Philosophy

Ce N’est Pas un Président Ce N’est Pas un Président

All I want is the truth. Just gimme some truth.       --John Lennon Florida's electoral mishegoss lends itself to the exploration of an issu...

Dec 7, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

Butler: Is It All Greek? Butler: Is It All Greek?

Judith Butler, who is a Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, is a troublemaker. She announced as much when sh...

Nov 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Georgette Fleischer

‘The Big Discourse’ ‘The Big Discourse’

Unusually sensitive to the fast-changing character of liberal social structures, C. Wright Mills proved impervious to the bitter ironies of reform.

Sep 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / John Summers

The New World Order (They Mean It) The New World Order (They Mean It)

The United States never held a large number of direct colonies, a fact that has prompted many political leaders to declare it the great exception to colonialism.

Jun 29, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stanley Aronowitz

Sartre’s Roads to Freedom Sartre’s Roads to Freedom

Asked where he was coming from, my friend's son replied, "From the demo against the death of Sartre." It was April 19, 1980, and the definition fitted perfectly, for Sartre's fun...

May 18, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer

Talking ‘Anarchy’ With Chomsky Talking ‘Anarchy’ With Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is a longtime political activist, writer and professor of linguistics at MIT.

Apr 5, 2000 / Books & the Arts / David Barsamian

Benjamin & the City of Light Benjamin & the City of Light

In September 1940, with a weak heart and even frailer nerves, Walter Benjamin carried on an old smugglers' path in the French Pyrenean foothills a big black briefcase stuffed wit...

Jan 13, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Andy Merrifield

A Dialectical Humanism A Dialectical Humanism

To my distress and perhaps to my delight, I order things in accordance with my passions.... I put in my pictures everything I like.

Nov 4, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Andy Merrifield

Have We Reason to Believe? Have We Reason to Believe?

Scratch a philosopher, find a reductionist revolutionary.

Aug 5, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Carlin Romano

Eat, Drink and Be Chary Eat, Drink and Be Chary

J.M. Coetzee's new novella, The Lives of Animals, must be some kind of first.

Jun 17, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Benjamin Kunkel

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