Category: Philosophy
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Žižek’s Living in the End Times
In Living in the End Times, Slavoj Žižek plunges us into the vertiginous space where the collapse of global capitalism converges with the apocalypse of our collective imagination. From the first pages, Žižek insists that there can be no more illusions: the “four riders of the apocalypse”—the ecological meltdown, the internal imbalances of the market…
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Friedrich Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (1883–1885)
Nietzsche · WorksNietzscheCollected WorksCritical Edition Edited byGiorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari Sixth DivisionVolume OneWalter de Gruyter & Co.Berlin 1968 Friedrich NietzscheThus Spoke ZarathustraA Book for All and None(1883–1885) Walter de Gruyter & Co.Berlin 1968Archive No. 3659681 © 1968 by Walter de Gruyter & Co., formerly G. J. Göschen’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung —J. Guttentag, Verlagsbuchhandlung — Georg Reimer…
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🎧 In the Wake of Thought Now Available in Audiobook Format
Link: YouTube We are proud to announce that In the Wake of Thought: The Dialectics of Scientific Knowledge is now slowly rolling out in audiobook format. Narrated in a precise yet engaging tone that mirrors the work’s philosophical depth, this new release brings the book’s complex meditations on science, reason, and dialectical method to life.…
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Audiobook Release: Hegel’s Works from the Gymnasium Years (1785–1788) With Footnotes
Link: YouTube Hegel’s Works from the Gymnasium Years (1785–1788), translated by Simon Gros and narrated by Leda Eliza, continues the presentation of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s earliest surviving writings, following directly after Hegel’s Diary (1785–1787). Written during his final years at the Stuttgart Gymnasium and early days at the Tübingen Seminary, these texts offer a…
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Audiobook Premiere: Hegel’s Diary (1785–1787) – Annotated and Read Aloud
Link: YouTube With Hegel’s Diary (1785–1787) now available in immersive audiobook form—complete with explanatory footnotes—you can experience the formative reflections of the young Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel anywhere, anytime.
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Hegel’s Studies & Four Sermons (1792-1794) With Explanatory Footnotes
Table of Contents Four Sermons (1792–1793)First SermonSecond SermonThird SermonFourth Sermon Studies (1792/93–1794)In What Respect Is Religion…But the Principle Material…Our Tradition…Already in the Architecture…Religion Is One of the Most Important Matters…Aside from Oral Instruction…It Cannot Be Denied…The Constitutions of States…How Little Objective Religion…Public Authority…On the Difference in the Scene of DeathOn Objective Religion…It Would Be a…
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Hegel’s Works from the Gymnasium Years (1785–1788) With Explanatory Footnotes
Contents: Works from the Gymnasium Years: An Essay from the Tübingen Seminary (1785–1788)Conversation Between Three PersonsSome Remarks on the Representation of MagnitudeOn the Religion of the Greeks and RomansOn Some Characteristic Differences Among the Ancient PoetsFrom a Speech Given at Graduation Upon Leaving from the GymnasiumOn Some Benefits We Gain from Reading the Classical Greek…
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The Pure Law Within: Foundations of Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals
Philosophy, in its ancient Greek articulation, was divided into three principal branches: physics, ethics, and logic. This tripartite schema is not arbitrary but corresponds intimately to the structure of human reason itself, and thus it remains a fitting and enduring classification. Little requires amendment in this scheme, save perhaps the addition of a unifying principle—one…
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Fragment of Aristotle’s On the Ethics to Nicomachus
Dionysius Lambinus To the Most Illustrious, Most Eminent Lord Francis Turonio, of the Holy Roman Church, Cardinal, Greetings. How splendidly you shine, O most illustrious and most highly adorned Cardinal, for you unite praise and virtue—each of which, taken alone, is immensely powerful—and are all the more so when both concur in one and the…
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The Oration of Demosthenes ‘On the Crown’
Demosthenes — On the Crown First, men of Athens, I pray to all the gods and goddesses that the goodwill I have always maintained toward the city and toward every one of you may, in this trial, be returned to me from you. Next—and this matters most for your own piety and reputation—may the gods…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Early Writings I
