Debates

Philosophers do not often write about their fathers. Perhaps this is because the fathers of philosophers are not typically attuned to philosophy. Philosophy is nothing if it is not critical, …
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‘The West has become a totalitarian space – the space of a self-defensive hegemony defending itself against its own weakness.’ (Jean Baudrillard)

One of the most frequently referenced scenes in …
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Solidarity and Disagreements in Feminism in the Wake of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine 

When Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February 2022, feminists from different parts of the …
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In the first pages of The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois famously meditates on the question, “How does it feel to be a problem?”[i] This is …
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Question: how can a nineteenth-century German philosopher — namely Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel — shed light on the actions of the Israel Defense Force (IDF) toward Palestinian people in 2024? …
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A reader soon realizes that any attempt to capture the irreducible singularity of Kafka, either the man or the writer, necessarily ends in failure. Even after a hundred years of …
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The subject that I have chosen for myself is thinking about freedom in wartime Ukraine. The basis for this title is a conference that I ran together with some friends …
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When we are born, we open our eyes to the unknown. Our senses barely manage to weave together the whispers of consciousness, which will take several years to build up …
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As unified Germany celebrated the triumph of liberalism in the 1990s, there was an ideological Stimmung that it could embrace the end of history, and thus the end of all …
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Not only is appearance inherent to reality – what we get beyond reality is a weird split in appearance itself, an unheard-of mode designating “the way things really appear to …
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