By: Joshua Glenn

Guerrilla street theater in Paris, c. 1830.

By: Joshua Glenn

Charming vs. Creepy is the battle of our age.

By: Brian Berger

Rhapsodic, recondite philosopher of music, hope, and Stalin.

By: Matthew Battles

Her advocacy of the voiceless is spirited and quixotic.

By: Ingrid Schorr

To think, to heal, and to write.

By: Mark Kingwell

His slogan could be: To the appearances themselves!

By: Mark Kingwell

Embod­ied conscious­ness and being-in-the-world…

By: Mark Kingwell

His was a hermeneutic approach to phenomen­ology.

By: Tim Carmody

He defamiliarized science rather than taming it.

By: Mark Kingwell

By: Mark Kingwell

GUY DEBORD (1931-94) was a founder and key intellectual figure in the Situationist International, an avant-garde Marxist collective influential in postwar France, especially during the 1968 uprising in Paris. Debord’s book The Society of the […]

By: Mark Kingwell

He invented cultural criticism.

By: Joshua Glenn

In a 1945 essay, the French-Jewish author, philosopher, and journalist ALBERT CAMUS (1913-60) asked, “What is a man who revolts?” His answer: “First of all, it’s a man who says no. But if he refuses, […]

By: Mark Kingwell

Like Camus and Derrida, LOUIS ALTHUSSER (1918-90) came from Algeria. Unlike them, he murdered his wife — taking his philosophy of anti-humanism a little too far, as the clunky grad-seminar joke has it. (In court […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Even though there’s no shepherd issuing orders, we behave like docile sheep.