February 13, 2009
Lights, Camera, Introspection!
Could a pot-bellied, snub-nosed, bald-headed actor with bulging eyes who waddles play Socrates in a movie? That is what Socrates supposedly looked like. What about Hegel? He has been described as an unimposing professor who halted and stuttered during lectures. How might he come off on the big screen? Or Sartre, with his walleye? Could those philosophers be convincingly portrayed on film, or even portray themselves? Could they impart the gist of their thinking?
Astra Taylor, a Canadian
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