JACQUES LACAN (1901 – 1981) PART FOUR: THE MIRROR STAGE, CONTINUED Although Jacques Lacan can be characterized as a philosopher because his life work was based on reinterpreting the canonical writings of a philosopher, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). However, Lacan...
JACQUES LACAN (1901 – 1981) PART TWO: RETURN TO FREUD Being a transitional figure, bridging Modernism and Postmodernism, Jacques Lacan was a complex and hybrid philosopher whose work is convoluted and complicated. As a Modernist, he favored models and...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN (1889-1951) Part Two: The Late Work Philosophers constantly see the method of science before their eyes, and are irresistibly tempted to ask and answer in the way science does. This tendency is the real source of metaphysics, and leads the...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN (1889 – 1951) Part One: Early Work During the War to End all Wars, it would be the self-appointed task of an obscure Austrian philosopher named Ludwig Wittgenstein but bring Kantian philosophy to its logical conclusion. As biographer Edward...
THE PHILOSOPHY OF CONCEPTUAL ART PART TWO “Art is art. Everything else is everything else.” Ad Reinhardt The artist, Joseph Kosuth, insisted that Conceptual Art was a child of the 1960s, not the Civil Rights sixties, not the Stonewall sixties, not the...
