Debates

Question: how can a nineteenth-century German philosopher — namely Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel — shed light on the actions of the Israel Defense Force (IDF) toward Palestinian people in 2024? …
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A reader soon realizes that any attempt to capture the irreducible singularity of Kafka, either the man or the writer, necessarily ends in failure. Even after a hundred years of …
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The subject that I have chosen for myself is thinking about freedom in wartime Ukraine. The basis for this title is a conference that I ran together with some friends …
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When we are born, we open our eyes to the unknown. Our senses barely manage to weave together the whispers of consciousness, which will take several years to build up …
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As unified Germany celebrated the triumph of liberalism in the 1990s, there was an ideological Stimmung that it could embrace the end of history, and thus the end of all …
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Not only is appearance inherent to reality – what we get beyond reality is a weird split in appearance itself, an unheard-of mode designating “the way things really appear to …
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The unspeakable savagery of the unfolding genocide in Gaza and the absolute impunity of the Israeli genocidists and their Western sponsors have sent shock waves around the world and sparked …
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The Games of the XXXIII Olympiad have come to a bittersweet end. The past two weeks brimmed with athletic excellence, passion, and two ceremonies that were gloriously French. The clock …
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It is tempting to read Kant through Hegel even when it comes to the triad of texts, written in Latin, which Kant submitted in the span of a single year …
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Post-industrial and ultra-technological societies have rigorously separated the stories of human values and those of the earth’s nature and climate. Human civilizations have been fully dependent on the wilderness of …
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