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AS ACADEMIC PHILOSOPHY becomes ever more specialized, a number of philosophers have sought to bring philosophizing out of the ivory tower and into the street. Specialized cafes, book clubs, and “philosophy of everyday life” courses, like those in Alain...

by MurzBan Jal The Indian Brahman proves the holiness of the Vedas by reserving to himself alone the right to read them. —Karl Marx, The Leading Article in No. 179 of the Kölinische Zeitung Does the Hindu social order, recognize social equality? The...

originally published at Greek News Agenda Nancy Fraser is Henry and Louise A. Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research and one of the world’s leading thinkers in political and social theory. She has been Einstein...

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE The following is a guest post by David S. Oderberg on the life, work, and legacy of the late E. Jonathan Lowe (pictured at left), who died on January 5. E.J. Lowe (1950-2014) My first intellectual...

I happened to have been reading Frank van Dun’s novel In the Shadow of the Prodigy (2015) during the week of the United States Supreme Court’s latest trespass into the constitutional domain of law-making, formerly reserved to the legislative branch....