By Kenneth Surin
Frederic Jameson in conversation at Fundacíon Juan March.
I have known Fred Jameson for 38 years, and was his colleague for 31 of those years. Many would say 90 is a ripe old age, but the loss of...
Ted Christopher
The unfolding problems with science’s materialist understanding of life are obviously noteworthy in and of themselves, but the associated potential support for dualistic/religious beliefs is particularly significant. Beyond a number of behavioral conundrums, the general problem facing the...
“I scroll, therefore I am” ~ James LadymanIn the age of virtual realities, social media and artificial intelligence, the resurgence of certain new forms of Cartesian scepticism profoundly challenges our understanding of reality and what it means to be...
Joachim Bromand
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s remarks on contradictions and paradoxes have been met with incomprehension and have fueled the widespread and long-standing prejudice that his later thoughts on the foundations of logic and mathematics are the “surprisingly insignificant product of a...
From Postmodernism to Metamodernism
Christina Aziz asks whether metanarratives still matter, and if so, how.
In reaction to the religion, tradition and romanticism of earlier eras, ‘modernism’ was the name given to the broad movement of ideas, art and architecture that...
By Rainer Forst
On June 18, Jürgen Habermas, who has had a lasting impact on the humanities and social sciences at Goethe University, turns 95, and our academic community, of which he is still an active member, sends its warmest...
by Robert Hunziker
Image by Matthias Heyde.
I recently attended a family affair in Upstate NY and was informed that climate change articles, like this one, are too negative, causing close relatives to shutdown and going so far as to ignore...
by Monika Zgustova
Still from Orson Welles’ The Trial (1962).
In the late 1980s, still during the communist era, while visiting Prague, a friend gave me Franz Kafka’s ‘The Castle’ in Czech. It was an edition from the 1960s, the decade...
Cathlyne Joy Alvarez-Abarejo
Truth is vaguely conceived in the method of the Philosophy for Children (P4C) program’s Community of Inquiry (COI or CPI) either as “discovered,” implied as objective and universal, or even “generated” or something subjectively and relatively...
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Alain Touraine, a highly revered French sociologist who died on June 9, was widely recognized for his profound insights and scholarly contributions in the realm of Social Sciences. Touraine's intellectual acumen transcended geographical boundaries, leaving...
