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| | One way to scry the future of philosophy is to look at its past. However, the history of philosophy - both as a field of academic study and in more popular literature - tends to tell a rather narrow and parochial story. This story predominantly focuses on Europe to the exclusion of almost everywhere else....
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| | It's common to hear "postmodernism" used as a snarl word against an ill-defined lump of ideas and attitudes hostile to the idea of objective truth and standards. I sympathize with this but also recognize that this is an inadequate conception of postmodernism. In this article I talk about what it is, what it's often used...
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| | Throughout his intellectual career, the French philosopher Michel Foucault pursued two goals: a critique of the Enlightenment, and a 'return' to the Greeks. These two projects, or rather two faces of his life's work of which the thought of Immanuel Kant seemed to him to be the clearest expression, were understood by Foucault's sharpest observers on the left, such as Jurgen Habermas, as a new form of conservatism, following in the wake of Nietzsche and Heidegger, Foucault's chief philosophical inspirations.
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| A number of people have asked me to weigh in on this story in Quanta Magazine (based on this paper [ PDF version ] and also reported in t...