Four Reasons to Read Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou (born 1937) is one of the most influential French philosophers of our time…
What Is an Arche-Fossil? A History of Forgetfulness
An arche-fossil thus designates the material support on the basis of which the experiments that yield estimates of ancestral phenomena proceed…
After the Promise: Ontological Fracture and Common Action in the Present
Critical diagnosis of 2025 as a year of profound change and a reflection on common action…
How the French Philosopher Jean Baudrillard Predicted Today’s AI 30 Years Before ChatGPT
Some writers appear so accurate in their assessment of where society and technology is taking us that they have attracted the label “prophet”…
How Lacan Discovered the Subject of Capitalism
Lacan based his theory of the subject on Hegel’s master-slave dynamic…
Building a Stable ‘Abode of Thought’: Kant’s Rules for Virtuous Thinking
What makes a life virtuous? The answer might seem simple: virtuous actions – actions that align with morality…
The Elusive Social Dimension: Reading Michael Lazarus’s Absolute Ethical Life
The search for, and restoration of, sociality as the essence of humanity is thus an act of redemption of the highest order…
Plato: Philosophy, Ethics, and Politics in Dialogue with Truth
Plato's philosophy is among the most influential in Western thought, owing to its enduring impact on ontology, epistemology, ethics, and politics…
Principle of Insufficient Reason
Nothing happens without a reason. This is Leibniz's principle of sufficient reason (PSR)…
Quentin Meillassoux: Facticity and Scientific Methods
Quentin Meillassoux is an awakener for his contemporaries…