100 years of European Philosophy Since the Great War
Crisis and Reconfigurations
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Not Beyond Politics: The Metapolitical Dimensions of Nietzsche’s Anti-Democratism in Beyond Good and Evil
Our ability today to read Friedrich Nietzsche’s extraordinary body of work is affected by the remarkable weight of commentary that it has already produced, and the passionate untimely identifications the Germa...
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Open AccessWittgenstein’s Unglauben: Jacques Lacan and the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Jacques Lacan devoted one of the sessions of his important Seminar XVII, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s classic work Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Despite Lacan’s and Wittgenstein’s ...
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Between too Intellectualist and not Intellectualist Enough: Hadot’s Spiritual Exercises and Annas’ Virtues as Skills
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Pierre Hadot, Albert Camus and the orphic view of nature
Albert Camus repeatedly denied the label “existentialist,” and pointed to his formative experiences of natural beauty and his early introduction to classical Greek thought and culture as determinative of his p...
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Killing the father, Parmenides: On Lacan’s anti-philosophy
This paper examines the historical claims about philosophy, dating back to Parmenides, that we argue underlie Jacques Lacan’s polemical provocations in the mid-1970s that his position was an “anti-philosophie”. F...
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1750, Casualty of 1914: Lest We Forget (The PreKantian Enlightenment)
“1750”, the French enlightenment, was a retrospective casualty of the catastrophes set in chain by 1914. German Kulturpessimismus, heightened by the war and enflamed by the abuse of liberal ideals at the Treaty t...
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Introduction: European Thought, After the Deluge
The Great War, as it was known until 1939, set in chain a series of catastrophes and crises that have largely defined the long twentieth century: economic, political, cultural, and metaphysical. Philosophy was...
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Socratic Ironies: Reading Hadot, Reading Kierkegaard
This paper examines the seemingly unlikely rapport between the ‘Christian existentialist’, radically Protestant thinker, Søren Kierkegaard and French classicist and historian of philosophy, Pierre Hadot, famous f...
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Philosophy, Violence, Metaphor
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There Is Not Just a War: Recalling the Therapeutic Metaphor in Western Metaphilosophy
This paper offers a critical response to the claims of Sivin and Lloyd (2002) and Mattice (2014) to the effect that Greek and Roman philosophy was characterised by a predominance of combat metaphors. Drawing on P...
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Introduction: Secularization and Its Discontents
Sigmund Freud’s 1927 work The Future of Illusion expresses the great psychoanalyst’s most whiggish assessment of the situation of Western, post-enlightenment societies. In it, Freud reanimates the ancient traditi...
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‘In the Beginning Was … the Story’? On Secularization, Narrative, and Nominalisms
In Charles Taylor, the radical orthodoxy theologians, and Michael Gillespie, the genre of the large-scale renarration of Western modernity has been recently reanimated as a means to challenge the modern secular a...
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When the logics of the world collapse – Žižek with and against Arendt on ‘totalitarianism’
Despite Žižek's polemical attacks on Hannah Arendt, their writings on totalitarianism share significant similarities. Žižek's Lacanian analysis of the distortion of the elementary symbolic coordinates of human...
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The philosopher’s courtly love? Leo strauss, eros, and the law
This essay poses a critical response to Strauss’ political philosophy that takes as its primary object Strauss’ philosophy of Law. It does this by drawing on recent theoretical work in psychoanalytic theory, c...
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A Few Good Men: Psychoanalysis, Abu Ghraib and (the) American Right
This essay proffers a psychoanalytic reading of the events of Abu Ghraib as deeply symptomatic of changes in American foreign policy and political culture. The paper examines the Lacanian understanding of grou...
