PostScript

The novel follows a symbologist, Robert Langdon and a cryptologist, Sophie Neveu as they unravel the mystery behind a murder related to the secret of the Holy Grail, which involves Opus Dei and the Catholic Church. It presents a world infiltrated with secret societies desperately intent on suppressing precious information. Their secrecy is threatened by art connoisseurs and cryptology experts, who seek to unravel the mystery of the murder of a prominent figure connected to another secret…

I have read the murder mystery novel And Then There Were None, that is written by English writer Agatha Christie, publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, year of the first publication: 1939 (as Ten Little Niggers), number of pages: 252. This novel is known as her masterpiece and said to be the most difficult and popular of her books. In this excellent book by narrative techniques she describes the Soldier Island’s landscape, the weather that sometimes seems gloomy and threatening, each of the…

One abundantly clear attribute each of the novels share, is their reliance on allusion and irony throughout the texts. Umberto Eco describes the place of irony and humor in postmodern works of literature brilliantly, in the postscript of The Name of the Rose, when he writes, “The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently”…

What is the best picture we can have of ourselves? Is it true that we resemble avocados with a constant bio-mental center or general human substance, or would we say we are more similar to an onion or an artichoke shaped by layers of "society, authentic age, textuality, class, ethnicity, sex, age, level of social force" (261)? The inquiries are particularly human. As the twentieth century analyst Abraham Maslow finished up, "The inconvenience is that the human species is the main species which…

Faith and religion have a multitude of meanings across peoples, cultures, and times. However, one thing that has remained unchanged over millions of years is our conflicting subjective views of it. Whether we embrace or reject the concepts of faith and religion on a personal level, there’s no denying that these concepts have had a major influence on shaping our societies and philosophical thought throughout time. Dissenters of the ‘religious status quo’, Soren Kierkegaard and Fredrich Nietzsche,…

The word paradigm has its etymological roots in Late Latin and Greek; the word paradigma means a pattern or example and paradeigma means pattern, precedent, or exemplar (Harper). Philosophers often credit Thomas Kuhn with popularizing the word as it is used in modern times—after the publication of Kuhn 's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1962, the usage of paradigm in published works skyrocketed (Ngram Viewer-Paradigm). In Structure, Kuhn first introduces paradigms as achievements…

death, and this obsession is never more explicit than in his essays which study the impact and artistry of violence: ‘On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Art’ (1827), ‘A Second Paper on Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts’ (1839) and its ‘Postscript’ (1854); ‘On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth’ (1823); and ‘The English Mail-Coach’ (1849). By allying the murderer with the artist, and discussing the brutality of the contemporary Ratcliffe Highway murders alongside fictionalised…

The philosophers of old explored the meaning of human existence, and modern philosophers are no closer to finding the answer. Most people consider the presence of the human condition to be a sort of existential trap, in which humanity is doomed to live out an eternal cycle of suffering. However, in reality, it is more like a path all people must walk in order to achieve their potential. In order to grow, a person must experience each individual section of the human condition, whether it be…

David Hume, a British empiricist in the mid seventeen-hundreds, is well known for his belief that experience does not provide evidence for the idea of causality. Hume believed that by assuming causality (the idea of cause and effect) to be an absolute, we are taking the notion for granted. Hume challenges us to look at cause and effect based on experience, asking us to question what and how we can truly know about causation. What Hume focuses on in this question are the concepts (particularly…

Toyo Ito in “Diagram Architecture” describes the architecture of Kazuyo Seijima and the spirit of her structures as ‘diagram architecture’ for the close similarity between the buildings themselves and the scale drawings representing them. Thus, Sejima’s works of architecture merge with the diagrams, as the diagrams showing functional conditions are transformed into constructed spatial forms in the greatest brevity. For Sejima, the architectural convention of planning rests mainly on the spatial…