Aeon18m
For Mary Midgley, the Western philosophical tradition is shaped by the fact that its greatest practitioners were bachelors
For Mary Midgley, the Western philosophical tradition is shaped by the fact that its greatest practitioners were bachelors ...
Portland philosophy professor compiles 18 years of pop culture analysis
Based on a philosophy blog that he has been running for 18 years, USM philosophy professor Jason Read's new book "Unemployed ...
Aeon22d
What distinguishes fiction from nonfiction? The answer to this perennial question relies on how we understand reality itself
They targeted a book whose claim to truth practically interfered with their understandings of themselves and the country When I was a newcomer to philosophy and enamoured ... Note, for example, that ...
The Financial Times22d
WG Sebald’s Silent Catastrophes — literary essays on Austrian writers
If you don’t want to sound academic, don’t subtitle an essay ‘On the Dialectics of Eschatology in Stifter and Handke’ A sense of Heimat, or homeland, is also key — and indisputably ...
London Evening Standard22d
What the papers say – January 20
The Hamas hostage release has dominated headlines this Monday, with British-Israeli citizen Emily Damari one of the first released. The Daily Telegraph reports on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer ...