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Caput Mortuum: Truth, Freedom, and Negation in Fichte’s Institutiones Omnis Philosophiae
Rejecting the tendency to regard Fichte as merely a transitional figure in the development of German idealism, the following paper argues that, in the years following his dismissal from Jena, Fichte will come ...
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Response to Nietzsche’s Constructivism
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What’s the Deal? Trump, Fichte’s Closed Commercial State, and the Perverse Dialectic of Neoliberal Risk
The following paper seeks to understand Donald Trump as a “dialectical image” for the contradictions of neoliberal capitalism. Trump’s management style, as described in his Art of the Deal, combines a fetishizing...
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Unspeakable Trash: Heidegger, Philip K. Dick, and the Philosophy of Horror
Apophatic thought has, from the beginning, involved an esoteric tendency: a prohibition on communication enforcing the boundary between sacred and profane. This chapter argues, however, that there is also an e...
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The practical absolute: Fichte’s hidden poetics
The following paper argues that J.G. Fichte, despite his apparent philosophical neglect of art and aesthetics, does develop a strong, original, and coherent account of art, which not only allows the theorizati...