“We live in a nightmare of falsehoods, and there are few who are sufficiently awake and aware to see things as they are. Our first duty is to clear away illusions and recover a sense of reality.”
– Nikolai Berdyaev, “Political Testament”
Read the full article which is published on Philosophy Bits (external link)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...
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philosophybits: “A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.” — Albert...
[Revised entry by Clark Glymour and Frederick Eberhardt on October 31, 2025. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Described as perhaps...
Americans spend about 17 minutes a day reading. As our literary culture deteriorates, repetition and cliché take hold
Every era produces its own forms of memoir, shaped by its particular cultural preoccupations and oversights. Enter Arundhati Roy
