Philosophy

More than ten years after the worst crisis since the Great Depression, the financial sector is thriving. But something is deeply wrong. Taxpayers b...

More than ten years after the worst crisis since the Great Depression, the financial sector is thriving. But something is deeply wrong. Taxpayers b...

From the pencil to the puppet to the drone--the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the ...

2016 witnessed an unprecedented shock to political elites in both Europe and America. Populism was on the march, fueled by a substantial ignorance ...

From the earliest times, societies have been seduced by the temptation of unitary thinking. Recognizing the vulnerability of existence, people and ...

In On Marx, Alan Ryan examines Marxs writing, not within the framework of Lenin or Tolstoy but within its own time, tracing its Hegelian roots and ...

Since 2010, The Stonethe immensely popular, award-winning philosophy column in The New York Timeshas revived and re-interpreted age-old inquiries t...

Once solely the province of ivory tower professors and university classrooms, contemporary philosophy was emancipated from its academic closet in 2...

In On Marx, Alan Ryan examines Marxs writing, not within the framework of Lenin or Tolstoy but within its own time, tracing its Hegelian roots and ...

A provocative new account of how morality evolvedWhat is morality? Where does it come from? And why do most of us heed its call most of the time? I...

Mark C. Taylor's latest book is a philosophy of silence for our nervous, chattering age. How do we find silence--and more importantly, how do we un...

An exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressionsCuteness has taken...

An investigation into the foundations of democratic societies and the ongoing struggle over the power of concentrated wealth Much of our politics t...

This book is an extension of the interactive installation Phenotypes/Limited Forms. The installation encourages visitors to pick their favorite sub...

Germaine Kiecke was a foundling, an orphan. Now she is a successful art academic who defines herself by her profession and prefers to experience th...

In the tradition of Roland Barthes' Mythologies and Walter Benjamin's aphoristic Theses on the Philosophy of History, Ed Simon's Furnace of this Wo...

Ernesto Laclau is best known for co-authoring Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, with Chantal Mouffe. Politically active in the social and student mo...