Table of Contents Diary (1785–1787) Works from the Gymnasium Years: An Essay from the Tübingen Seminary (1785–1788)Conversation Between Three PersonsSome Remarks on the Representation of MagnitudeOn the Religion of the Greeks and RomansOn Some Characteristic Differences Among the Ancient PoetsFrom a Speech Given at Graduation from the GymnasiumOn Some Benefits We Gain from Reading the…
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Žižek on Trump: The Rise of a Post-Normative Political Figure and the Crisis of Liberal Authority
Slavoj Žižek’s extended critique of Donald Trump, presented through a philosophical and psychoanalytic lens, transcends superficial political commentary and ventures into the structural and libidinal economies of contemporary liberalism. The argument Žižek builds does not merely rest upon the observation of Trump’s obscenity or populist tactics; rather, it positions Trump as the symptomatic revelation of…
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Kant and the Problem of Nothingness: A Latin American Study and Critique
Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla’s Kant and the Problem of Nothingness, recently translated into English by Addison Ellis, marks a pivotal recovery of a neglected yet profoundly original philosophical voice from Latin America. Originally published in 1965, Mayz Vallenilla’s text undertakes a systematic investigation of the concept of nothing (nada) within the architecture of Kant’s Critique of…
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Welt und Zeit—From Zizians to Zizekians, 22:39—5. March 2025
From the earliest rumblings of philosophical rumination on the nature of being, there has always dwelled a fascination with the exchanges between ruptures in social order and the structures of thought that attempt to subdue or master them. Yet in an era where so many convictions claim to grasp the meaning of world and time,…
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Welt und Zeit—With Us, Capitalism is Genocide, 21:44—5. March 2025
World and time, as an unfolding of existential and historical questioning, compels us to confront the fundamental structures of being-in-the-world. Yet the gravity of our historical moment demands that we focus our reflections upon capitalism as a manifestation of an ever-unfolding logic of annihilation. This annihilation, hidden beneath the veneer of progress and technological advancement,…
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Hegel and Schelling in Early Nineteenth-Century France | 2 Volumes
In these two volumes, drawn together under the common title Hegel and Schelling in Early Nineteenth-Century France, a rich panorama of philosophical exchange emerges, one that gently but decisively overturns many entrenched perspectives on the reception of German Idealism. From the outset, the books proclaim a sweeping project: they place before our eyes the overlooked…
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Welt und Zeit—Emerging Fields, 12:03—1. March 2025
Just as knowledge advances by questioning its own presuppositions, so too do emerging fields of study arise when reality presents phenomena that confound established categories. These nascent disciplines – often interdisciplinary and liminal in nature – reflect a transformation in the ontological landscape of the present age. They beckon philosophy to interrogate not only their…
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Welt und Zeit—Acumen & Evil, 04:48—1. March 2025
Acumen, that razor-edged acuity of mind, occupies a paradoxical space at the intersection of knowledge and morality. It denotes a keen, incisive intelligence—a capacity to discern subtleties and penetrate complexities—and yet this very sharpness can cut either way. We often celebrate acumen as a virtue of the intellect, but the ontological question arises: what is…
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Welt und Zeit—Tutankamon, The Son-King, 22:58—27. February 2025
Time and myth combine in a tense fabric of human reality, where ancient narratives echo through the ages to fracture eras and fuel conflicts. In the present day’s turbulent political events, one discerns the shadows of primordial mythological structures—old gods and founding heroes haunting modern battlefields. The life of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankamon (Tutankhamun) offers…
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Welt und Zeit—The Micropolitics of Borders, 18:07—27. February 2025
In the aftermath of our collective reflections, it becomes necessary to redirect our gaze toward an investigation of those subtle thresholds that so often remain invisible yet determine the structure of political existence. In this, the analysis delves into what Michel Foucault famously labeled the micropolitics of power, but here specifically applied to borders, their…
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Eraserhead, The David Lynch Files: Volume 1: The Full Story of One of the Strangest Films Ever Made.
