David Hume: in our time
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Tag: rationality
ISIS and the instrumental rationality of its Apocalypse
by Sanjay Perera
This Ragnarök finale that ISIS is hung up on is in effect exemplary in its utilitarian approach of the ends justifies the means thinking that underlies the rationality of its Apocalypse. Continue reading ISIS and the instrumental rationality of its Apocalypse
God as justice, not dogma
by Angelo J. Letizia This essay tries to illustrate how the question of God’s existence can be approached quasi-scientifically or quasi-empirically. This however is not a dogmatic conception of God, rooted in ritual and passivity. Rather, this essay argues for … Continue reading God as justice, not dogma
Anti-public intellectuals and the tyranny of manufactured forgetting
by Henry A. Giroux For in the world in which we live it is no longer merely a question of the decay of collective memory and declining consciousness of the past, but of the aggressive [assault on] whatever memory remains, … Continue reading Anti-public intellectuals and the tyranny of manufactured forgetting
The economic unconscious
by Sanjay Perera Woman, eternally, /shows us the way. — Faust, Goethe Supposing truth is a woman — what then? — Beyond good and evil, Nietzsche A. Introduction It may still seem novel to some that what they have been … Continue reading The economic unconscious
A theory of economic violence
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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