In Being and Nothingness, Sartre refuses any dualistic thinking of the world, and introduces what he calls “being...
Why Did Sartre Refuse the Freudian Unconscious?
The unconscious, for Sartre, means that there is a part of ourselves that is absent, radically foreign, and...
Dostoyevsky’s Existentialism: What Does It Mean to Be a Self?
Perhaps it is through the following questions that Dostoyevsky’s writings might be approached: What does it mean to...
Heidegger: The Fourfold
The fourfold thinks the thing. It is the gathering of earth, sky, mortals, and divinities into the forming...
Foucault: Discontinuity and the New Historian
Foucault thinks the breaking up of history into fragments, and introduces a difference between histories of continuities and...
Descartes’s Anti-Ecological Philosophy and the Eco-Poetics of Surrealism
In Discourse on Method, Descartes places humans over against nature and brings them together into a relatedness governed...
Heidegger: The Death of God, Metaphysics, and Poetry
We belong to a time, according to Heidegger, in which a breaking up of the onto-theology holding metaphysics...
Surrealism Poetry Subversion
It is in the word of the poet that any possible undoing of the world dwells. Subversion dwells...
Lev Shestov’s Religious Existentialism
“Has there ever been a single philosopher who recognized God?” Perhaps this is one of the most important...
Artaud: Art, Anarchy, and the Unconscious of the Age
In his article, The Social Anarchy of Art, Antonin Artaud links together the artist and the unconscious of...
What Is Existential Isolation?
Existential isolation belongs to existence and arises because there is existence and existing, and because we exist; it...
Anna Akhmatova and the Poetics of Suffering
Perhaps it is only in the poetry of Anna Akhmatova that suffering, for the first time, opens itself...