Category Archives: Philosophy

Sobre el amor

Posted on May 20, 2012 by admin

Alain Badiou acaba de publicar la versión inglesa de su libro sobre el amor, según nos reporta Stuart Jeffries en su columna del diario británico The Guardian. En esta obra, Badiou, a quien Jeffries califica como el “filósofo viviente más grande … Continue reading →

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Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

Posted on May 8, 2012 by admin

A few words on a recent controversy about the intersection of philosophy and faith that emerged from this apparently benign question. All of it comes from a very provocative book from Cosmologist Lawrence Kraus that generated some very interesting responses — for instance, … Continue reading →

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On Reading Schmitt II: Pluri-versality

Posted on May 3, 2012 by admin

Continuing on my reading of Schmitt‘s The Concept of the Political, I have a few comments. In section 6 Schmitt develops his notion of a pluri-versal world as opposed to a uni-versal one. Essentially, Schmitt refuses the idea of a global, uni-versal … Continue reading →

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Eagleton’s The Event of Literature

Posted on April 21, 2012 by admin

Terry Eagleton is promoting his latest book The Event of Literature, soon to be released by Yale University Press. In a recent interview — released by Yale Books and available online: part 1 and part 2 — he says that … Continue reading →

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In Time (2011)

Posted on March 5, 2012 by admin

Noah Berlatsky is totally right, In Time (2011) wants to be a critique of capitalism but instead it ends up being a “searing satire of America’s utter inability to critique capitalism.” However, what Berlatsky fails to recognize is that the film … Continue reading →

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