The Questionable Orthodoxy of Genres
“Hybrid genres,” and the questionable orthodoxy of traditional genres, are subjects that continue to vex literary theory.
Philosophy & Religion
"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry
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.
Fail Slow, Fail Hard
Once you start looking for them, Heideggerians are everywhere. Stop hiding from Heidegger.
The Writer Postponed: Barthes at the BnF
Barthes at the BNF: the museum presents a panorama of his work.
Peaking Behind the Curtains of Adieux
With "Tomb(e)," Cixous pierces into the nature of love and jealousy.
The Idea of Europe
Costica Bradatan and Robert Zaretsky on George Stiener and "The Idea of Europe" as a place defined more by philosophy than economics.
Road to Nowhere
Toscano and Kinkle draw on Fredric Jameson's "aesthetic of cognitive mapping" to present "cartography" as a metaphor for the kind of beauty that builds knowledge.
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