Arts & Letters Daily search results for “william james” (4)
2014-11-05 | Our bladders, our destinies. William James called free will 'the whole sting and excitement? of life. Can something so central hinge on having to pee? more »
2010-01-01 | William James: just about the only philosopher who didnâ?'t end up as either a pettifogging nit-picker or an overbearing egomaniac with delusions of genius more »
2018-01-09 | William James saw himself as a popularizer, not an originator. He was harsh about his own work: “No one could be more disgusted than I at the sight of the book” more »
2018-10-15 | When his aged father and newborn son died within a few years of each other, William James took an interest in "ghosts and clairvoyances and raps and messages from spirits" more »
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For Nietzsche-
2014-03-15 | Atheists vs. Nietzsche. While they may agree that God is dead, many espouse the sort of liberalism that Nietzsche ridiculed. It's awkward more »
2018-08-31 | The Nietzsche wars have raged for more than a century. When a sunny, happier, and more literary Nietzsche threatened to take hold, the bad Nietzsche was never far behind more »
2012-08-16 | When Nietzsche died, among the combatants over his legacy was Harry Kessler, whom Auden called "the most cosmopolitan man" more »
2014-02-28 | God's enemies ? Marx, Nietzsche, Hitchens ? are many. But the Almighty, says Terry Eagleton, is ?remarkably difficult to dispose of? more »
2014-01-11 | Nietzsche called himself the ?last antipolitical German,' a declaration that did little to deter Nazi officials from staking a claim on his ideas more »
2012-08-16 | A little sincerity is a good thing, but too much is toxic. Nietzsche said it best: "The truly sincere person ends up understanding that he is always lying" more »
2013-04-01 | Abysses are monstrous, terrifying, and, in literature, ubiquitous. Here they are in Baudelaire, there in Nietzsche, everywhere in Kafka more »
2014-07-15 | The tedium of ?evangelical atheism.' Do the New Atheists even know what religion is? They should reread their Nietzsche more »
2016-08-27 | Rousseau, Nietzsche, Isaiah Berlin, Leo Strauss — the history of modernism is full of pessimists. But modernity is about more than great books more »
2017-05-27 | At 32 Nietzsche left Basel to recuperate in Sorrento. There he separated himself from Wagner, which was odd — Wagner was also in Sorrento more »
2013-07-22 | For a German philosopher to revive the idea of the superman is risky. But Peter Sloterdijk takes his Nietzsche guilt-free more »
2010-01-01 | Friedrich Nietzsche cultivated the alien form of Dionysus on the soil of his native Pietism. In truth, he never overcame his childhood religion more »
2016-06-14 | Portrait of Nietzsche as a young philosopher. He was brilliant, pretentious, seemingly uninterested in sex, and suffered occasional bouts of humility more »
2017-12-25 | Sexual liberation in fiction. Edith Wharton’s writing on sex was informed by Whitman, Nietzsche, and Wilde, and an affair with a journalist more »
2016-05-07 | Nietzsche completed his first memoir at 13, and wrote another five over the next decade. He wrote to see who he was. What he was was a mama's boy more »
2017-05-09 | Poor Nietzsche. Not only is he blamed for World War I and Nazism, but he's maligned as the godfather of postmodern relativism. Nonsense. He was a champion of the Enlightenment more »
2011-01-01 | Nietzsche: a gentle professor who liked to think of himself as a wild beast on the rampage, an intellectual terrorist out to destroy Christianity more »
2016-12-02 | Boredom gets a bad rap. We need it in order to live and think well. Its defenders include Bertrand Russell, Nietzsche, Sontag more »
2017-01-18 | Is psychology the key to understanding the politics of resentment, antagonism, and self-contradiction? Pankaj Mishra enjoins us to revisit Rousseau, Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche more »
2018-10-08 | A humorless, misogynistic Nazi? Nietzsche does not deserve his bad rap. After all, as Hitler said of him, “He is not my guide” more »
2016-04-16 | Inspired by Nietzsche, the architect Philip Johnson went to Berlin to understand both art and power. There he marveled at blond boys in black leather paying homage to Hitler more »
