Élisabeth is certainly distinguished by extensive descriptions of ‘material facts’: settings, objects, gestures. When Claire ...
Most analysts had expected the Democratic Centre, built on the cult of personality surrounding former president Álvaro Uribe ...
In the ‘Freedom of Self-Consciousness’ chapter of The Phenomenology of Spirit, which follows the better-known parable about the master and the slave, Hegel considers two schools of ancient philosophy: ...
‘As your jet starts its descent, you are glued to your window. The scene below is astonishing: a 24-square-mile archipelago of coral-coloured islands in the shape of an almost-finished puzzle of the ...
Before I first went to university I had a belief, which I still have, and which is probably shared by the great majority of you.footnote * I mean the belief that the way to decide whether a given ...
Agarden gnome is no longer a garden gnome. This is the dilemma facing contemporary art, that is circumscribed by the unhappy concept of post-modernity.footnote * Up until a certain moment (let us take ...
Karl Korsch was born in 1886 in Todstedt near Hamburg. What was his family back-ground? The first 11 years in that small town on the Lüneburg Heath had a very strong influence on Karl. He could speak ...
The far right wants to decolonize. In France, far-right intellectuals routinely cast Europe as indigenous victim of an ‘immigrant colonization’ orchestrated by globalist elites. Renaud Camus, theorist ...
When the multi-hyphenate scholar of science Bruno Latour died last October at the age of 75, tributes poured in from all corners of academia and many beyond. In the aughts, Latour had been a ...
The new Marxist culture that emerged in the United States from about 2010 has many merits. It is particularly concerned with empirical reality and focused on tactical and strategic questions. It ...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is once again in the grip of a violent escalation. In November 2021, an organization known as M23 launched a rebellion in the DRC’s eastern borderlands – the fifth ...
Here is a conundrum. While stock exchanges across the world react nervously to the onslaught on Iran, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange is booming. Here is another: while millions of people in the region ...