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Hegel is considered the hardest philosopher, but his views aren’t actually that outlandish

The final irony here is that Hegel’s views are actually much less bizarre and outlandish than many other philosophers with less challenging reputations, such as Leibniz with his monads, Kant with his…

The myth of Aufheben

the Hegelian Aufhebung works not to a logic of mastery, not to a logic that overcomes what it negates, but to a logic of life and death that lives and dies, negates and preserves,…

The Raft of the Medusa (1818-1819), by Théodore Géricault (1791–1824). Wikimedia Commons

Lost at sea

Review of Enzo Traverso, Revolution: An Intellectual History…

Lula beats Bolsonaro in Brazil’s runoff election

With 50.84% of the votes, the former president and leader of the Workers' Party became the president of the South American giant in an election marked by polarization, fake news, and electoral…

The great convergence – Does increasing standardisation of journal articles limit intellectual creativity?

Drawing on a recent survey of forty years of research papers in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and interviews, the authors observe an increasing homogenisation of published work. Weighing…

Bertrand Russell – The Value of Philosophy

Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for…

Has Vladimir Putin been outflanked by the Russian far right?

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the Kremlin has sought to minimise the reality of war, however on the far right, many feel that Russia is holding back too much and are increasingly calling…

Ales Bialiatski, Center for Civil Liberties and Memorial receive the Nobel Peace Prize – 2022

The winners represent civil society in their home countries. For many years, they have promoted the right to criticize power and to protect the fundamental rights of citizens…

NASA’s Artemis 1 mission to the Moon sets the stage for routine space exploration beyond Earth’s orbit

NASA’s Artemis 1 mission is poised to take a key step toward returning humans to the Moon after a half-century hiatus. The mission, scheduled to launch on Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, is…