How personal judgment—essential to a diverse democratic public sphere—gets subsumed by our clichéd attempts to join the crowd
An Austrian-born American abstract artist arrives at 87 annī and amazes anew
Is the philosopher’s complexity enough to excuse his overt anti-Semitism? A dive into the so-called ‘black notebooks’ from the 1930s is revealing.
The virtuoso of queer theory’s rhetorically playful and nuanced prose on AIDS, Lana Turner, and the ‘imminence of nothingness’
The woman with the sharpest insight into the philosopher’s love for Heidegger had a parallel history
A new book on ‘antiphilosophy’ revives interest in Lev Shestov, a seminal but largely forgotten thinker
Your Sunday reading, Monday
Forthcoming ‘Book Review’ has items of interest
An unlikely musical tribute
Long after Hannah Arendt stopped being his “saucy wood nymph,” Martin Heidegger had absolute control of their heady correspondence.
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