“Nobody knows what he is doing because the future is being done, action is being done by a ‘we’ and not an ‘I.’ Only if I were the only one acting could I foretell the consequences of what I’m doing. What actually happens is entirely contingent, and contingency is indeed one of the biggest factors in all history.”
— Hannah Arendt, “Interview with Roger Errera”, The New York Review of Books (26 October 1978)
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: “Nobody knows what he is doing because the future is being done, action is being done by a ‘we’...
suliqyre:Remember to pay attention to your attention. Allow it to be open and free, so that your awareness will expand,...
“In the end the comprehensibility of a phenomenon rests on faith and will. If I make a secret of an...
philosophybits: “To philosophize is to learn how to die or to rise to divinity — to know being as Being.”...
