Monday, December 16, 2013

finis

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do to disinterest and no viewers in readers of blog "Thought for Food", I have decided to stop postings. sadly. but what is, even...
Monday, December 9, 2013

world-views of "Jesus"

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"From the Deists and Reimarus to Strauss and Renan, the world view that was brought to the study of the Gospels was decisive in the int...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Nietzsche's appointment in Basel doomed before the start

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Leipzig, Day of Repentence [November 20, 1868] "My dear friend [Erwin Rohde]: To see again from close at hand the seething brood o...
Monday, November 25, 2013

'real life' is out of this world

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"Many advertisements took their place alongside other mass diversions -- the amusement park, the slick-paper romance, the movies. None ...

advertising's foundational anthropology for 'making customers'

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"It was left to Edward Bernays, nephew of Freud and 'father' of public relations, to provide the epitaph for bourgeois ideals o...

all the world's a(n unconscious) stage

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"In preindustrial England virtually all the actors in this social drama [the rank-ordered society] knew their places and the parts assi...

(un)suited

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"In the course of the nineteenth century the image of the ideal gentleman rapidly shed the remnants of the eighteenth -century courtlin...

religion and politics?

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"Dispensing advice that dated back at least to the seventeenth century, etiquette writers stressed that relgious controversy was to be ...
Thursday, November 21, 2013

Pop Nazi Occultism

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"Books written about Nazi occultism between 1960 and 1975 were typically sensational and under-researched. A complete ignorance of the ...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Höss

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"Rudolf  Höss, the commander of Auschwitz concentration camp, was undoubtedly the greatest mass murderer known to history. Yet his auto...