Michela Dianetti & Chiara Li Mandri say non-human beings don’t need to be persons for us to care about them. Simone Weil offers another way.
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 ...
This issue has a theme of Continental philosophy. Yet some people say there is no such thing as Continental philosophy. If so, how can we have a themed issue about it? Well, we’ve had themed issues ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...