The Turin Horse, Nietzsche, and Madness
Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse is a meticulous and desolate exploration of life in its most raw and essential state. Through the lens of this sad and philosophical film, we can consider…
What inner speech is, and why philosophy is waking up to it
Daniel Gregory, Universitat de Barcelona It is quite rare for philosophers to start investigating a new area, and a lot of the questions they explore have been around since ancient times. However,…
Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil and Ayn Rand all felt ‘different’ in the world – and changed the way we think
The Visionaries traces the gradual unfolding of their systems of thought, including how they changed their minds in response to the radically changed situations they found themselves in…
The politics of the castaway story
The castaway story has helped promulgate a view about human nature as eternal and unchanging. By taking human beings out of society, our supposedly fundamentally individualist survival instincts come to the fore.…
Oscars 2023: The philosophy of Everything Everywhere All at Once explained
Beyond its witty, ludicrous humour, the film successfully transmits profound philosophical contemplation, enlightening a global audience through the ancient Chinese thought of Daoism, that has so much to offer to the contemporary…
3 reasons not to be a Stoic (but try Nietzsche instead)
Neil Durrant, Macquarie University For an ancient philosophy, Stoicism is doing extremely well in 2023. Quotes from the Stoic philosopher and Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius litter my Instagram feed; you can find…
Longtermism – why the million-year philosophy can’t be ignored
In 2017, the Scottish philosopher William MacAskill coined the name “longtermism” to describe the idea “that positively affecting the long-run future is a key moral priority of our time”…
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,…
Lost at sea
Review of Enzo Traverso, Revolution: An Intellectual History…