Hamish Ford (2012) Post-War Modernist Cinema and Philosophy: Confronting Negativity and Time

That Philosophy as Epistemological-Based is Not Debased: A Critique of Post-Modernist/Hermeneutic Critique of Traditional Philosophy

Over the centuries, beginning with the classic Greeks through the trends of the mid-20th century, philosophical enterprise has been intricately and seemingly irretrievably rooted in the theory of the given—an edification of philosophy as that giant mirror and standard for measuring what counts as knowledge; but is it thus synonymous with or reducible to epistemology? How or why? There are two a...

being, time and cinema a study of the philosophy of henri bergson on gilles deleuze's philosophy of cinema

in addition to his revolutionary philosophy and his fundamental criticism on psychoanalysis to which he owes his fame, gilles deleuze, the great philosopher, devotes an important part of his thought to formulating the ontology of cinematic image and hence turned out to be known as the only philosopher of cinema. thanks to the multiple classifications of images and creating philosophical concept...

War, Peace, and Cinema: Excerpts from the Foreign Policy of the USA with a Look at Stanley Kubrick’s Cinema

The notion of peace, regardless of theorizations accepted in th field and since the                  Enlightenment Period, and the era known as Modernism, has, constantly, been one of the challenges of mankind, and also scientists in the field of political sciences and international relations.  Contrary to the presentation of the idea of peace and respect to the human rights in some of the fore...

Philosophy and The Human Inheritance in a Post-Western World

The dissolution of the Western-dominated Postwar Order, and the Eurocentric myths that sustain it, presents a unique opportunity to ponder an old question posed by every new generation: How can philosophy, which Islamic and ancient Greek learning traditions have long defined as the pursuit of “wisdom,” resume its millennial civilizing role? This paper looks beyond passing political events to re...

Confronting the Minotaur: Moral Inversion and Polanyi’s Moral Philosophy