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I am thrilled and proud to be a part of this edited volume. Here are some links to our call for papers for Levinas and Asian Thought: Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Continental Philosophy Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy… more ›
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In his eighth thesis on the philosophy of history, written during the spring of 1940, Walter Benjamin writes, One reason why Fascism has a chance is that in the name of progress its opponents treat it as a historical norm.… more ›
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Byzantium The unpurged images of day recede;The Emperor’s drunken soldiery are abed;Night resonance recedes, night walkers’ songAfter great cathedral gong;A starlit or a moonlit dome disdainsAll that man is,All mere complexities,The fury and the mire of human veins.Before me floats… more ›
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Throughout his later work, Heidegger carefully divests us human beings from our subjectivism, our techno-productionist views of the world, as well as our various forms of humanisms; that is, he allows no room for the privileging of the human being,… more ›
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At first glance, the abyss separating human beings from animals within Heidegger’s work seems to allow for the greater possibility that human beings can be seen as privileged subjects and that they remain in a dominant position within a hierarchy… more ›
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World comes to the fore within Heidegger’s exploration of the humanity of human beings. Significantly, the etymological origins of world tend more toward time and historicity (as in “the age or life of man”) than the currently standard conceptualization of… more ›
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What is the nature of language? What is the language of nature? Is it solely language that distinguishes human beings from animals, or is the difference between the two more substantial? Eschewing both Aristotelian empiricism which sought to define human… more ›
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Even More seems aware of these shifting borders as he attempts an analogous, albeit rhetorical, configuration throughout his text. First we have More as author, here to relate the tale of Utopia. Then we have More as character. This second… more ›
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At the exact opposite end of history from Eden, we have the notion of the New Jerusalem, a utopian space carved out somewhere between a new heaven and a new earth. Revolutionary ideologies spanning the political spectrum from anarchical libertarianism… more ›
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Cultural notions of perfection in social organization find their origins in Thomas More’s Utopia, a text that inscribes on our collective cultural consciousness the very concept of utopia itself. More’s text offers the reader a view into the possibility of… more ›