Alan Kirby says postmodernism is dead and buried. In its place comes a new paradigm of authority and knowledge formed under the pressure of new technologies and contemporary social forces. I have in ...

Philippa Foot has for decades been one of Oxford’s best-known and most original ethicists. Her groundbreaking papers won her worldwide recognition but at the dawn of the new century she has finally ...

Anti-Oedipus started for D&G with a mutual agreement with Freud’s early understanding of the subconscious, and a shared disagreement with Freud’s departure from it. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) started ...

Daneyal Afaqui critiques modern work culture, with input from Theodor Adorno. Modern capitalism often phrases the concept of freedom in terms of productivity, entrepreneurship, and self-optimization.

Jobs bonanza as AI companies recruit philosophers • Researchers learn to ‘unwrap’ charred philosophy scrolls from Herculaneum — News reports by Anja Steinbauer Philosophy is emerging as an unlikely ...

When environmentalists push to give rivers, whales, or forests legal personhood, the idea sounds both strange and promising. But when such legal recognitions take place, often things can get ...

T.S. Carney on Ernst Jünger and internal sovereignty. In periods of political strain, dissent is often recast as disloyalty and criticism as sabotage. The more centralized and rhetorically charged a ...

Muzainy Shahiefisally argues that Foucault really is on the side of freedom. The ‘godfather of postmodernism’, Michel Foucault (1926-1984), has long been deemed an enemy by defenders of classical ...

Ayten Nevzat watches philosophy give birth to a science. How would you explain human experience? This question is addressed by two separate fields, which travel very different paths to get there. Both ...

‘More songs about Buildings and Food’ was the title of a 1978 album by the rock band Talking Heads. It was about all the things rock stars normally don’t sing about. Pop songs are usually about ...

Analytic philosophy emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, pioneered by thinkers like Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, G.E. Moore, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. What united them was ...

Raymond Tallis watches freedom disappear in a puff of Heideggerian smoke. It’s one of the ironies of the history of philosophy that Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was embraced as a father of the ...