At the Existentialist Café (64 page)

57
  Clearing: Murdoch, ‘
Sein und Zeit
: pursuit of Being’, in Broackes (ed.),
Iris Murdoch, Philosopher
, 97.

58
  Benet’s puzzlement: Murdoch,
Jackson’s Dilemma
, 13–14.

59
  ‘I am small’: ibid., 47.

60
  Jackson’s last thoughts: ibid., 248–9.

Chapter 14: The Imponderable Bloom

1
    On existentialism in films, see Jean-Pierre Boulé & Enda McCaffrey (eds),
Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema
(New York & Oxford: Berghahn, 2011), William C. Pamerleau,
Existentialist Cinema
(Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), and others.

2
    Malick: see Thomas Deane Tucker & Stuart Kendall (eds),
Terrence Malick: film and philosophy
(London: Continuum, 2011), Martin Woessner, ‘What Is Heideggerian Cinema?’,
New German Critique
, 38 (2) (2011), 129–57, and Simon Critchley, ‘Calm: on Terrence Malick’s
The Thin Red Line’, Film-Philosophy
, 6 (38) (Dec. 2002), available online at
http://www.film-philosophy.com/vol6-2002/n48critchley
. Malick translated Heidegger’s
The Essence of Reasons
(Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1969).

3
    Out of control: for a fascinating example of this genre, see Daniel Kahnemann,
Thinking Fast and Slow
(New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011).

4
    Research on belief in freedom: J. Baggini,
Freedom Regained
(London: Granta, 2015), 35, citing K. D. Vohs and J. W. Schooler, ‘The Value of Believing in Free Will: encouraging a belief in determinism increases cheating’,
Psychological Science
, 19 (1) (2008), 49–54. Subjects who had read a passage implying that behaviour is deterministic were more inclined to cheat on a task than those who had not.

5
    ‘To think is to confine yourself’: Heidegger, ‘The Thinker as Poet’, in
Poetry, Language, Thought
, 1–14, this 4.

6
    Heidegger lacking heart: Murdoch, Heidegger manuscript (typed version, corrected in her hand), Murdoch Archives at the University of Kingston, KUAS6/5/1/4, 53.

7
    ‘He was born’: Kisiel,
Genesis
, 287, citing MS transcript of the first Aristotle lecture (1 May 1924), 1.

8
    Heidegger’s life of no interest: Petzet,
Encounters and Dialogues
, 1. It must be said that Husserl also showed little interest in biographical details; in this respect, they shared a similar conception of the phenomenological enterprise.

9
    ‘Everything that he said’: Fest,
Not I
, 265.

10
  ‘Against himself’: FOC, 273. For an appreciative assessment of Sartre’s dynamism, see Barnes,
An Existentialist Ethics
, 448.

11
  ‘If one rereads all my books’: this remark was quoted back to him in an interview by Michel Contat; Sartre agreed with it. Sartre, ‘Self-Portrait at Seventy’, in
Sartre in the Seventies
(
Situations X
), 3–92, this 20.

12
  ‘It seems to me’ and ‘To put it briefly’: Beauvoir,
Adieux
, 436.

13
  ‘And yet we’ve lived’: ibid., 445.

14
  ‘Nothing technological’: Heidegger, ‘The Question Concerning Technology’, in
The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays
, 3–35, this 4.

15
  ‘Ultra-rapid computing machine’: Heinemann,
Existentialism and the Modern Predicament
, 26, 28.

16
  Internet: Dreyfus,
On the Internet
, 1–2. On the other hand, Don Ihde has argued that Heidegger’s philosophy is not relevant to modern technologies, since Heidegger was thinking mainly of the industrial era: Don Ihde,
Heidegger’s Technologies: postphenomenological perspectives
(New York: Fordham University Press, 2010), 117–20.

17
  ‘I see something like you’ and ‘The imponderable bloom’: E. M. Forster, ‘The Machine Stops’, in
Collected Short Stories
(London: Penguin, 1954), 109–46, this 110–11. Originally published in the
Oxford and Cambridge Review
(Nov. 1909).

18
  ‘Embodied cognition’: see, for example, George Lakoff & Mark Johnson,
Philosophy in the Flesh: the embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought
(New York: Basic Books, 1999), Mark Rowlands,
The New Science of the Mind
(Cambridge, MA & London: Bradford/MIT Press, 2010), and Shaun Gallagher,
How the Body Shapes the Mind
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005).

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