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Robert Wyllie and Steven Knepper
19 min read
"Five Ways to Read Byung-Chul Han": An Essay by Robert Wyllie and Steven Knepper (Keywords: Hyperculture; Burnout; Zen Buddhism; Social Critique; Beauty; Continental Philosophy)
"Han implies that philosophy is not for professional philosophers but for everyone, so that we can better understand our exhausting times."
Mary Peterson
10 min read
“On Cancelling and Repair”: An essay by Mary Peterson (Keywords: Sexual Harassment; Restorative Justice; Carceral Feminism; himpathy; Trauma; Universities)
"For restorative justice to work, the perpetrators’ delusions, entitlement, rationalizations, and smearing of victims must stop."
Adam Ferner
9 min read
"The Philosophy of Parenting: Ambivalence in an Age of Choice": Adam Ferner reviews What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice by Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman (Macmillan, 2024)
"Irrespective of philosophical arguments, babies will still be born. Many of these babies will find themselves alone and in need of parents"
Heather King
7 min read
"Metaphorizing Animals": An Essay by Heather King (Keywords: Animals; Art; Literature; Selfhood)
"What sort of selves do literary works create? More broadly still, what kinds of selves does any manner of artwork create?"
Samantha Rose Hill
11 min read
"Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition": A conversation with Samantha Rose Hill (Keywords: Violence; Technology; Alienation; Freedom; Democracy)
"How do we think about a new political imaginary that is connected to, yet distinct from, technology?"
Alexandre Lefebvre and Nils F. Schott
17 min read
"Freedom Regained: Henri Bergson at the Collège de France": A conversation with Alexandre Lefebvre and Nils F. Schott (Keywords: Freedom; Determinism; Time; Memory; History of Philosophy)
From The Philosopher, vol. 112, no. 2 (" Violence ") If you enjoy reading this, please consider becoming a patron or making a small...
Caleb Ward
15 min read
"Inheriting the Poetry of Survival": Caleb Ward reviews "Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Keywords: Poetry; Biography; Black Feminism)
"Something as insubstantial as a poetic image, if it touches on some truth or real feeling, can launch transformations."
Henry A. Giroux
13 min read
"Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed": A conversation with Henry A. Giroux (Keywords: Violence; Critical Pedagogy; Neoliberalism; Hope)
"Hope is not only an educational practice, it is about social change and collective struggle. Hope is fundamentally social."
Isabelle Laurenzi
20 min read
"Reclaim or Let Go?": Isabelle Laurenzi reviews The Joy of Consent by Manon Garcia and The Feminist Killjoy Handbook by Sara Ahmed (Keywords: Desire; Feminism; Emancipation; Conceptual Engineering)
"If Ahmed’s sources of killjoy inspiration dislodge a reader’s sense of the most important feminist thinkers, all the better."
Chiara Ambrosio and Ian James Kidd
12 min read
"Pseudoscience after Feyerabend": Chiara Ambrosio and Ian James Kidd (Keywords: Epistemology; Objectivity; Science; Authority; Astrology)
"The criteria we use to discuss science and pseudoscience are incredibly context dependent."
Jason Blakely and Oliver Traldi
13 min read
"Ideology and Political Belief": A Conversation with Jason Blakely and Oliver Traldi (Keywords: Epistemology; Hermeneutics; Anthropology; Objectivity; Science)
"If ideologies are cultures, they need to be learned. You can convert in and out of them, just as with religions."
Ian Olasov
10 min read
"Public": An Essay by Ian Olasov (Keywords: Humanities; Intellectuals; Education; History of Philosophy; Activism)
"Whatever else the history of philosophy is, it is the history of the tensions between philosophy’s public-facing and scholastic tendencies"
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