In ancient thought, Plato was considered a theologian. Later Platonism took Plato’s thinking as theologizing. Proclus approaches his...
Sartre: “Man Is a Useless Passion”
In Being and Nothingness, Sartre says that “man is a useless passion”: An acknowledgment of the human condition...
Explaining Sartre’s “Transcendence-Transcended”
In Sartre’s existentialism, “transcendence-transcended” is a mode of being. The human being is a transcendence, an entity that...
Foucault on the History of Governmentality
Foucault introduces the term ‘governmentality’ in Security, Territory, Population, and The Birth of Biopolitics at the Collège de...
Sartre’s Existentialism, Poststructuralism, and the Subject
It is often assumed that existentialism and “poststructuralism” think differently toward the subject and its place in thought...
Heidegger: Possibilities and Ways of Freedom
Heidegger constantly thinks toward toward freedom. Freedom is questioned, approached, and investigated everywhere in his writings and lectures.
Sartre and Marxism: The Problem of Freedom
Sartre, in his later work, attempts to bring his version of existentialism together with Marxism. This attempt is...
Phenomenology; Briefly Explained
Phenomenology is a radical and anti-traditional way of philosophizing. That it is a way of doing philosophy indicates...
Marx on Religion: “The Sigh of the Oppressed”
For Marx, religion alienates our longings; it is the alienation of our wishes. It is here on earth...
Plato on Goodness and the Good
Goodness and the good lie at the heart of the thinking-philosophizing of Plato. The good is that toward...
Camus on Religion: “Living Without Appeal”
The question concerning religion lies at the heart of the existential thinking of Camus. This is because Camus’s...
Foucault and Religion After the Death of God and Man
In the writings of Foucault, religion is thought in light of the death of God and man and...
Existentialism and Sexual Difference: Sexism and Failures
A critique that is often directed toward existentialism is that it ignores sexual difference either by leaving it...
Derrida on Translation: Necessary and Impossible
Derrida problematizes translation by deconstructing the places that philosophy reserves for speech and writing, originals and copies, and...
Heidegger on Angst (Anxiety, Dread, or Anguish)
Angst is a mood that individualizes Dasein by proving that social relations and determined roles can never make...
Sartre on Consciousness: “There Is Consciousness”
Firstly, the realization that there is consciousness. Secondly, discovering what is not consciousness, which is the world. Finally,...
De Beauvoir on Bad Faith: Against Sartre?
Investigating and questioning the possibilities and limits of bad faith lie at the heart of the existential thinking-philosophizing...
Derrida on Death in Aporias
For Derrida, death is a border that has no borders, resembling God, and is thus an aporia. Derrida...
De Beauvoir on Death: Between Sartre and Heidegger
Between de Beauvoir and death, there is a non-simple relatedness, in which Sartre’s Being and Nothingness and Heidegger’s...
Heidegger: Ready-to-Hand and Present-at-Hand
For Heidegger, the objects with which Dasein comes face to face do not have the same way of...