Themed Articles

Women Philosophers

Therese Dykeman on a case for a Sherlock Holmes and Dorothy Sayers.
[Issue 33: September/October 2001]

Fashion Emergency!

Feminist theory has recently faced accusations of trendiness, but Marianne Janack and Michelle LaRocque leap to its defence.
[Issue 33: September/October 2001]

Why Feminists Should Oppose Feminist Virtue Ethics

Some feminists say women should forget old-fashioned ethical rules and focus on developing positive aspects of their characters. Not so, says Sarah Conly.
[Issue 33: September/October 2001]

Existentialism

An introduction to our existential special issue by Anja Steinbauer.
[Issue 32: June/July 2001]

Rodents to Freedom

Matthew Coniam says that Groundhog Day explains existentialism more entertainingly than Sartre.
[Issue 32: June/July 2001]

The Forgotten Existentialist

Matthew Coniam on Colin Wilson.
[Issue 32: June/July 2001]

Imagination & Creativity in Jean-Paul Sartre

Understanding the imagination was central to Sartre’s attempts to understand what it is to be human, and how we should live. Maria Antonietta Perna thinks he had important insights which are still worth considering.
[Issue 32: June/July 2001]

Existentialism & Literature

More than any other recent philosophical movement, the existentialists communicated their ideas through plays, novels and short stories. Peter Rickman asks: why did existentialism resort to literary expression?
[Issue 32: June/July 2001]

Becoming a Philosopher

Jonathan Rée on Søren Kierkegaard and the struggle to become a real thinker.
[Issue 32: June/July 2001]

Heidegger, Metaphysics & Wheelbarrows

Richard Oxenberg gives a poetic introduction to Heidegger’s Being and Time.
[Issue 32: June/July 2001]

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