Attraction Quote by 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

The classical allusions and the Platonic disquisitions on beauty are no longer a form of cover, but integral to Aschenbach's complex sexuality. Moreover, the…

— 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

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

— 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

conclude, what Thomas Mann really wanted was a limited physical relationship with beautiful young men: the opportunity to gaze at them, an occasional touch,…

— 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

There's a disciplined erotic component to it, so that the height of sexual contact is the embrace, the modest touch, a relatively chaste kiss.…

— Philip Kitcher

Wilhelmine Germany was hostile to the expression of same-sex love - and, of course, Mann would have known of the fate of Oscar Wilde.…

— 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

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

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