live our lives...studying that conversation is the essence of the highest form of education our civilisation offers."
@Stanford's Peter Berkowitz on #liberty and #morality.
https://t.co/KJiSJJD2t1
"This ideology of happiness has actually produced more unhappiness than needed, since we’ve constantly been measuring our lives with regard to success, or self-fulfilment, or enjoyment."
Philosopher Renata Salecl looks at misery in the modern world .
https://t.co/swEg2dLKxq
“At the end, each of its heroes find a relief in assuming the void."
Slavoj Žižek, philosopher and cultural critic, discusses his favourite works of drama and explains why he refuses to see them performed.
https://t.co/60jnpP5zZO
"What Nietzsche is saying there is: “When bad things happen to you, ask yourself, how can I use this?” And I think he’s right about that. It is a fruitful, positive, productive attitude to take."
Emrys Westacott looks at philosophy and everyday life.
https://t.co/n2vll55BpZ
"We seem to experience ourselves as being controlling agents in the world and this makes it very difficult, if not impossible, to simply abandon our belief that we are free — whatever sceptical arguments suggest to the contrary."
Paul Russell on #FreeWill
https://t.co/Ib7yqlnpR5
"Forget bats for a moment, this is one of the fundamental problems of consciousness: I can’t know what it’s like to be you, and you can’t know what it’s like to be me."
Susan Blackmore recommends the best books on consciousness.
https://t.co/nQGcKMI2Hg
“For classical theism, whatever else we want to say about God, the core idea is that God is the ultimate explanation of why anything exists at all."
Edward Feser looks at arguments for the existence of God.
https://t.co/IsffedgOte
“There’s a sort of battleground between theists and atheists trying to mount arguments that will somehow force the other side to convert. There’s very little prospect in succeeding in an enterprise like that.”
Prof. Graham Oppy on Philosophy of Religion
https://t.co/2rrUSznCJF
In Notebooks for an Ethics, Sartre says that maybe authentic love is possible. Maybe we can “rejoice” in others without trying to possess them. However, he wasn’t entirely convinced..."
@Skye_Cleary examines philosophical explorations of #love.
https://t.co/oZD1TScifM
"It’s an amazing book..,Camus seems to have understood the many other components of a plague—the fear, the discrimination, the hopefulness and the hopelessness—and he also wrestles with, ‘What is the meaning of this?’"
Albert Camus was born #OTD in 1913.
https://t.co/RALC6V7bWz https://t.co/kISsOQ5aPv
"You only have to look at any country plagued by AIDS to see that Catholic dogma is appallingly damaging and there is no moral justification for this, only a dogmatic religious justification."
Acclaimed philosopher Mary Warnock on morality without God.
https://t.co/43m7fMc9SU
"We mustn’t assume that our intuitive picture of the mind is correct. If we want to understand the mind as it really is, then we must go beyond armchair reflection and engage with the science of the mind and brain."
@keithfrankish on philosophy of mind.
https://t.co/6hELskg1W0
"We think we’re talking about morality, but actually we’re just left with the fragments of morality. What’s been lost is the central idea of human beings as creatures with an inherent end or purpose."
Edward Skidelsky picks the best books on Virtue.
https://t.co/G3zEfoxuPD
"Reason may not be as self-sufficiently robust as some had hoped, but it doesn’t have to be. It has brought us, often kicking and screaming, into our greater collective well-being"
Rebecca Goldstein (@platobooktour) discusses reason and its limitations.
https://t.co/Z3tObXtu4L
“How can we explain the fact that, on orders, millions of people go out and kill one another, when they know that killing another human being is morally wrong?”
Professor Cécile Fabre, philosopher and All Souls Fellow, picks the best books on #war.
https://t.co/CggbIHtk3t
"An ideal relationship is where lovers are able freely to choose one another rather than coming together out of a dependent or weak situation, or from a desire to possess one another."
Skye C Cleary (@Skye_Cleary) looks at the philosophy of love.
https://t.co/oZD1TScifM
Thought-provoking interview on work and burnout with Josh Cohen, psychoanalyst and literary critic, for @five_books: https://t.co/Rn42GuZsHI
His book, Not Working: Why we Have to Stop, was published earlier this year.
"In the history of psychiatry, of psychotherapy, of psychology, mental health generally, depression is notoriously elastic."
Psychoanalyst Josh Cohen breaks down the science and psychology behind burnout, work and exhaustion: https://t.co/Dw8LPG8oiY
@five_books: Which psychology books get recommended again again by the experts we interview? Check our our psychology section to find out: https://t.co/MEsmjDX3tL
Books by @DanTGilbert, @sapinker @OliverSacks and more
"The construction of a tomb was a significant indicator of rank and prestige. Then once you were dead the tomb would be part of an ongoing cult in your memory, for rituals, celebrations and feasting."
https://t.co/7fOaChQNSR
“A long time before Freud, Dostoevsky was at work explaining the contradictory, clashing tendencies of the human spirit through his anti-hero, Raskolnikov”
Robert Service, Professor of Russian Studies at Oxford, on totalitarian Russia. @REESOxford https://t.co/rdqNUh0GVH
"Borges asks: what happens if we can’t forget? Will we be forever tied to an excruciatingly detailed past? Or will we be able to forget parts of it over time and be able to evolve and move on?"
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger on Memory & the Digital Age https://t.co/pA9EDmMNAH
“Philosophy has always had this valuable attitude of speaking to both sides of human interest: to the intellectual, the academic, the ivory tower; but also to the practical, ordinary aspects of the world."