A mesmerizing portrait of artistic perseverance and cinematic innovation, Eraserhead, The David Lynch Files: Volume 1 by Kenneth George Godwin unfolds as a strikingly thorough account of one of cinema’s most confounding and compelling debuts. Written at a time when the film was still a fresh wound in the collective imagination, it combines rigorous journalistic…
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Welt und Zeit—The End of a War, 21:00—24. February 2025
In the wake of my previous contemplations and explorations in In the Wake of Thought, where the stirring question of thought’s perpetual unfolding demanded ever deeper considerations of human agency and temporal unfolding, it becomes necessary now to gather the threads of ontology, history, and politics in a new tapestry titled Welt und Zeit (World…
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Welt und Zeit—Disgusting Sexuality, Sex & Disgust, 20:35—23. February 2025
The intersection of sexuality is struck with the immediate affective realm of disgust, and one is invariably drawn into an ever-expanding contemplation that touches upon the most fundamental nature of being. The trajectory of this reflection, framed within the broader horizon often invoked by the name of World & Time, finds itself confronted by contradictions,…
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Welt und Zeit—Of the Abyss & the Void, 20:27—22. February 2025
In the tremors of our contemporary world, where the horizon of certainty has fractured under the weight of unprecedented shifts, one confronts two primordial dimensions that shape every aspect of existence: the abyss and the void. The two, at once unsettling and generative, stand at the heart of the human project, calling into question the…
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Welt und Zeit—Censorship, 18:01—12. Februar 2025
Censorship is the strategic suppression of expression, a force that operates in the intercourse of power and knowledge, visibility and invisibility, silence and speech. It is at once an act of negation—the erasure of words, ideas, and images from the public sphere—and an act of production, shaping what can be thought, said, and ultimately, what…
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Welt und Zeit—Destiny, 10:47—12. Februar 2025
Destiny names the abiding sense that certain outcomes or paths in life are foreordained, bound up in a cosmic or existential ordering that transcends conscious decision. Thrust into popular imagination as well as philosophical discourse, destiny often merges with fate, suggesting a hidden design or necessity that governs the arc of events. Although they both…
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Welt und Zeit—Disaster, 18:19—11. Februar 2025
Disaster is a threshold concept that captures the rupture, the sudden and devastating break, that disrupts the continuity of collective life. It conjures visions of apocalypse, catastrophe, cataclysm, ruin, and end, all of which speak to the collapse of presumed orders and the shattering of expectations. While the word “disaster” can be applied to singular…
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Welt und Zeit—Illusion, 17:36—11. Februar 2025
Illusion occupies a paradoxical position at the heart of human experience, engaging solace and self-deception, hope and distortion, and binding the subject to both personal fantasy and broader cultural constructs. In its most elementary sense, illusion captivates through the promise of protection from the rigors of daily existence; yet, as analytic insight teaches, it can…
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Welt und Zeit—Ontology, 17:23—11. Februar 2025
Ontology is the relentless unveiling of what it means for anything—and everything—to be, the ceaseless attempt to articulate the fundamental structures undergirding existence and to recognize the shared horizon in which human beings encounter a world they simultaneously constitute and inhabit. Ontology is not merely a catalog of entities or a bare enumeration of concepts;…
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Not Even a God Can Save Us Now: Reading Machiavelli after Heidegger
In Not Even a God Can Save Us Now: Reading Machiavelli after Heidegger, Brian Harding makes an uncompromising examination of how Niccolò Machiavelli’s insight into violence, sacrifice, and political foundations resonates with, and even anticipates, the sometimes elusive and frequently provocative inquiries of twentieth- and twenty-first-century continental philosophy. Harding’s study combines historical awareness, hermeneutical sensitivity,…
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Heidegger’s Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse
Richard Wolin’s Heidegger’s Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse offers an intensely searching investigation of a painful paradox at the intersection of twentieth-century German philosophy, Jewish intellectual life, and the darkest political upheavals of modern Europe. The book revolves around the unsettling spectacle of Martin Heidegger, an unmatched philosophical presence whose…
Simon Gros 