Mike:
What seems an eon ago, at the beginning of this thread, I asked a similar question vis-a-vis Sergei Eisenstein's films and his sympathy for a more murderous regime than the Nazis, the Stalinists. I was reminded of the (probably apocryphal) tale of William Faulkner riding in stoned drunk and naked on horseback to totally disrupt his daughter's proper Southern sweet sixteen party. When she queried him as to why he did such a thing, his response was said to have been "Nobody remembers Shakespeare's children either". If this tale were true, does such a shocking autobiographical fact alter the quality of Absalom, Absalom one jot or one tittle?
But maybe philosophers are supposed to be different from artists, and the quality of their philosophy must be certified by their moral characer?
Dan Shaw
PS for a more extended account of my view of Eisenstein, see the new Great Directors profile of him in the forthcoming Senses of Cinema edition
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