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.
Philosophy & Religion
"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Comedite Ergo Sum
I eat, therefore I am.
On Aesthetics and Mentality in Speculative Philosophy Today
The rediscovery of Alfred North Whitehead.
A Laboratory Sitting on a Graveyard: Greece and the Neoliberal Debt Crisis
The dream of EU membership did not mean achieving liberal democracy, as advertised, but being thrown to the wolves of neoliberal capitalism.
Mapping the Wander Lines: The Quiet Revelations of Fernand Deligny
Fernand Deligny rejected psychiatric categories of thought around autism, and embraced instead ways of thinking around states of being, and wandering lines.
Susan Sontag: Critic and Crusader
Steve Wasserman's opus on Susan Sontag, critic and crusader.
The Prophets Leave Hometown: Three Physicists Try Philosophy
Three physicists try their hands and minds writing philosophy.
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