Leonard Cohen and Philosophy (43 page)

     
“On Women,”
168–69

     
Parerga and Paralipomean
,
169

     
and women,
169–70

     
The World as Will and Representation
,
168

Scobie, Stephen,
144–45
,
149
,
151
,
239

Scott, Frank,
210

Second Letter to the Thessalonians,
41

self-awareness, through perception by others,
105–8

self-deception,
119

“selfish gene” (Dawkins),
243
,
252

self-knowledge, through love,
108–10

Seneca,
43

sephiroth
,
236

sephirotic tree
,
236

Sextus Empiricus,
8–10

Shakespeare, William,
129
,
181

Shakur, Tupac,
ix

Shrek
(film),
72
,
242

siguiriya
,
82

Silentio, Johannes de,
22

Simmons, Sylvie,
39
,
42
,
44
,
127

     
I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen
,
101
,
114

Simon, Carly

     
“Nobody Does It Better,”
73

     
“You’re So Vain,”
128

Simone, Nina,
67
,
128
,
130
,
131

Sinatra, Frank,
57

singer-songwriter,
58

Sisyphus,
17–18
,
20
,
24

Skeptical school of philosophy,
9

Smith, Patti,
ix

Snyder, Zack,
32

Socrates,
4–6
,
33
,
90–92
,
94
,
99–100
,
117
,
195

     
as gadfly,
4

     
and personality,
91–92

Socrates of Constantinople,
12

Socratic irony,
90–94

solitude,
134–35

Solomon, Robert,
208

Sol y Sombra
,
81

Spinoza, Baruch,
42

Stalin, Joseph,
41
,
160

Sternberg, Robert,
118

Stoic philosophy,
6
,
43

Stone, Oliver,
32

style prejudice,
60

Suger, Abbot,
233

sunyata
,
240

Surrealists,
83–84

taste, problem of,
56
,
63

Tekakwitha, Catherine,
141–42
,
146
,
150

teleology,
194–97

     
and consciousness,
200

terrorism,
222
,
226

theological traditions

     
“way of affirmation,”
233–34

     
“way of rejection,”
233–34

Third Noble Truth (Buddhism),
174

Thomas, Anjani,
170
,
223

Thoreau, Henry David,
47

The Tibetan Book of the Dead
,
228

Tindersticks (band),
78

Titus,
236

Torre, Manuel,
79
,
82
,
83

transcendent ideal, danger of,
18–19

The Treasure of the Sierra

     
Madre
(film),
244

Trudeau, Pierre,
148

Unetanneh Tokef
,
132–33

Upanishads,
173

Vaughan, Henry,
238

Vedantic tradition,
174

Venus,
114

Verdal, Suzanne,
101
,
110

Villaincourt, Armand,
101
,
110

von Trotta, Margarethe,
161

Wachowskis, the,
165

Wagner, Richard,
129
,
169

Wainwright, Rufus,
72
,
73
,
132
,
242

Waits, Tom,
ix

     
The Heart of Saturday Night
,
60

Walsh, Nick Paton,
170

Warnes, Jennifer,
69–70
,
170

     
Famous Blue Raincoat
(tribute album),
60

Watchmen
(film),
32

“way of affirmation,”
233–34

“way of rejection,”
233–34

Webster, Jason

     
Duende
,
77

Williams, Charles,
233
,
234

Williams, Hank,
98

Winnicott, Donald

     
Playing and Reality
,
106

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

     
on games,
118

     
Philosophical Investigations
,
118

     
on religion,
120

women, projections upon, as

     
distancing,
129–30

word made flesh, erasure of,
237–38

Wynands, Sandra,
159
,
165

Yetnikoff, Walter,
242

Young, Neil,
58

Zahavi, Dan

     
Husserl’s Phenomenology
,
103

Zeno of Citrium,
6

Zeus,
247

Zohar,
234