For our purpose of understanding postmodernism, Richard Rorty’s views are important because he is the leading American postmodernist.....
Richard Rortys "Objektivität oder Solidarität" ist eine Fallstudie über die Verwendung falscher Alternativen zu rhetorischen Zwecken. Der Aufsatz beginnt mit
My primary assignment in this post is to comment on Jacques Derrida’s lecture “Cogito and the History of Madness.” So, I will begin with...
For Derrida, structuralism is not a 20th century phenomenon but is rather only one instantiation of the history of western metaphysics. At
The following is a summary of Derrida’s thought as presented in Part I, Chapter 1, of his book Of Grammatology. This book is apparently the
Der Rezensionsessay von Will Thomas fängt viel von der Essenz dieses sehr schwierigen Derrida-Werks ein. Ich schätzte besonders seine Kommentare zur Dekon
I was quite impressed with David L. Potts’s review of Foucault, as I was impressed with the criticisms he raised against my own discussion..
The first impulse a reader is likely to have upon starting to read chapter 10 is to close the book in dismay and disgust. The sentences appe
In his outstanding review essay , Roger Donway makes several references to things’ identities being “artificial.” By this he seems to mean
Trotz der Schwierigkeiten, Foucaults Gesamtprogramm zu verstehen - zum Teil, weil es dem Objektivismus so fremd ist, und zum Teil
Dieser Kommentar ist Teil des 1999 von der Atlas Society veranstalteten Online-"CyberSeminars" mit dem Titel "The Continental Origins of Postmodernism".
Soweit ich weiß, ist Foucault einer der weithin anerkannten Begründer der Postmoderne. Er wurde von Hegel und Nietzsche beeinflusst, und er
Um die Aussagen von [Michel] Foucault in The History of Sexuality: Eine Einführung ("HSI", Vintage Books, 1990; Erstveröffentlichung
Postmodern: adj. Of or relating to art, architecture, or literature that reacts against earlier modernist principles, as by reintroducing...
Roger Donway, like Bryan did earlier, tries to read Heidegger’s argument charitably. Roger sees Heidegger’s argument as an attempt to demons
Objectivism holds that each person should be responsible for himself, and be free to live as he judges best. This doesn't preclude charity..
"Midas Mulligan", sagt die schattenhafte Gestalt, die den prominenten Bankier in Ayn Rands Atlas Shrugged anspricht.
My chief role on this script—as on scripts from previous projects—was to review the script before it was finalized and flag anything
When I was a (much!) younger philosophy student, I used to argue vehemently with people who accepted the then very fashionable doctrine of c
