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Nietzsche: beyond good and evil

May 10, 2016August 24, 2021 sanjay perera

Nietzsche: Beyond good and evil (a documentary) Continue reading Nietzsche: beyond good and evil

Derrida: a documentary

May 3, 2016November 4, 2025 sanjay perera

Derrida: a documantary Continue reading Derrida: a documentary

Why is the Wealth of Nations so important? Adam Smith and classical economics

February 16, 2016 sanjay perera

Why is the Wealth of nations so important? Adam Smith and classical economics (2010) Continue reading Why is the Wealth of Nations so important? Adam Smith and classical economics

Taking notes 52: Philosophy and understanding Paris and the on-going crisis: 10 theses

November 19, 2015November 20, 2015 sanjay perera

by Jeff Noonan
At the basis of all concrete identities: “Muslim,” “Sunni,” “French citizen,” etc., lies a core human being, a capacity for self-making within the objective contexts of natural and social life. Continue reading Taking notes 52: Philosophy and understanding Paris and the on-going crisis: 10 theses

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Revolutionary philosophy and philosophers: a plea and a program

February 3, 2015 sanjay perera

by Mark Manolopoulos Could we, today, imagine Nietzsche submitting a journal paper or a manuscript? Could we imagine his work being accepted? Of course not. Why not? What does the impossibility of imagining such a scenario say about the contemporary … Continue reading Revolutionary philosophy and philosophers: a plea and a program

Making moral philosophy relevant again: the rent across the ‘veil of ignorance’

August 5, 2014June 13, 2021 sanjay perera

by Sanjay Perera Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple … Continue reading Making moral philosophy relevant again: the rent across the ‘veil of ignorance’

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A theory of economic violence

November 26, 2013February 4, 2024 sanjay perera

by Sanjay Perera ‘They’re waiting patiently, like the long-suffering lot they are, in the firm conviction that someone has conned them. They are waiting, belly to the ground, like cats at pig-killing time, hoping for scraps. They are like servants … Continue reading A theory of economic violence

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