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The Will to 'Stache
http://www.english.uwosh.edu/henson/images/nietzsche.gif

tho i prefer his less threatening look before the formulation of the Will to 'Stache in his mature philosophy:
http://personales.ciudad.com.ar/M_Heidegger/Nietzsche_11.jpg

Kant goes from kinda cool:
http://www.wellesley.edu/Philosophy/Images/kant.jpg

...to very bizarre:
http://www.island-of-freedom.com/KANT.GIF

Everyone knows Heidegger in his old and corpulent days:
http://dusan.satori.sk/i/pix/heidegger.jpg

Age is a bitch:
http://dusan.satori.sk/i/pix/heidegger.jpg

Schopenhauer in his youth (yet philosophy fully formed):
http://www.anus.com/metal/about/images/schopenhauer.jpg

and getting older, tired of it all:
http://assets.cambridge.org/052162/9241/cover/0521629241.gif

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 05:49 (twenty-one years ago)

oops we double dosed on old heidegger. here is his youth:

http://personales.ciudad.com.ar/M_Heidegger/martin-heidegger.jpg

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 05:50 (twenty-one years ago)

a personal fave, Liebniz, pondering Monads:

http://www.nlb-hannover.de/Leibniz/Gesellschaft/Dokumente/Leibniz.png

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 05:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Fabulous idea for a thread. Is that second one really Nietzsche? Wow.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 21 March 2005 05:54 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah that's him. there is one without the stache that is really striking. he seems to have cultivated a pretty intimidating look for some reason. i think he resented being ill all the time.

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 05:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Camus, looking like Bogart:
http://www.thecry.com/existentialism/camus/camus06.gif

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 05:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Sartre as a young man is interesting:
http://dekart.f.bg.ac.yu/~dpajin/exis/sartre.jpg

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 05:59 (twenty-one years ago)

karl marx, the original corny indie-fuXor:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/42/KarlMarx3.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:00 (twenty-one years ago)

the very professorial ludwig wittgenstein:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/Wittgenstein2.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i feel a bit let down by Fichte:
http://www.acjournal.org/holdings/vol4/iss3/articles/fichte.jpg

but Spinoza seems kinda serene:
http://www.newgenevacenter.org/portrait/spinoza.jpg

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:02 (twenty-one years ago)

professional, and yet no tie?

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Emerson should coun. and this is charming:
http://www2.english.uiuc.edu/baym/255/emerson.jpg

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:04 (twenty-one years ago)

and of course perhaps the father of them all:
http://www.felix-en-sofie.nl/images/socrates.jpg

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Descartes, who had one of the most bizarre imaginations ever, the Meditations are a journey through evil demons, chiliagons (a thousand sided figure), balls of wax, the mystery of the cogito:
http://speed.city-net.com/~alimhaq/text/descartes.gif

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:07 (twenty-one years ago)

recently departed, looking dapper as usual. the best looking philosopher?
http://www.suhrkamp.de/autoren/derrida/derrida.jpg

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:08 (twenty-one years ago)

more an economist/sociologist than philosopher, yet still looking rather like a domesticated billy bob thorton -- thorstein veblen:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e9/Veblen3a.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:09 (twenty-one years ago)

monsieur descartes looks a bit like frank zappa in that picture -- esp the arched eyebrows.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:10 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.homestead.com/SEVENTHWONDER/files/krs-one.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Husserl, father of phenomenology, and back in style thanks to Niklas Luhmann:
http://www.ds.psu.edu/AcademicAffairs/FacultyInformation/FacultyBios/Lee/Husserl.jpg

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i once had a professor who would physically describe every philosopher we talked about, he believed it was deepy important for some reason.

