“Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. […] Deprivation of this poetry explains all forms of demoralization.”
– Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
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...
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...
“Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from...
[Revised entry by Nadeem J. Z. Hussain, Lydia Patton, and Elisabeth Widmer on May 3, 2026. Changes to: Main text,...
philosophybits: “The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.” — Søren Kierkegaard, Journals
“Just as voluntary memory and utter oblivion always belonged together, organized fame and remembrance lead ineluctably to nothingness, the foretaste...
