Contemporary Philosophers
Simon Critchley interview — Style in Theory
James Corby (University of Malta) interviews Simon Critchley (New School) by video link during the Style in Theory / Styling Theory conference in Malta in November 2009.
Occupy first. Demands come later: Slavoj Žižek, The Guardian
What to do after the occupations of Wall Street and beyond – the protests that started far away, reached the centre and are now, reinforced, rolling back around the world?… Read more
19th & 20th Century Philosophy
Albert Camus (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Albert Camus (1913–1960) was a journalist, editor and editorialist, playwright and director, novelist and author of short stories, political essayist and activist—and arguably, although he came to deny it, a… Read more
New Book: Lives on the Left: Interviews with New Left Review
Voices of Sartre, Lukács, Chomsky, Harvey and others in conversation with New Left Review. The extended critical interview is especially flexible as a form, by turns tenacious and glancing,… Read more
Philosophical Movements
Jonathan Rée – Dissing God | New Humanist
The Book of Genesis is a bedtime soporific, not a page-turner. God, says Jonathan Rée, is the death of narrative, and narrative the death of God…
Jonathan Judaken: Interview with Annie Cohen-Solal
Host Jonathan Judaken talks to renowned Satre scholar Annie Cohen-Solal, author of a number of books and essays on Satre, including the international best-selling biography, Jean-Paul Satre: A Life. Annie Cohen-Solal… Read more
CFP
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CFP: The Kristeva Circle
Please submit abstracts (500-750 words) on any topic related to the work of Julia Kristeva, to kristevacircle@gmail.com. We welcome submissions from across all disciplines. Abstracts should be suitable for… Read more
- Call for Papers/Abstracts: Virtue Ethics
- CFP : Varieties of Continental Thought and Religion
- CFP: The International Journal of Badiou Studies
Journal Articles
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Etudes Ricoeuriennes/ Ricoeur Studies: Vol 2, No 1 (2011)
Introduction Gonçalo Marcelo Affirmation originaire, attestation et reconnaissance: Le cheminement de l’anthropologie philosophique ricœurienne Jean-Luc Amalric Paul Ricoeur’s Surprising Take on Recognition Arto Laitinen Recognition and Exteriority: Towards a Recognition-Theoretic… Read more
- New Left Review: September-October 2011
- TELOS 156 (Fall 2011): Democracy and Nations
- Reconstruction 11.3 (2011): Gender and Popular Fiction
History of Philosophy
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Kant, Kantianism, and Idealism: The Origins of Continental Philosophy
Thomas Nenon (ed.), Kant, Kantianism, and Idealism: The Origins of Continental Philosophy, 343pp., vol. 1 of Alan D. Schrift (ed.), The History of Continental Philosophy (8 vols.), University of Chicago Press, 2010, 2700pp…. Read more
- Hawking contra Philosophy | Philosophy Now
- Immortality [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
- Spinoza, part 1: Philosophy as a way of life | Clare Carlisle
The Profession
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Levinas Teaching Question
Over on the Facebook page of this site, Charles Comer asks: Charles Comer: Does anyone teach Levinas in lower level ethics? If so, what reading do you use? Click here… Read more
- Drucilla Cornell: The 'Enabling Violation' of International Adoption
- The Stone: Occupy Wall Streets Political Disobedience
- PhilJobs (Jobs in Philosophy)
Fragments
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Intellectual Roots of Wall Street Protest Lie in Academe – Faculty – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Anarchism in action. The intellectual origins of Occupy Wall Street aren’t in Cambridge or Morningside Heights. They’re in Madagascar…
- Nobel prize for literature goes to Tomas Tranströmer
- Clive Thompson on How More Info Leads to Less Knowledge
- Waiting For Godot: The Video Game
Philosophy 2.0
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The Sophists (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
The Greek word sophist’s, formed from the noun sophia, ‘wisdom’ or ‘learning’, has the general sense ‘one who exercises wisdom or learning’. As sophia could designate specific types of expertise… Read more
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- New Entry: Social Norms (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
- Elevate Differencen (formerly known as Feminist Review)