...the task of helping us find common ground across polarized divides (Read, 2021). Yet, despite its potential benefits in a wide range of cases, efforts to find common ground are...
Hannah Read is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Wake Forest. She completed her PhD in Philosophy at Duke, her MA in Philosophy at Tufts, and her BA in Philosophy and...
...desires, not just their rational minds. Looking at the unrequited love of Nietzsche for Lou Salomé, Sartre’s open relationship with Simone de Beauvoir, Heidegger’s affair with Hannah Arrandt, and Foucault’s...
...improves our hermeneutical skills, as they require us to read between the lines, to learn about historical, sociological, religious, and monetary contexts—and about the art of indirect argumentation and presentation....
...read Butler’s words back in 2020 when I was a temporary lecturer, and they continue to haunt me. I was teaching online, had access to high-quality masks, and was able...
This edition of Philosophy and the Mirror of Technology is the second installment of a two-part interview with Sean Kelly. Read the first part here. Last week we began a...
...to think. As noted critic of totalitarianism Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) explained in a famous essay, thinking by its very nature is intrinsically socially disruptive. Consequently, those who admire the status...
...I realised that her philosophical ideas were there all along, layered and hidden in her novels. Murdoch’s philosophical work is a joy to read. Together with Marije Hannah Altorf, I translated three of...
...was awarded the Auschwitz Foundation Stichting Prize, with a focus on the political thought of Hannah Arendt and the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas and contemporary Jewish thought. Her current research is...
...the historical a priori. How did you come to work on this concept? Lynne: I became interested in the historical a priori in Foucault when I read Amy Allen’s book, The Politics of Ourselves, especially the chapter...