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Pascal, who said that all of our troubles stem from our inability to sit quietly in a room:
http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/pascal.jpg

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:16 (twenty-one years ago)

the great Stanley Cavell, author of In Quest of the Ordinary, with his dog:
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/images/cavellsmall.jpg

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:17 (twenty-one years ago)

George Berkeley had a nose like George Washington, methinks.
http://files.athe.eta.zettai.net/etiennevermeersch/George_Berkeley.jpg_image.jpeg

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Emerson loved Montaigne:
http://www.todayinliterature.com/assets/portraits/m/michel-de-montaigne-200x320.jpg

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Hegel, Schopenhauer's arch nemesis, pondering the dialectic unfolding of Geist:
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/philosophy/awaymave/408/hegel.jpg

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:22 (twenty-one years ago)

jeremy bentham, sportin' the philosopher's mullet:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7a/Bentham.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Kierkegaard, giving Derrida a run for his money, who claimed that since he was good at nothing, he might as well become a philosopher:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/philosophy/images/kierkegaard.gif
youth and good looks hiding somber depths, however, from his journal: "I have just returned from a party of which I was the life and soul; witty banter flowed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me - but I came away, indeed that dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit wanting to shoot myself."

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:28 (twenty-one years ago)

ha that bentham is somehow perfectly how i imagined him

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:28 (twenty-one years ago)

yet another proto-corny indie-fuXor: antonio gramsci

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4b/Antonio_Gramsci.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:29 (twenty-one years ago)

another personal fav, horkheimer, about to get in your face:
http://geocities.yahoo.com.br/discursus/iconoteca/horkheim.jpg

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:31 (twenty-one years ago)

the quite magisterial david hume, as always his look reflecting his (somewhat justifiable) "i PISS on yer puny pseudo-philosophical blather!" attitude:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0e/DavidHume.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Hannah Arendt, purported stylish dresser, paramour of Heidegger, and beautiful woman:
http://www.geocities.com/hoefig_de/Fotos/Arendt1.GIF

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Hume is the man. (he looks like Humpty Dumpty there, which is ridiculously appropriate)

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:32 (twenty-one years ago)

heidegger re hannah: "i'd hit it!"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Unamuno, spaniard and author of a very important book in my life The Tragic Sense of Life, looking very cool:
http://www.wellesley.edu/Spanish/Span324/unamuno.jpg

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:40 (twenty-one years ago)

emerson is odd man out with regard to smiling (and also way ahead of his time).

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:42 (twenty-one years ago)

some favorite living philosophers.
the italian Heideggerian Gianni Vattio:
http://italialibri.net/grafica/autori/vattimo-184.jpg

and the brit Simon Critchley:
http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/helsinkiforum/photos/critchley.jpg

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:48 (twenty-one years ago)

that's vattimo by the way.

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 06:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeremy Waldron

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/pr/00/04/images/jeremyWaldron.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 21 March 2005 07:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Amy Gutmann

http://www.ssc.upenn.edu/polisci/faculty/bios/images/gutmann.jpeg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 21 March 2005 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.estherdiaz.com.ar/images/Deleuze.jpg
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~craft/craftblog/archives/images/1069033692_Deleuze.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/athens/7364/guattari.gif

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, who tried to help us out of the shadow of Oedipus and fascism, both looking as cool as you'd expect them to be. Deleuze kinda looked like Yves Montand, didn't he? Compare:

http://www.thegoldenyears.org/yves_montand.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 21 March 2005 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Unamuno again:

ihttps://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/spanishportuguese/bi/Span303_files/unamuno.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 21 March 2005 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/spanishportuguese/bi/Span303_files/unamuno.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 21 March 2005 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Jose Ortega y Gasset:

http://www.filosofia.org/ave/001/a185.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 21 March 2005 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Henri Bergson:

http://151.38.11.11/ipertesti/arte_cinema/bergson.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 21 March 2005 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Emile Cioran:

http://irmeli.jung.free.fr/cioran2.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 21 March 2005 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Richard Rorty

http://denisdutton.com/rorty.jpg

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 21 March 2005 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

uncle michel, father to us all:

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 21 March 2005 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i=http://geocities.yahoo.com.br/discursus/iconoteca/foulcaul.jpg

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 21 March 2005 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

someone fix that,im too fucking out of it

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 21 March 2005 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

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How... lovely... ^_^; I guess... pics yay...

― Azumi Kaiwa, Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:13 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

I love this thread.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Sunday, 25 June 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

wot! no mr punctum!?!

http://www.hum.aau.dk/~i12bent/barthes.jpg

Monsieur Barthes!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 25 June 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

eight years pass...

michel serres gives good face:

https://unrealnature.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/serres_portraitcolor.jpg
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/ba/c0/32/bac0322422f75be61832b5fdffd18d98.jpg

― ryan, Monday, 1 June 2015 19:40 (eleven years ago)

http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-700/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/3/12/1394644998957/Martin-Heidegger-in-1933--004.jpg

― Mordy, Monday, 1 June 2015 19:41 (eleven years ago)

are there any pictures of that weird coat or whatever that heidegger wore? i dont recall ever seeing any.

