His work, like his life, is a test of moral sensibility.

The only real liberty is the liberty to determine one’s own ends.

Would it be a bad thing if the concrete legacy of English…

Philosophical Investigations addresses every central problem of thought.

His was a voice of unmatched irreverence and hatred of boredom.

His slogan could be: To the appearances themselves!

His Seagram Building made the largest aesthetic point in New York.

Embod­ied conscious­ness and being-in-the-world…

Silent film, German expressionism, and off-kilter Lynchian absurdism

His was a hermeneutic approach to phenomen­ology.

Influences: Scottish gothic, science fiction, and radical left-wing politics.

Ordi­nary objects shim­mer with trans­cend­ent energy in Bishop’s poetry.

When, towards the end of her life, VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941), pioneer of…

The Trinidadian Marxist and cricket expert C. L. R. JAMES (1901-89) pioneered…

GUY DEBORD (1931-94) was a founder and key intellectual figure in the…

American philosopher SIDNEY HOOK (1902-89) enacted the key dilemmas of twentieth-century politics….

ARTHUR ADOLPH “HARPO” MARX (1888-1964) was a philosopher of silence. Though it…

He invented cultural criticism.

Like Camus and Derrida, LOUIS ALTHUSSER (1918-90) came from Algeria. Unlike them,…