Hannah Arendt
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Zij en Wij – Het Omarmen van de Paradox
Wat heeft hedendaagse filosofie te bieden in deze tijd waarin populisme van allerlei kanten op de loert ligt? In dit artikel ga ik in op werk van Boris Groys, Emmanuel Levinas en Bracha Ettinger om twee benaderingen van de Ander te analyseren.
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Best Films 2013
It’s that time of the year to make lists, review what you’ve done, what you will do, etc etc. Here my 2013* top-10 films… [no spoilers]… 1 Die Wand (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1745686/?ref_=nv_sr_1) Austrian/German, 2012. It’s hard to say why this film came to be number 1 for me this year. This had to do with the way…
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Problems of Existentialism Post-WWII
There was a time I was absolutely convinced: existentialism is the answer. Nowadays I’m not so sure anymore. Not because it is not an answer to many problems, because it is. But I happen to wonder whether it is a sufficient answer. Existentialism post-WWII, is it doomed to fail? Existentialism became popular after the Second World…
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Academic life…
“…the customary academic suspicion of anything that is not guaranteed to be mediocre…” ~ Hannah Arendt