Open Court’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Philosophy Emphasizes Caution and Awareness
As far as The Handmaid's Tale and Philosophy is concerned, Trump et al are the exact bastards you're not supposed to let grind you down.
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Is There Hope for Knowledge? On Robert Pasnau’s ‘After Certainty’
In After Certainty, philosopher Robert Pasnau constructs a history of knowledge and concludes that most theories of knowledge aren’t up to par.
A Deeper Disney Discourse on Song
We look at Disney songs through the lens of hardcore hermeneutics. Be warned, you may never be able to hear these songs the way you did before!
‘Aquinas and the Market’ and the Possibility of a “Truly Humane Economic System”
With Aquinas and the Market, economist and theologian Mary L. Hirschfeld begins a necessary conversation between economic and theological sectors, in the academy and, one hopes, outside the ivory towers and seminaries, to calculate our ultimate worth.
Saving Acid Communism: The Essential Leftist Critic Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher’s posthumous k-punk showcases the depth of his critiques, insight he brought to the humanities, and a glimpse into where he was going with the unfinished work, Acid Communism.
Chronicling the Non-Event: Anton Chekhov and the Short Story
Chekhov is engaging with an underlying, rumbling, non-event that pervades life and yet is nearly always blithely ignored. His stories move us in their ability to excavate this subterranean, haunting static that informs all experience.
The Dialectic of the Freak: On John Waters’ ‘Female Trouble’
In John Waters' work, poor taste is a manner of refinement that attains a strange air of considered sophistication and knowing advertency.
‘The Anguish of Thought’: A Logical Line of Analysis for a Study of Madness
Regarding Evelyne Grossman’s The Anguish of Thought, Ph.D. candidates across America should lay down their pencils before they embarrass themselves.
Action at a Distance: The Father in Víktor Erice’s El Sur
The Father is the wielder of profuse potency but it can only be maintained through distance and the renunciation of understanding, the willingness to embrace the mystery without examining it. But, necessarily, the child must penetrate that veil.
The End of Endings; or, Why Won’t Anyone Stay Dead?
What does it mean when our stories and our characters, unlike our lives, refuse to come to an end?
An Appeal for Balance: ‘Action Versus Contemplation’
Billions grapple with a frenetic paradigm shift which scuffs lines between a carefree ant's and a diligent grasshopper's domains.