@Floridi on the Philosophy of Information. https://t.co/alpsdij1uf
"Our senses are more interconnected than we realise. Colour can influence our perception of tastes and smells, ditto for music, or textures. You can’t understand one without embracing them all."
Journalist & expert sommelier @bbosker on the senses. https://t.co/YxzyUlbDbc
“He wrote for the stage—and always carried with him that sense of dramatic exposition”
A Wilkie Collins #readinglist: https://t.co/myO7QqABpH
#OTD in 1907, poet W H Auden was born. In an interview on P G Wodehouse, @soratcli recommends The Dyers Hand, essays in which "Auden describes why characters can live on beyond and outside their novels, and why innocence matters." https://t.co/uuadBUHzZq
“Out of all of the novels Austen published in her short life, this one feels most to me like a real love story”
@Columbia English Professor @triaspirational recommends Jane Austen's Persuasion: https://t.co/xZwzJ3oaUd
"A capacious, democratic, culturally-enmeshed, and politically-alert tradition grows from the root of Whitman. A spiritually-attuned, perceptually-focused, inward-looking family of poetry flows from Emily Dickinson." —@PoetryInAmerica host Elisa New https://t.co/Acaf3nTCYA
“I tell my students, ‘Don’t put any abstract nouns into your poems. Just write about things you can count or put in a wheelbarrow’.”
The best books on poetry, recommended by award-winning Northern Irish poet Sinéad Morrissey @Carcanet https://t.co/row2Qu12ze
“It’s amazing that the two greatest philosophical novels written in English in the 19th century, Moby Dick and Middlemarch, come out of a preoccupation with Spinoza.”
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (@platobooktour) recommends the Best Philosophical Novels https://t.co/7WG1Fk2Jga
“Treating students as consumers cheapens not only students, but it also cheapens teachers, lecturers and those people who are trying to foster an environment for thought.”
Sociology professor Les Back (@AcademicDiary) discusses books on academia. https://t.co/eiW6LsOh31
“Everybody should have the skill of thinking computationally.”
@anabellphd from @MIT recommends the best books to learn programming and start exploring the field of computer science https://t.co/LMKtxRaste
"If you go back to Hume, Locke or Descartes, you find that they weren’t writing for professionals in university, they were writing for their educated peers. Every educated mind should be engaged with the great questions."
A C Grayling: Ideas That Matter https://t.co/Y5Qi1S3bEm
“It’s perverse to be surprised that you can be a person who both makes and writes. The things I make using porcelain come out of reading and thinking.” Edmund de Waal, bestselling author and ceramics artist, talks about the best books on writing and art. https://t.co/3xecAqu4QT
"The position of a lot of theologians in the Middle Ages was that there was no need to be curious, because everything we needed to know was in the scriptures, or in Aristotle and Aquinas which had acquired the status of quasi-scripture." https://t.co/wY112wxHu0
"I like The Descent of Man better than The Origin of Species because Darwin is prepared to be much bolder. In The Origin of Species he was still a little bit timid."
For Darwin's birthday, take @PeterSinger's recommendation & read Descent of Man. https://t.co/xiZYPz52Vf
"Darwin's idea, that the same processes occurring slowly and steadily today also have been active throughout Earth history, slowly but steadily shaping the landscape, is known as uniformitarianism."
Happy Darwin Day. Here's @adammaloof on Earth History: https://t.co/FiapqPLw33
Please don't generalise in that manner. Ashram and Auroville are different and the latter is a tiny enclave struggling for its existence. Devotees of The Mother & Sri Aurobindo are spread across the country. In Odisha alone, there are thousands of Centres and six hundred Schools.
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1100032739976212482?s=19
What you are alluding to is not without a grain of truth but it's a complex subject with a large number of persons and institutions as stake holders. Not easy to appropriate or hijack what The Mother & Sri Aurobindo have created so assiduously; no one can claim he/she understands
I said the sanitation work profession has its own dignity and must not be reinforced in the minds of the people as lowly in social hierarchy. PM's act is likely to be emulated by heads of each institution or office leading to a very ridiculous situation for the concerned employees.
Not respecting someone's right to privacy of body is no less sordid than Gandhi having young women in his bed. The urge to touch is an aching problem in the old age and a PM should avoid different pretexts including hugging to satisfy the same in public. A public apology needed.
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1099744256673996800?s=19
On Rakhi Purnima day in Odisha, the draft bullocks are treated to much care and caressing and worshipped with all religious paraphernalia to express gratitude for their labour. This incident reminds of similar connotation which, I think, is not the right social contract with PM.
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1099905674262257664?s=19
Because Thou Art: Art ought to be an enabler https://t.co/K7AWNqsMTC Churchill took to the canvas. Milton visited Galileo. Exhibitions have now proliferated. Satyajit Ray-Mrinal Sen rivalry. Naipaul said India is building as if it has no history. New War memorial is underwhelming
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1100098844694437890?s=19
The PM is wrong
Savitri Era: I won't allow anyone to wash my feet https://t.co/BeOE0J36sm Posted by Tusar Nath Mohapatra @NathTusar Director, SELF, SRA-102-C #ShipraRiviera #Indirapuram #Ghaziabad #UttarPradesh 201014
#SavitriEra of those who adore,
Om #SriAurobindo & #TheMother
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1100024587025170432?s=19
