Saturday, November 04, 2006
Name that philosopher
So I'm cruising department websites while working on job applications, and I see this page which is decorated with unlabeled pictures of philosophers. I cannot recognize the last three on the lower right. Also, I'm assuming the picture on the far left is Wittgenstein on a bad hair day, but it is not a photo I've seen before. Any ideas?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
6 comments:
Foucault, Derrida, and dunno . . .
Comments are being funky . . .
I believe the dude on the far lower right is Stanley Cavell of Harvard, although what he's doing up there with all those others is beyond me.
Looking at the filenames of the images is sort of helpful in this case.
Mouse over shows last one is named cavell.jpg--wouldn't have guessed otherwise.
ok, I should have realizes I could do the file name thing.
That's a famous picture of Foucault, in which, as far as I can tell, he's doing his Uncle Fester impression (an impression he repeats in this photo:
http://www.leksikon.org/images/foucault_michel.jpg)
OMG, I'd never thought of Foucault as Uncle Fester before... but the picture so fits! All that stuff on torture will never be quite the same for me again.
Post a Comment