From Habitus to Doctrine: Another History of the Modern Human Subject (1)

Michel Foucault’s The Order of Things (a title he preferred to the original Les Mots et les Choses) was the book that made his name. It has never been without …
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On the verge of the fortieth anniversary of Chernobyl, the worst nuclear disaster in human history, the vibe emanating from the newsreel remains the same as before. Everywhere, the intent …
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Though Nietzsche infamously declared that God is dead and accused us of being culpable for his death, it is a curious feature of humanity that we ceaselessly strive to seek …
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Few novels capture the disorientation and contradictions of the first quarter of the twentieth century as fully as Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain. Published in 1924 – though written between …
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