― ryan, Monday, 1 June 2015 19:42 (eleven years ago)

young agamben was good looking?
http://valentinroma.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/giorgio_agamben.png
http://www.critical-theory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/agamben.jpg

― ryan, Monday, 1 June 2015 19:46 (eleven years ago)

i love roberto esposito's work, but now i regret seeing that he looks like constanza:
http://www.revistaenie.clarin.com/ideas/Roberto_Esposito_CLAIMA20110609_0188_19.jpg

― ryan, Monday, 1 June 2015 19:47 (eleven years ago)

donna haraway looks like fun:
http://www.full-stop.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/4720049768_3fec254d99.jpeg

― ryan, Monday, 1 June 2015 19:48 (eleven years ago)

http://philosophy.uchicago.edu/faculty/files/pippin/pippin2.jpg

― Mordy, Monday, 1 June 2015 19:50 (eleven years ago)

mfw when i sit next to laruelle:
http://www.miguelabreugallery.com/events/2011_AprilEvents/Symposium/Images/01_FLaruelle_NonPhotography_MAG_2011.JPG

― ryan, Monday, 1 June 2015 19:51 (eleven years ago)

mordy who is that

― ryan, Monday, 1 June 2015 19:51 (eleven years ago)

ray brassier demonstrating good "philosophers caught in mid-philosophizing" form:
http://arika.org.uk/uninstal/2010/images/events/used_sound/gallery/pic_0.jpg

― ryan, Monday, 1 June 2015 19:53 (eleven years ago)

http://hotsite.diariodonordeste.com.br/diariouploads/uploads/c7903968e5f98115972ce6f89a72b579.jpg
paul ricoeur

― drash, Monday, 1 June 2015 22:56 (eleven years ago)

xxxp that's pippin, ryan

― j., Monday, 1 June 2015 22:58 (eleven years ago)

http://www.greatthoughtstreasury.com/sites/default/files/Jl_austin%5B1%5D.jpg
j.l. austin

― drash, Monday, 1 June 2015 22:58 (eleven years ago)

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/blanchot-levinas.jpg
maurice blanchot & emmanuel levinas

― drash, Monday, 1 June 2015 22:59 (eleven years ago)

the pic of feyerabend on this cover always cracks me up, in a "guess which way he stands on the titular issue" way

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519GsQgReJL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

― ogmor, Monday, 1 June 2015 23:00 (eleven years ago)

http://globalcenterforadvancedstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Nancy-2.jpg
jean-luc nancy

― drash, Monday, 1 June 2015 23:02 (eleven years ago)

http://www.la-croix.com/var/bayard/storage/images/lacroix/semaine-en-images/le-philosophe-jean-luc-marion-entre-a-l-academie-_ng_-2008-11-06-679962/21064428-1-fre-FR/Le-philosophe-Jean-Luc-Marion-entre-a-l-Academie_article_popin.jpg
jean-luc marion

― drash, Monday, 1 June 2015 23:02 (eleven years ago)

http://media-1.web.britannica.com/eb-media/36/100836-004-7C695D6E.jpg
hilary putnam

― drash, Monday, 1 June 2015 23:04 (eleven years ago)

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/U80brmLEPsQ/hqdefault.jpg
hans blumenberg

― drash, Monday, 1 June 2015 23:17 (eleven years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/51/Kojeve.jpg/163px-Kojeve.jpg
alexandre kojève

― drash, Monday, 1 June 2015 23:21 (eleven years ago)

bachelard with some good 19th century beard on a 20th century dude

http://www.mensagenscomamor.com/images/interna/new/frases_gaston_bachelard.jpg

― Merdeyeux, Monday, 1 June 2015 23:23 (eleven years ago)

hilary putnam

shiteating grin set in over time from frequent changes in position

― j., Monday, 1 June 2015 23:24 (eleven years ago)

^otm

― drash, Monday, 1 June 2015 23:26 (eleven years ago)

don't think anyone nailed the '1970s feminist' archetype quite as shulamith firestone did

http://www.wermodandwermod.com/newsitems/Shulamith%20Firestone%202.jpg

― Merdeyeux, Monday, 1 June 2015 23:26 (eleven years ago)

love that bachelard pic.

the end of the philosophy beard one of the more regrettable 20th century turns in philosophy. wittgenstein to blame?

