Absolved of the Absolute
Frédéric Neyrat is someone to whom we should be paying attention.
Philosophy & Religion
"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry System
A review of Ryan White's book on pragmatism and posthumanism in American thought.
Manifesto for an Intellectual and Political Counteroffensive
Translated by Adam Briscoe
Power, Powerlessness, Thinking, and Future
Translated by Daniel Ross
An Interrupted Connection
Hans Bredow's world project highlights the central connecting threads of Markus Krajewski's failed global ventures prior to World War I.
The Questionable Orthodoxy of Genres
“Hybrid genres,” and the questionable orthodoxy of traditional genres, are subjects that continue to vex literary theory.
Are You Out of Your Mind?
We are living through an unprecedented crisis of attention.
Not a Donkey
Buruma's essays are not polemical or revisionist. Instead, he constantly retouches, rethinks, contrasts, usually and mordantly laying cant and dogma to rest.
Radio and Child: Walter Benjamin as Broadcaster
Any serious history of children and radio — any history going beyond a chronicle of program offerings — must include the German writer Walter Benjamin.
The Return to Kant
The "context" in question in Reidar Maliks’s careful exposition of the development of Immanuel Kant’s political philosophy is primarily twofold.
Why Liberalism Needs Islam
American and European missionaries of liberalism are trying to proselytize Muslims to the system of values of Western liberalism.
Difficult Terrain Ahead, Guide Recommended
Smith has, for the most part, done an excellent job of condensing the key themes and concerns of "A Secular Age" into fewer than 150 pages.
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