Read the full article which is published on Philosophy Bits (external link)“Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.”
— Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Foucault’s critique of power and knowledge shaped poststructuralism, yet its rejection of truth risks becoming its own orthodoxy. To remain...
This is Part 4 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
This is Part 3 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
This is Part 2 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
philosophybits: “Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.” — Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of...
“The a priori reduction to the friend-enemy relationship is one of the primal phenomena of the new anthropology. Freedom would...
To Harold Bloom, he was an “American Proust.” To New York magazine, he was “THE GENIUS.” To himself, Harold Brodkey...
Wittgenstein’s self-recriminations: He was an ambivalent Jew, a brutal teacher, a bad soldier, an occasional masturbator