― ryan, Monday, 1 June 2015 23:47 (eleven years ago)

wilfred sellars almost has a mike ditka thing going on
http://www.ditext.com/sellars/memoriam/office.jpg

― ryan, Monday, 1 June 2015 23:51 (eleven years ago)

xp we'd all like to be as handsome as wittgenstein but we philosophers should probably accept that the more we can hide our faces the better.

in contemporary terms i associate the huge philosophy beard almost exclusively with the eccentric end of analytic philosophy, e.g. robert brandom:

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-tJThDkZGtkI/TXtrrhX6PII/AAAAAAAACp8/VxtpGSE004E/s1600/picture-12.png

― Merdeyeux, Monday, 1 June 2015 23:56 (eleven years ago)

http://www.iep.utm.edu/wp-content/media/Maimonides.jpg

― Mordy, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 00:04 (eleven years ago)

"The image is certainly from 1744, but the editor of the Thesaurus antiquitatum sacrarum claimed that it was copied from an old image."

― Mordy, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 00:07 (eleven years ago)

two months pass...

http://www.contributors.ro/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Prof_Leszek_Kolakowski_3445932.jpg
leszek kolakowski

― drash, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 19:16 (ten years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Nietzsche_paul-ree_lou-von-salome188.jpg
nietzsche (with lou andreas-salomé & paul rée)

― drash, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 19:19 (ten years ago)

http://newepicurean.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/HeraclitusJohannes_Moreelse_01-e1389105645880.jpg
heraclitus & democritus (fond of this motif)

― drash, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 19:21 (ten years ago)

http://www.philosophybasics.com/photos/pyrrho.jpg
pyrrho

― drash, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 19:21 (ten years ago)

wasn't looking, nose lost in threshing mishap

― j., Tuesday, 18 August 2015 19:40 (ten years ago)

lol too indifferent re what was in front of him

― drash, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 19:48 (ten years ago)

http://www.sacredheartfla.org/images/Duns_Scotus1.jpg

― corbyn's gallus (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 19:57 (ten years ago)

https://clevecallisonsblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/william_of_ockham_-_logica_1341.jpg
william of ockham

― drash, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 20:07 (ten years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.scholarlyediting.org/2014/editions/cranchjournal/Cranch_Emerson_Ecstasy_drawing.png

― jmm, Monday, 28 September 2015 16:08 (ten years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/30/benjaminibiza_FINAL.jpg
Jean Selz (left), Paul Gauguin (the painter’s grandson), Walter Benjamin, and fisherman Tomás Varó (with hat) sailing in the bay of San Antonio, May 1933.

― drash, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 13:06 (ten years ago)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9CVFDxgSZjk/T2IHVBA9dyI/AAAAAAAAAL0/wD3YhfJw38g/s1600/adorno+at+the+beach.jpg
adorno

― drash, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 13:06 (ten years ago)

three weeks pass...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Thomas_Nagel_teaching_Ethics.JPG

― j., Monday, 23 November 2015 03:53 (ten years ago)

six years pass...

Arthur Danto with Wise Puffy Cheese Doodles

https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/arthur-danto-with-wise-puffy-cheese-doodles-irene-caesar.jpg

― jmm, Monday, 24 October 2022 16:49 (three years ago)

OMG!

― 2-4-6-8 Motor Away (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 24 October 2022 16:49 (three years ago)

Is he evaluating that as a work of art?

― 2-4-6-8 Motor Away (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 24 October 2022 16:50 (three years ago)

This is what's left after the End of Art.

― jmm, Monday, 24 October 2022 17:28 (three years ago)

I saw a copy of this recently and almost bought it just for the cover.

https://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780140219821-us-300.jpg

― jmm, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 13:07 (three years ago)

Met somebody who was related to him and kept talking about Freddie but I can’t remember any of it.

― 2-4-6-8 Motor Away (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 13:09 (three years ago)

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