“I fully believe in the dignity of all needful labor. All honest effort to better human conditions is entitled to respect.”
— Frederick Douglass, “Blessings of Liberty and Education (1894)”
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: “I fully believe in the dignity of all needful labor. All honest effort to better human conditions is entitled...
In his lecture Was heißt Denken? (What Is Called Thinking?), delivered as part of his 1951-52 university lecture courses in...
“The abstruse philosophy, being founded on a turn of mind, which cannot enter into business and action, vanishes when the...
philosophybits: “Frequently knowledge is treated as an end in itself, and then the goal becomes to heap it up and...
