Gray sky thinking: Augustine and institutional resilience
Nearly every apocalyptic text presents the same paradox. The end is never the end. […] Something is left over, and that world after the world, the post-apocalypse, is usually the […]
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Gray sky thinking: Plato and political decay
Since destruction (φθορά) awaits everything that has come to be, even a foundation of this kind will not survive for the whole of time. It will fall apart, and this […]
Lee Braver on Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Derrida
Derrida is an extremely rigorous thinker and an extremely thorough reader. He reads texts incredibly closely, more so than anyone else I’ve ever encountered, paying attention to everything on the […]
Why Should We Read Spinoza?
by Susan James Published on 8 Nov 2014 During the twentieth century, Spinoza was allotted a minor role in Anglophone histories of philosophy. Dwarfed by Descartes, Hobbes, Locke and Leibniz, […]
