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: Mark Kingwell

“Yale Scholar Wrote for Pro-Nazi Newspaper”

By: Mark Kingwell

He urged an endless, playful agonistics of intellectual engagement.

By: Mark Kingwell

He analyzed the motives of every act, including the act of analysis.

By: Brian Berger

He wrote “The Philosophy of Breaking Through”

By: Mark Kingwell

Theorizing in a style that must be described as cheerful despair.

By: Mark Kingwell

He tracked the “lines of flight” that ideas can take up against power.

By: Mark Kingwell

His slogan could be: To the appearances themselves!

By: Mark Kingwell

Embod­ied conscious­ness and being-in-the-world…

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

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 […]