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...
Sartre’s Atheism: Philosophical and Personal
Sartre’s atheism is radical; it is philosophical and personal, ontological and subjective, phenomenological and poetic; it is the...
Simone de Beauvoir on Woman as Other
The entire existential thinking-philosophizing of de Beauvoir arises from, revolves around, critiques, and argues against the problem of...
Foucault on Language: An Outside To Infinity
Foucault thinks language according to a movement, which appears repeatedly in his writings, of simultaneous constituting and undoing,...
The Roots of Existentialism: Socrates
Between existentialism and the thinking-philosophizing of Socrates, there is a relatedness; that is, there are similarities, continuities, and...
Sartre: Committed Writing and Changing the World
For Sartre, committed writing aims at changing the world by disclosing it and by asking and investigating the...
Plato on Self-Knowledge: How Could One Know Oneself?
The thinking-philosophizing of Plato is held together by a demand for self-knowledge, by a demand for knowing oneself,...
Derrida on Hospitality as Welcoming the Unwelcomable
Derrida deconstructs hospitality and all acts of welcoming by exposing them to their own impossibilities, that is, by...
Sartre’s Denial of Human Nature
The existentialism of Sartre arises from the conviction that there is no human nature. “Existence precedes essence” conveys...
Explaining Foucault’s Archeology
Foucault’s archeology is, according to Foucault, an archeology of knowledge. Knowledge is that toward which the archeological activity...
Derrida on the Event: Singular/Iterable
For Derrida, an event truly worthy of the name must be irruptive, unforeseeable, and incalculable, bordering on incomprehension...
Plato on Happiness and the Happy Life
Happiness, for us, is a feeling; short-lived or abiding. Happiness, for Plato and in ancient Greek thought, refers...
Heidegger on Authenticity: Realizing Finitude
Heidegger thinks the authenticity and inauthenticity of Dasein from out of a specific relatedness into which he places...