2017-03-17 | Unlike some name-brand atheists, Nietzsche didn’t waste time on easy targets like miracles or relics. He laughed at God. And nothing restores a sense of proportion like a sense of humor more »
2018-09-18 | Nietzsche aimed to terrify rather than instruct. If his philosophy can be used as therapy, it’s through the ability to deliver an electric jolt to our souls more »
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For Freud-
2017-01-16 | Freud and women, Freud the clinician, Freud with his cigars, Freud and cocaine: Despite the vast materials by and about him, or perhaps because of them, we still don't know who Freud really was more »
2014-09-24 | ?Be prepared to see something that you will not like,' Freud told his doctor. He opened his mouth. It was cancer. Freud started to plan how to die more »
2011-01-01 | Lucian Freud, divisive, bleak portrait artist, old-school bohemian, wry conversationalist, is dead at 88 more »
2014-06-23 | A Freud for every era: scientist, clinician, provocateur, kook, critic, translator. We see the man we need to see more »
2013-08-23 | Shakespeare on the couch. Did Hamlet - his desire, guilt, shame, need for love - inspire Freud to invent psychoanalysis? more »
2012-12-06 | Reading Freud in Tehran. Oedipus complexes and incestuous dreams: neurosis knows no boundaries. The talking cure catches on in Iran more »
2013-12-31 | ?A jest,' said Freud, ?betrays something serious.' Chaplin, Pryor, Belushi, Grimaldi the clown. Are comedy and happiness incompatible? more »
2012-04-28 | The struggle for Harold Bloom's soul. On one side, Emerson, apostle of the self. On the other, Freud, the pessimist. The battle has been long and fruitful more »
2014-01-21 | Reinhold Niebuhr called anxiety 'the inevitable spiritual state of man?; Freud called it a riddle. But it isn't either one. It's an illness more »
2014-01-24 | Expelled from one art school and the prime suspect in the arson of another, Lucian Freud had a gift for belligerence. But he just kept on painting more »
2016-03-08 | A book can open up the world. Death is integral to that world. Sontag, Sendak, Updike, Freud: What happens when a writer reaches the end? more »
2013-05-10 | Critical theory has long been in eclipse, Freud and Marx in rigor mortis. The humanities are adrift, without a unifying intellectual movement. Here comes neuroscience more »
2017-08-11 | Freud the philosopher. Before psychoanalysis, he was primarily concerned with destroying what was then an intellectual orthodoxy: mind-body dualism more »
2017-09-13 | Freud has been debunked, yet the apparatus that defends him persists. Why do his ideas endure? Because we want to believe them more »
2017-12-11 | Freud’s theories don’t mesh well with modern science. Yet he represents something important for neuroscientists: the possibility that laws govern mental life more »
2013-05-30 | What makes Jewish humor Jewish? Irony and self-deprecation. According to Freud, no other people makes so much fun of its own character more »
2014-04-09 | Can an octopus think? How about an earthworm, or a sea snail? Darwin, Freud, Kandel, and the strange world of lower-organism cognition more »
2014-12-04 | For an apostle of alienation, Herbert Marcuse sure was a media star. To think his unsettling blend of Hegel, Marx, and Freud ended up in Playboy more »
2013-11-29 | The high/low life of Lucian Freud involved dukes, duchesses, gangsters, and bookies, as well as supermarket fistfights and sexual sadism more »
2010-01-01 | From Freud to Marxism to ESP to a whole series of women, when in the grip of a mania, Arthur Koestler was incapable of seeing anything else more »
2014-02-15 | Reading Hamlet through the lens of Benjamin, Freud, and Lacan? A philosopher husband and psychoanalyst wife take a ?rash lovers? risk? more »
2012-12-18 | It's been said that Cézanne altered our conception of the world. Maybe. But comparing him to Marx and Freud? Julian Barnes isn't having it more »
2013-10-12 | Lucian Freud was talented, witty, and secretive, which makes sense because he had much to conceal: gambling debts, hundreds of lovers, many children more »
2010-01-01 | When The Onion reported, "New Study Reveals Most Children Unrepentant Sociopaths," it supported a tradition going back to Freud. Are small children actually moral beings? more »
