Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights in an Amsterdam bar, he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From this ...
Continue Reading →The 17th-century philosopher Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, known as Mullā Ṣadrā, attempted to reconcile the three major forms of knowledge in Islamic philosophical discourses: revelation (Qurʼān), ...
Continue Reading →A leading philosopher seeks to recover “common sense” as a meeting place to reconcile science and philosophy Stengers recovers the idea of “common sense” as ...
Continue Reading →Following A. N. Whitehead, this book takes up the principal challenge facing a natural philosopher who wishes to engage with Nature while rescuing both Life ...
Continue Reading →In The Promise of Politics, Hannah Arendt examines the conflict between philosophy and politics. In particular, she shows how the tradition of Western political thought, ...
Continue Reading →How is hope to be found amid the ethical and political dilemmas of modern life? Writer and philosopher Mary Zournazi brought her questions to some ...
Continue Reading →Computation is revolutionizing our world, even the inner world of the “pure” mathematician. Mathematical methods – especially the notion of proof – that have their ...
Continue Reading →Algorithms are probably the most sophisticated tools that people have had at their disposal since the beginnings of human history. They have transformed science, industry, ...
Continue Reading →Radical Passivity examines the notion of passivity in the work of Levinas, Blanchot, and Agamben, three thinkers of exceptional intellectual privacy whose writings have decidedly ...
Continue Reading →In the first two volumes of Technics and Time, Bernard Stiegler worked carefully through Heidegger’s and Husserl’s relationship to technics and technology. Here, in volume ...
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