Philosophy Today

Fredric Jameson, observing in Late Marxism that Adorno adopts Marx's view about the abstract character of all historical forms of exchange, adds that the abstractions characteristic of exchange profoundly affect society because they extend "across the...

Recently, philosophers have taken to announcing a revival or a renaissance in the study of the philosophical work of Simone de Beauvoir.1 Sonia Kruks argues that feminist Beauvoir studies, having passed through an early ( 1970s) phase in which women...

Sensation breaks up every system ...Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and InfinityIt is both our panic and our privilege to be mortal and sense-full. We live on the leash of our senses. Although they enlarge us, they also limit and restrain us, but how beautifully.Diane...

(ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.)In contemporary society one can observe an apparent collapse of the opposition between technology on the one hand and nature on the other, an opposition which has been constitutive for the modern understanding...

We are all familiar with the distinction between the early and the later Wittgenstein, along with the many different interpretations of its significance.I have long been of the opinion that the crucial factor giving rise to the turnabout in Wittgenstein's...