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Saving unwanted children: a proposal for a National Rearing Institute
Unwanted children are carried, born, and reluctantly raised each year; they are prone to abortion, abandonment, neglect, and abuse. Meanwhile, many...
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For I Do Not Know How to Act: Tadeusz Kantor and the Reality of Theatre
This paper presents a discussion, in honour of the late Ari Hirvonen, of the reality of theatre, the space of the tragic and the ethical condition....
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Meta-metaphysics, constructivism, and psychology as queen of the sciences
Remhof contends that Nietzsche is a metaphysician. According to his Meta-Metaphysical Argument, Nietzsche’s texts satisfy the criteria for an...
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Noble Lies, Fantasies, and Fictions: Nietzsche, Marcuse, and Foucault and the Demand for Fictions
In the figures of Friedrich Nietzsche, Herbert Marcuse, and Michel Foucault, we see the deepening of the First Paradox. Nietzsche, perhaps more than...
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Introduction
In the introductory chapter, the author seeks to show how today the concept of totalitarianism cannot be analytically developed as it is commonly...
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Revisiting respect for persons: conceptual analysis and implications for clinical practice
In everyday conversations, professional codes, policy debates, and academic literature, the concept of respect is referred to frequently. Bioethical...
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Rethinking Vulnerability as a Radically Ethical Device: Ethical Vulnerability Analysis and the EU’s “Migration Crisis”
We reinvigorate vulnerability theory as a radically ethical device — ethical vulnerability analysis. We bring together fuller vulnerability analysis...
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On the distorted structure of Russian guilt
This commentary offers a concise description of the structure revealed in the discourse about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but that also serves as a...
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Mobile homes in the land of illness: the hospitality and hostility of language in doctor-patient relations
Illness has a way of disorientating us, as if we are cast adrift in a foreign land. Like strangers in a dessert we seek oasis to recollect ourselves,...
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Applying The Experimental Philosophy
Isaac Newton used experimental philosophy to extract his theory of light from geometrical discrepancies in the images of sunlight. He found that the...
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Fear and Violence as Organizational Strategies: The Possibility of a Derridean Lens to Analyze Extra-judicial Police Violence
Governments and majoritarian political formations often present police violence as nationalist media spectacles, which marginalize the rights of the...
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Questioning the boundary between “Us” and “Them” with Waldenfels and Derrida
Between what we call “us” and what we call “them”, a line must be drawn, which immediately becomes a contentious border, or a divide, that brings to...
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Decolonizing Aesthetics via Relating and (Dis-In)dividuating?
The current proposal to “decolonize” aesthetics and to relativize Western artistic and philosophical assumptions doesn’t just refer to the historical...
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Can the People (Min) Ever Grow Up? Comments on Shu-Shan Lee, “What Did the Emperor Ever Say?”
In this essay, I find much to admire and little to disagree with in Shu-Shan L ee ’s use of James Scott’s “public transcript” framework to excavate a...
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Morality: When Does it Come into Play?
What is morality about? This chapter explores morality by distinguishing between its formal object and its material object. Formally speaking...
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Migration as Reparation for Colonialism
It is commonly accepted that former European colonising states ought to make reparations for the many harmful legacies of colonialism. I defend an...
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Moral Obligation as a Conclusive Reason: On Bernard Williams’ Critique of the Morality System
Bernard Williams’ critique of the morality system , as illustrated in his reading of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon , is intended to show both that real moral...
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The Weight of Desire
The focal point of this chapter is the question of the entanglements between meaning and desire. The essay is guided by readings of Lacan’s theory of...
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The Ethics of Medical Research
The most basic question any medical researcher should ask oneself is: Why ought I engage in medical research? Like any ethical question, there are...