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How Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger’s Relationship Can Inform Our Current Crises

How Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger’s Relationship Can Inform Our Current Crises

Joshua Corey Investigates a “Poetics of the World” in His Latest Book

By Joshua Corey | May 13, 2021

What is a Philosopher? A Laughingstock, an Absentminded Buffoon?

What is a Philosopher? A Laughingstock, an Absentminded Buffoon?

Simon Critchley is Unafraid to Ask the Hard Questions

By Simon Critchley | April 27, 2021

On Exploring Philosophy in Fiction and Autobiography: A Reading List

On Exploring Philosophy in Fiction and Autobiography: A Reading List

Tom Whyman Recommends CLR James, Theodor Adorno, and More

By Tom Whyman | April 26, 2021

Why People Are Still Mad About Thomas Nagel's 1974 Essay,

Why People Are Still Mad About Thomas Nagel's 1974 Essay, "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"

Lit Century Podcast with Sandra Newman
and Catherine Nichols">This week on the Lit Century Podcast with Sandra Newman
and Catherine Nichols

By Lit Century | March 23, 2021

Simone Weil’s Radical Conception of Attention

Simone Weil’s Radical Conception of Attention

Robert Zaretsky on the Philosophy of Negative Effort

By Robert Zaretsky | March 9, 2021

Deprived of Touch?">What Happens When We Are <brDeprived of Touch?">

Deprived of Touch?">What Happens When We Are
Deprived of Touch?

Sushma Subramanian on the Paradoxes of Solitude and Intimacy

By Sushma Subramanian | February 22, 2021

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What Richard Wollheim Taught Us About the ‘Finished State’ of a Person

By Sheila Heti | February 2, 2021

In Defense of Writing Books That May Never Be Read

By Mark de Silva | January 27, 2021

On the Uses of Boredom: Philosophical, Scientific, Literary

By Martha Cooley | January 13, 2021

How Come We Don't Have a Philosophy of Wigs?

How Come We Don't Have a Philosophy of Wigs?

Luigi Amara on the Curious Place of Hair Pieces in the Age of Enlightenment 

By Luigi Amara | November 24, 2020

Oscar Levant and Oscar Wilde: Masters of Staving Off Melancholy with Wit

Oscar Levant and Oscar Wilde: Masters of Staving Off Melancholy with Wit

David Lazar on Two Wounded Men Who Frustrated Expectations

By David Lazar | November 9, 2020

Why We Love Books">Michiko Kakutani on <brWhy We Love Books">

Why We Love Books">Michiko Kakutani on
Why We Love Books

The Origins of Totalitarianism Today">And on Relevance of Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism Today

By Michiko Kakutani | October 26, 2020

What Heidegger's Nazism Means for Modern Philosophy

What Heidegger's Nazism Means for Modern Philosophy

New Books Network's Book of the Day Podcast"> From the New Books Network's Book of the Day Podcast

By New Books Network | October 19, 2020

On Jewish Community and Identity in Jacques Derrida's Algeria

On Jewish Community and Identity in Jacques Derrida's Algeria

Peter Salmon Considers the Philosopher's Early Life

By Peter Salmon | October 14, 2020

Angela Davis on International Solidarity and the Future of Black Radicalism

Angela Davis on International Solidarity and the Future of Black Radicalism

"Learning that resistance was possible was an invaluable dimension of my education."

By Verso Books | August 31, 2020

Learning to Appreciate the Small Things From a 1,000-Year-Old Japanese Writer

Learning to Appreciate the Small Things From a 1,000-Year-Old Japanese Writer

Eric Weiner on Reading Sei Shōnagon

By Eric Weiner | August 28, 2020

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