General Articles: Brief Lives

M.M. Bakhtin (1895-1975)

Vladimir Makovtsev asks: M.M. Bakhtin, philosopher or philologist?
[Issue 161: April/May 2024]

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

Hilarius Bogbinder looks at a man who wanted to make Peace from Warre.
[Issue 160: February/March 2024]

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)

Warren Ward looks at the history of a man who looked at the history of the world.
[Issue 159: December 2023 / January 2024]

Prince Shōtoku (574-622)

B.V.E. Hyde looks at the statesman who fathered Japanese philosophy.
[Issue 158: October/November 2023]

Augustine (354-430)

Hilarius Bogbinder on the philosophical life of a key figure of the Catholic Church.
[Issue 157: August/September 2023]

Nima Adlerblum (1881-1974)

Brad Rappaport looks at the life of a Jewish philosopher combatting the secular forces of modernism.
[Issue 156: June/July 2023]

Chamfort (1740-1794)

Martin Jenkins looks at the life of a wry observer of society, cut short by that society’s revolutionary turmoil.
[Issue 155: April/May 2023]

Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749)

Andrea Reichenberger presents a fulcrum of the European Enlightenment.
[Issue 154: February/March 2023]

Cicero (106-43 BC)

Hilarius Bogbinder considers the inconstant career of the most famous politician-philosopher named after a legume.
[Issue 153: December 2022 / January 2023]

Michel Foucault (1926-84)

Roy Williams analyses a notorious yet influential post-modern philosophe.
[Issue 152: October/November 2022]