This is the strangest scene in “Three Colors: Blue,” one necessary to move along elements of the plot, but one that also feels out of place with the style and tone of the rest of the film. Julie is asleep at home when she’s awoken by a call. Lucille pleads with Julie to please come…

Now let me try to synthesize Proust and Nietzsche in the context of Rorty’s book. I’ve been thinking and writing about Rorty’s thoughts, especially as they related to Nietzsche, for more than 13 years now. I closed my Montaigne Project at the time by examining Michel de Montaigne’s essay On Experience and led off with…