Story Behind the Picture
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Story Behind the Picture: Phineas Gage
Phineas Gage (1823-1860) is one of the earliest recorded cases of severe brain injury in medical history. What makes Gage’s case especially interesting isn’t just his survival after the brain […]
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Story Behind the Picture: Lictors Bringing to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons
In his painting Lictors Bringing to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (1789), Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) portrays a moment from Roman history that had never been illustrated before. Even though […]
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Story Behind the Picture: The Davos Disputation
This photograph depicts Ernst Cassirer (left) and Martin Heidegger (right) at the Second Davos Hochschulkurs in Davos, Switzerland in 1929. The debate between Cassirer and Heidegger at this conference—the so-called […]
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Story Behind the Picture: The Three Urns or Olympe de Gouges’s Democratic Paradox
While the French revolution, and especially its Declaration of the Rights of Man, is often hailed as the birth of modern democracy, the actors of the revolution did not think […]
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Story Behind the Picture: The Death of Socrates
Jacques Louis David’s The Death of Socrates belongs to a genre of paintings of the Greek philosophers that seek to represent not only the philosopher but also something about their […]
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Story Behind the Picture: Maria von Herbert
(Türkçesi) This is a picture of Maria von Herbert (1770-1803), an Austrian woman, whose letter correspondence with Kant arguably poses a serious challenge to Kantian ethics. Maria von Herbert’s brother […]
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Story Behind the Picture: Sartre, Beauvoir & Steinberg
(Türkçesi) In the summer of 1946, Jean-Paul Sartre was 41 and becoming famous. At the time the photo was taken, he had just come back from and existentialism tour of […]
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