by ChristopherPhelps Philosophy
These poems thread and rethread the nature of identity—in theology and philosophy, called the problem of haecceity.
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by Stewart K. Lundy Art
Andrei Tarkovsky made an important film called Andrei Rublev, about a doubting monk, Russia’s greatest iconographer. The film feels very much like Bergman, from whom much of Tarkovsky’s style emerged. Like Bergman’s Seventh Seal, Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev is a slow-paced journey with monks, holy idiots, existential discourse, and symbolic animals.
Tagged as: aldous huxley, andrei rublev, andrei tarkovsky, communist, eidos, films, iconography, ikon, Image, ingmar bergman, magic, movies, nirvana, Plato, Russia, seventh seal, shunryu suzuki, soviet, violence
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