A Proletarian Critique of Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism, Take 2

In October 2022 we published in The Philosophical Salon a critique of Cedric Robinson’s landmark study, Black Marxism.[1] We took objection to Robinson’s claim that Marxism is a European ideology …
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The search for extraterrestrial intelligence simultaneously inscribes itself within the domains of science, art, and the paranormal. Yet, whether we are dealing with astrobiology, science fiction, or superstition, each of …
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As Slavoj Žižek often recalls, philosophy’s purpose is not to provide all the answers but to ask the right questions. If the question concerning warnings is one of them, it’s …
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“I know what you’re thinking, but it is NOT my mother!” This unprompted reflection by a patient led Freud to the perplexing insight not only that ‘mother’ occupied some unusually …
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 Professors, like other teachers, must accustom themselves to being misinterpreted. For example, in a philosophy of law class I once cited the famous adage, variously and often mistakenly attributed, that …
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