By: Mark Kingwell

Walter Benjamin “allowed me to survive Heidegger.”

By: Franklin Bruno

One of his key ideas is “anomalous monism.”

By: William Nericcio

The Cuban writer who was the toast of 1960s-70s Paris.

By: Jacob Mikanowski

He spurned all avant-gardes but his own.

By: Mark Kingwell

Media, culture, and ideology are the battleground of the soul.

By: Joshua Glenn

Harry G. Frankfurt on bullshit

By: Jacob Mikanowski

The first to see laughter as a weapon of the oppressed.

By: Jacob Mikanowski

“An indescribable gamut of colors!” said the first cosmonaut.

By: David Smay

Heroically engaged with his own alienation.

By: Jerrold Freitag

How to act right and focus in the face of meaning­lessness.

By: Joshua Glenn

His ennui and spleen were visceral reactions to emergent neoliberalism.

By: Lucy Sante

He discovered photography’s affinity with the social uncanny.

By: Lucy Sante

The clochard who chronicled freedom from the straight world.

By: David Smay

He wrote a fuck-you note to the 19th century. It was a scan­dalous hit.

By: Mark Kingwell

“Yale Scholar Wrote for Pro-Nazi Newspaper”