“Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men
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: “Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men
Why did American literature departments prove so hospitable, or susceptible, to French theory?
In 17th-century England, a flood could be blamed on a “Papistical Conspiracy of Traitors” — but general sinfulness could not...
Simon Winchester, a charming rogue who traded geology for journalism and became a prolific and peripatetic polymath, has died. He...
