Themed Articles

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]

Do You Really Know How to Cook?

Lisa Heldke sticks up for the pastry chefs against Plato and the physicians.
[Issue 31: March/April 2001]

Philosophy Regains its Senses

Ray Boisvert describes the disdain which many philosophers down the ages have had for food, and the dire consequences this has had for their philosophy.
[Issue 31: March/April 2001]

Philosophy & Food

Are we what we eat? Feast your mind on the next few articles, says this issue’s editor Jeremy Iggers, philosopher and restaurant critic.
[Issue 31: March/April 2001]

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