Feb 8, 2025 11:51 PM
Mickey Mouse and Mao feature in Dadaist animation ‘The Great History of Western Philosophy’
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies...236122299/
EXCERPTS: Mao Zedong, Socrates, Mickey Mouse, Ayn Rand, elephants, and echoes of Monty Python in a Dadaist animation film – that is one way to describe Mexican filmmaker Aria Covamonas’ first feature, "The Great History of Western Philosophy" (La gran historia de la filosofía occidental). But most descriptions won’t even come close to properly capturing this rollercoaster ride of public domain creativity, getting its world premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) on Wednesday.
[...] the film is “a witty, anarchic work of revisionism, gleefully dismantling sacrosanct ideas and traditions. Aria Covamonas’ exuberant creation might just have Bertrand Russell rolling in his grave – not from outrage, but from uncontrollable laughter.” (MORE - details)
The Great History of Western Philosophy – Trailer
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ocn-WmiRynM
Ray Bradbury, Bertrand Russell and Fahrenheit 451
https://philosophynow.org/issues/166/The_Fire_This_Time
EXCERPTS: On March 13, 1954, the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) wrote a letter to Bradbury’s London publishers praising Fahrenheit 451, and enclosing with it a photo of himself, pipe in hand, with a copy of the book on the arm of his reading chair (the photo became one of Bradbury’s most cherished possessions). [...] No doubt one reason why Russell had admired Fahrenheit 451 enough to invite its author to meet him was the fact that he himself appeared in it...
[...] Bradbury, a self-educated man who had never attended college, and who freely admitted that most of his knowledge of philosophy came from reading Russell’s A History of Western Philosophy (1946), was trepidatious that he might be asked his opinion of Nietzsche or Schopenhauer, or, worst of all, Sartre, whose novel Nausea (1938) he had recently tried to read, “only to wind up with feelings befitting the title” (p.79).
Much to Bradbury’s relief, the subject of philosophy never came up during the brief meeting – which was rather fortunate, since, according to Bradbury’s biographer Jonathan Eller, the philosopher he was most intrigued to learn about was Henri Bergson, whose metaphysical views on time and space were completely opposed to Russell’s... (MORE - details)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies...236122299/
EXCERPTS: Mao Zedong, Socrates, Mickey Mouse, Ayn Rand, elephants, and echoes of Monty Python in a Dadaist animation film – that is one way to describe Mexican filmmaker Aria Covamonas’ first feature, "The Great History of Western Philosophy" (La gran historia de la filosofía occidental). But most descriptions won’t even come close to properly capturing this rollercoaster ride of public domain creativity, getting its world premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) on Wednesday.
[...] the film is “a witty, anarchic work of revisionism, gleefully dismantling sacrosanct ideas and traditions. Aria Covamonas’ exuberant creation might just have Bertrand Russell rolling in his grave – not from outrage, but from uncontrollable laughter.” (MORE - details)
The Great History of Western Philosophy – Trailer
Ray Bradbury, Bertrand Russell and Fahrenheit 451
https://philosophynow.org/issues/166/The_Fire_This_Time
EXCERPTS: On March 13, 1954, the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) wrote a letter to Bradbury’s London publishers praising Fahrenheit 451, and enclosing with it a photo of himself, pipe in hand, with a copy of the book on the arm of his reading chair (the photo became one of Bradbury’s most cherished possessions). [...] No doubt one reason why Russell had admired Fahrenheit 451 enough to invite its author to meet him was the fact that he himself appeared in it...
[...] Bradbury, a self-educated man who had never attended college, and who freely admitted that most of his knowledge of philosophy came from reading Russell’s A History of Western Philosophy (1946), was trepidatious that he might be asked his opinion of Nietzsche or Schopenhauer, or, worst of all, Sartre, whose novel Nausea (1938) he had recently tried to read, “only to wind up with feelings befitting the title” (p.79).
Much to Bradbury’s relief, the subject of philosophy never came up during the brief meeting – which was rather fortunate, since, according to Bradbury’s biographer Jonathan Eller, the philosopher he was most intrigued to learn about was Henri Bergson, whose metaphysical views on time and space were completely opposed to Russell’s... (MORE - details)