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"On Words and Images: Some reflections on Twombly, Homer and Nietzsche"

Dennis Schmidt

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Event Date: Wednesday, March 08, 2000
Location: Slought Foundation at University of Pennsylvania
Theorizing Series | Organized by Aaron Levy, Gregory Flaxman

Caption: Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003

Full title: "On Words and Images: Some reflections on Twombly, Homer and Nietzsche, or 'Like a fire that consumes all before it....'"


Dennis Schmidt is professor of philosophy at Villanova University. He is the author of The Ubiquity of the Finite: Hegel, Heidegger and the Entitlements of Philosophy and the translator of Ernst Bloch's Natural Law and Human Dignity.

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