On Philosophical Failures.
We focused on Schopenhauer and Peirce: but we might just as easily have written about Diogenes, Socrates, Spinoza, Kierkegaard, Thoreau, Marx, Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin, or Simone Weil.
Z
Robert Hanna's pseudonym (also Mr. Nemo & Hugh Reginald) "Z" is also the name of a very famous 1969 political flick directed by Costa-Gavras-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(1969_film)
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Performance Philosophy, Public Philosophy, and Borderless Philosophy.
Two extremely interesting movements in contemporary philosophy have emerged simultaneously, but also almost entirely independently of one another: performance philosophy and public philosophy.
Canon Wars, Round 2: The Multi-Culti Critique of Western Philosophy.
It’s worth noting from the outset, that the Aeon URL for the article labels it under the more accurate (and presumably Van Norden’s original?) title, “Why the Western Philosophical Canon is Xenophobic and Racist.”
Multi-Culti Is Anti-Kanti.
E.T. is an alien of indeterminate gender who is personally biased against women, non-white races, non-Europeans, and blind people.
“Poetry is the Hero of Philosophy”: Novalis’s Metaphilosophy.
Novalis is perhaps best known to contemporary philosophers for his aphorism, “Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality.”
Is Professional Philosophy a Bullshit Job? Yes. And What You Can Do About It.
As a professional academic philosopher, even though you began by loving real philosophy for its own sake, you’ve unintentionally turned your working life into the very opposite of what you hoped it would be.