Philosophy & Religion

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

• Fail Slow, Fail Hard

  Once you start looking for them, Heideggerians are everywhere. Stop hiding from Heidegger.

  Martin WoessnerAug 28, 2015

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  The Writer Postponed: Barthes at the BnF

  Barthes at the BNF: the museum presents a panorama of his work.

  Andrew GallixAug 23, 2015

  • Literary Criticism

  • Philosophy & Religion

• Peaking Behind the Curtains of Adieux

  With "Tomb(e)," Cixous pierces into the nature of love and jealousy.

  Benjamin CrockettAug 13, 2015

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  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.

  Costica Bradatan, Robert ZaretskyAug 12, 2015

  • Philosophy & Religion

• 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.

  Anna KornbluhAug 7, 2015

  • Philosophy & Religion

• From Socrates to Bin Laden

  "Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers" is a stimulating spiritual journey through an essential topic of human existence.

  Norman ManeaAug 1, 2015

  • Philosophy & Religion

• The Moments of Realism

  That the Marxist critic Fredric Jameson's new book, "The Antinomies of Realism," should take up the 19th-century realist novelists will strike some as inevitable.

  Ben ParkerJul 28, 2015

  • Philosophy & Religion

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  Rock Your World (Or, Theory Class Needs an Upgrade)

  Humanities scholars are getting used to talking about reality again — only it’s not your granddaddy’s reality.

  Timothy MortonJul 28, 2015

  • Philosophy & Religion

  • SF

• Taking Things By Surprise

  The Life of Things, the Love of Things by Remo Bodei arrives at an interesting moment in the burgeoning conversation about objects, things, and matter.

  Julian YatesJul 21, 2015

  • Philosophy & Religion

• Company of One: The Fate of Democracy in an Age of Neoliberalism

  Dr. Peter Gratton explores and critiques two separate authors takes on the fate of democracy.

  Peter GrattonJul 15, 2015

  • Philosophy & Religion

• The Anthropoid Condition

  An interview with John Durham Peters: a wide-ranging intellectual with a graceful prose style, a talent for synthesis, and a way with aphorisms.

  Brían HanrahanJul 10, 2015

  • Philosophy & Religion

• Comedite Ergo Sum

  I eat, therefore I am.

  Patrick J. MurrayJul 9, 2015

  • Philosophy & Religion