Back Talk: Alva Noë
Christine Smallwood
Philosopher Alva Noë talks about the brain, consciousness and animal rights.
Christine Smallwood
Philosopher Alva Noë talks about the brain, consciousness and animal rights.
Laura Hanna & Gavin Browning : Activism & Organizing
In our imperfect world, only the lucky few have access to wealth and cultural riches. There is a better way: it's called The Commons.
Christopher Hayes : Barack Obama
We get it. He's pragmatic. But what does that mean--politically and philosophically?
Linda Hirshman : Presidential Election 2008
Suddenly, Obama's making a pretty good case for why Americans should once again care for one another.
Following the quirky, revolutionary life path of one of the most celebrated twentieth-century intellectuals.
E.L. Doctorow : George W. Bush Administration
Just as Moby-Dick was too much for Ahab, our new century may be too difficult for us to comprehend.
Two authors posit very different views on the problem of religious conflict in a supposedly secular age.
Two writers explore the perversion of our collective imagination and the ways that science and myth shape our understanding of spirituality.
Jackson Lears : Public Figures & Intellectuals
A new biography of William James portrays a man who made a brilliant career of asking tough questions.
Philosopher Walter Benjamin married Marxism and theology in an attempt
to give hope to the hopeless.
Nikolai Bukharin's Philosophical Arabesques is more than a
cul-de-sac on the road from Marx to Stalin; the book defines a
political path still not taken.
Jackson Lears : Cultural Criticism & Analysis
In Songs of Experience, Martin Jay examines modern debates over the relationship between theory and the lived world.
Two new books explore the work of philosophers Emmanuel Levinas and Martin Heidegger.
Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism is a political classic trapped in the era in which it was written.
John Gray : Cultural Criticism & Analysis
Kwame Anthony Appiah's Cosmopolitanism explores the middle ground between the universal laws of liberalism and relativism's blind respect for all differences.
The late socialist economist Harry Magdoff read Marx at
fifteen and never looked back. A self-educated co-editor of the
Monthly Review, he not only fought for a just and humane world;
he embodied his politics in the way he conducted his life.
