‘Alien’, Aristotle, and the Ruthless Forces That Control Us
Imagine Aristotle sitting in a movie theater in 1979 with his tub of popcorn. If you think he would scoff at Alien‘s outlandish monster, think again.
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Annemarie Mol’s Eating in Theory Reads Like a Buffet
Mol’s steady drip of accessible anecdotes in ‘Eating in Theory’ offers a slow-motion explosion of the connection between food and philosophy.
‘I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche’ Parallels the Writing Style of Nietzsche Himself
This new Nietzsche biography really is dynamite: quality characterization meets deep digging, succeeding where legions have failed.
Opportunity in Crises: On Chantal Mouffe’s ‘For a Left Populism’
By adopting a populist strategy, the left could finally overcome neoliberalism, replacing it with a deeper, kinder and more radical form of democracy, Mouffe argues.