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In Praise of Shadows: A Prose Elegy
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Analysis of Martin Heidegger's essays on technology, science, metaphysics, and Nietzsche's philosophy, exploring the essence of technology, the turning of modern age, and the impact on human existence.
LinkThe Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays by Heidegger
The document discusses René Girard's theory of mimetic desire and its implications, analyzing how desires are formed socially and the role of identification in desire acquisition.
LinkIn Praise of Shadows
The essay explores the cultural appreciation of shadows, darkness, and subdued beauty in traditional Japanese architecture, art, and everyday objects, contrasting it with Western ideals of brightness and clarity.
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So the first one is this Japanese novelist, Junichiro Tanizaki’s 1933 essay, “In Praise of Shadows.” And this is a very small book, or a very long essay, in which Tanizaki kind of muses on his own taste, and why he designed his house in a certain way, and why he chooses food in a certain way or installs lamps in a certain way. And the point at... See more