Tag: "postmodernism"

Epicurus & Job

Benjamin Kerstein explores an ancient faultline in Western thinking and modern culture by comparing the philosophies of Epicurus and Job.
[Issue 104: September/October 2014: The Other Greek Philosophers]

The Bottle

Peter Colbourne tells us a tale of lost philosophers.
[Issue 88: January/February 2012: Fiction]

Beware of Truth!

Peter Benson tries to clear Jacques Derrida’s unjustly infamous name, and shows how memes spread in modern academia.
[Issue 72: March/April 2009: Articles]

Erudition or Gobbledygook?

Tom Shipka considers whether the negativity of communicative unclarity impedes the ontological contingency of non-distance in the dialectic of being, or something.
[Issue 62: July/August 2007: Articles]

The Death of Postmodernism And Beyond

Alan Kirby says postmodernism is dead and buried. In its place comes a new paradigm of authority and knowledge formed under the pressure of new technologies and contemporary social forces.
[Issue 58: November/December 2006: Articles]

After Theory by Terry Eagleton

Abdelkader Aoudjit discusses Terry Eagleton’s take on what comes after postmodernism.
[Issue 55: May/June 2006: Books]

Modern Communication, Culture & Philosophy

Vladimir Mironov on semiotics and postmodernism in a shrinking world.
[Issue 54: February/March 2006: Philosophy in Russia]

Ships on a Collision Course

Roger Caldwell revisits reality (and postmodernism, too!).
[Issue 50: March/April 2005: Articles]

Challenging Postmodernism by David Detmer

Barry Seidman enjoys David Detmer’s provocative book about Postmodernism, Humanism and the Left.
[Issue 50: March/April 2005: Books]

Ships that should Pass in the Night

Jason Wasserman on balancing the claims of Postmodernism and Critical Realism.
[Issue 48: October/November 2004: Articles]