Nietzsche says that since there is no meaning awaiting there to be found, we always invent that for...
Schopenhauer on Death and After-life
For Schopenhauer, death is central because it is linked with the “will-to-live”. Death also opens up a space...
Schopenhauer on Death and Philosophy
Schopenhauer constructs a philosophical system around and upon what he calls the “will-to-live” and thus implies death and...
What Did Sartre Say About the body?
The body is not a tool that the individual might use, but rather the center and origin of...
Nietzsche on Religion: “God Is Dead”
Perhaps it all began in Nietzsche’s philosophy; or perhaps the origin is very far from Nietzsche, yet it...
Schopenhauer on Suffering: “All Life Is Suffering”
Schopenhauer links together suffering and the “will-to-live”, thinks them form out of their togetherness, and says that suffering...
Heidegger: Authenticity, Historicality, and Heritage
In Being and Time, Heidegger says that the scope of the concept of authenticity must be extended to...
Sartre on Anguish: “We Are Anguish”
Sartre defines consciousness as nothingness and nothingness as freedom. It is in this togetherness of consciousness and freedom...
The Postmodern City: What Does It Look Like?
Every part of the postmodern city is multiple and other. The city is a discontinuity lacking any unity;...
What Does Heidegger Mean by “Dasein’s Thrownness”?
In Being and Time, Heidegger says that we are thrown into the world. In this short article, what...
What Does Sartre Mean by “Being in-Itself”?
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...