Understanding Hegel
Understanding Hegel. It is a bit of an exaggeration to say that in the last 100 or so years there
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Philosophy
Call for Papers: 12th International Critical Theory Conference of Rome
CALL FOR PAPERS 12th INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL THEORY CONFERENCE OF ROME May 9-11, 2019 John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University
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Understand that Nazis were not Monsters
Philosopher Stanley Cavell is correct: we must understand that Nazis were not monsters. Ridiculous you say? Yes and no. We
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Baseball Breaks Your Heart
Baseball Breaks Your Heart Baseball is life and while baseball never dies, it hibernates every autumn, and leaves you alone.
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The Radiant Aeryn Sun, Farscape’s Pivotal Character
If the question is, “who is the central character in Farscape?” the answer is easy: John Crichton, an astronaut; he
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James Baldwin on Masks
James Baldwin on Masks “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live
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The Most Important Thing That I Learned from Kierkegaard
. July is graduation time at my university and our department honored our 63 BA, 11 MA, and 4 PhD
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Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Speech – what it means Freedom of speech means freedom to say whatever you want; it does not
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Recognition, Ideology, and Racial Oppression
My paper ‘Recognition, Ideology, and Racial Oppression‘ on Academia. In this paper, I set out three tasks: to define what
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Who Owns the Water?
Although water covers two-thirds of the planet’s surface, only 3% of all water is safe for human consumption. Access to
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Winning, Losing, Learning.
Winning, Losing, Learning. “You always learn a lot more when you lose than when you win.” This probably isn’t
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Martin Buber on Encountering Others
Martin Buber on Encountering Others “When we encounter another individual truly as a person, not as an object for use,
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