Philosophy

The human species is very young, but in a short time it has acquired some striking, if biologically superficial, variations across the planet. As t...

Early in life, Walter Rodney became a major revolutionary figure in a dizzying range of locales that traversed the breadth of the Black diaspora: i...

Back in print after fifty years and with a new introduction by Ray Brassier, this often overlooked but prescient collection of Marcuse's lectures m...

What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people? Can we...

In the late 1960s the world was faced with impending disaster: the height of the Cold War, the end of oil, and the decline of great cities througho...

How philosophy transformed human knowledge and the world we live inPhilosophical investigation is the root of all human knowledge. Developing new c...

The Poverty of Ethics stands the usual moral-political dichotomy on its head. It argues that moral principles do not in fact underlie or inform pol...

We are so used to living in a media-saturated world that we do not notice just how much damage is being done to us daily by the images we see and t...

One of the most unexpectedly useful things we can do when were feeling glum or out of sorts is to look at pictures. The best works of art can lift ...

A timely and provocative essay about the parallel lives of Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt and their mission for a more humane society  [A] short ...

How can we think more deeply about travel? This was the thought that inspired Emily Thomas to journey into the philosophy of travel, to explore th...

Ancient and enduring, rich and wide-ranging, the tradition of Confucianism offers profound insights into how we can lead good lives--lives built on...

Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the major philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Best known for After Virtue, first publis...