Ancient Quote by 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 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

Mann was conscious of adopting different perspectives in different parts of the novella, but my guess is that there are plenty of passages in…

— Philip Kitcher

“MANN – WAS – MANN –”

— Christopher J. Nolan

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'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

Aschenbach is not only a projection of Mann in the obvious ways - same daily routines, author of the works Mann had planned -…

— Philip Kitcher

“I regarded it more as an honor than a disgrace to be permitted to share this fate of the complete destruction of literary existence…

— Stefan Zweig

Schopenhauer had been Hitler's philosophical god in the early days. In power it was Nietzsche.

— Ernst Hanfstaengl

Mann's Death in Venice actually contains a snippet of philosophy about the second question, when Aschenbach, collapsed in the plaza, engages in his quasi-Socratic,…

— Philip Kitcher

I read Aschenbach's constant desire to go beyond the works he has already produced to be the counterpart of Mann's deep wish to surpass…

— 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