Adopting Quote by Philip Kitcher

I don't think readers of Mann have overlooked the fact that he was a great ironist, but they have tended to see the irony…

— Philip Kitcher

Mann was less interested, I think, in constructing any kind of "portrait of an age" than he was in delineating an individual consciousness in…

— Philip Kitcher

“MANN – WAS – MANN –”

— Christopher J. Nolan

I suggest in my own discussion of this episode, Mann invites us to set the attempt to philosophize about his predicament in the context…

— Philip Kitcher

Consider the different narrative styles within the story, and the glee with which the "moralistic narrator" celebrates Aschenbach's fall - maybe, then, this is…

— Philip Kitcher

Mann was profoundly influenced by two philosophers, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, who returned to the most ancient of all philosophical questions - "How to live?"…

— Philip Kitcher

In working towards ways of reading Mann, so that his own advances in suggesting new perspectives will become more vivid, I do some fairly…

— Philip Kitcher

I found a deep kinship between Mahler's recurrent attempts to confront all sides of life and to affirm himself in the face of his…

— Philip Kitcher

“Thomas Mann that “a writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

— Alexandra Johnson

Mann's sexuality and his attitudes towards it are extremely complex - and the complexities are inherited in the figure of Aschenbach. Mann had lived…

— Philip Kitcher

Mann is widely recognized as a master of irony and ambiguity, yet it's remarkable how quickly people foreclose options he carefully leaves open. Lots…

— Philip Kitcher

Presenting Aschenbach as a composer - based on Mahler - leads to some dreadful scenes (especially those in which Aschenbach is berated by his…

— Philip Kitcher