2017-09-28 | What bound the artists Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon? A love of gambling and drinking, an interest in horses, and their belligerence and cruelty more »
2012-12-28 | The struggle for Harold Bloom's soul. On one side, Emerson, apostle of the self. On the other, Freud, the pessimist. The battle has been long and fruitful more »
2013-12-14 | Anna and Sigmund. They discussed housework, foraging for mushrooms and berries, her weight, his health. Oh, the minutiae of life as a Freud more »
2017-04-04 | Freud envisioned civilization’s advances bringing not happiness but unassuaged guilt.That's one explanation for the prestige of victims in the contemporary world more »
2015-11-26 | Have you forsaken the possibility of transcendence and settled for a life of safety and predictability? Blame Shakespeare and Freud more »
2017-09-23 | Consider the couch. From the supine symposia of ancient Greece to Freud’s psychoanalytic sessions, horizontality has been associated with deep thinking -- why? more »
2018-07-11 | Our culture scoffs at Freud and Jung and puts its faith in science and statistics. One hole in this pervasive rationality: the magic of coincidences more »
2018-05-17 | Lucian Freud ignored the rise of abstraction; David Hockney unfashionably persisted in depicting love and happiness. Britain’s postwar painters had a talent for taboo-breaking more »
2017-03-09 | Of ice and art. From Burke’s sublime to Freud’s unconscious to Hemingway’s theory of artistic ingenuity, the iceberg has come to represent the creative process. Why? more »
2016-10-15 | Degas vs. Manet, Matisse vs. Picasso, Pollock vs. de Kooning, Bacon vs. Freud. Other than knives through canvases and sexual intrigue, what makes an artistic rivalry memorable? more »
2017-08-15 | He was reckless and inept, bilked his rich and hopeless clients, slept with his sister-in-law, molested his younger sister. Was this the real Sigmund Freud? more »
2017-01-24 | Freud’s founding circle had 13 members. Only one was gentile. Almost all of their patients were Jewish as well. How to explain the Jewish predilection for psychoanalysis? more »
2017-02-04 | Freud and Bacon. Matisse and Picasso. Degas and Manet. Pollock and de Kooning. Friendship between artists is marked by the longing to be close and the need to stand apart more »
2014-03-15 | Atheists vs. Nietzsche. While they may agree that God is dead, many espouse the sort of liberalism that Nietzsche ridiculed. It's awkward more »
2018-08-31 | The Nietzsche wars have raged for more than a century. When a sunny, happier, and more literary Nietzsche threatened to take hold, the bad Nietzsche was never far behind more »
2012-08-16 | When Nietzsche died, among the combatants over his legacy was Harry Kessler, whom Auden called "the most cosmopolitan man" more »
2014-02-28 | God's enemies ? Marx, Nietzsche, Hitchens ? are many. But the Almighty, says Terry Eagleton, is ?remarkably difficult to dispose of? more »
2014-01-11 | Nietzsche called himself the ?last antipolitical German,' a declaration that did little to deter Nazi officials from staking a claim on his ideas more »
2012-08-16 | A little sincerity is a good thing, but too much is toxic. Nietzsche said it best: "The truly sincere person ends up understanding that he is always lying" more »
2013-04-01 | Abysses are monstrous, terrifying, and, in literature, ubiquitous. Here they are in Baudelaire, there in Nietzsche, everywhere in Kafka more »
2014-07-15 | The tedium of ?evangelical atheism.' Do the New Atheists even know what religion is? They should reread their Nietzsche more »
2016-08-27 | Rousseau, Nietzsche, Isaiah Berlin, Leo Strauss — the history of modernism is full of pessimists. But modernity is about more than great books more »
2017-05-27 | At 32 Nietzsche left Basel to recuperate in Sorrento. There he separated himself from Wagner, which was odd — Wagner was also in Sorrento more »
2013-07-22 | For a German philosopher to revive the idea of the superman is risky. But Peter Sloterdijk takes his Nietzsche guilt-free more »
2010-01-01 | Friedrich Nietzsche cultivated the alien form of Dionysus on the soil of his native Pietism. In truth, he never overcame his childhood religion more »
2016-06-14 | Portrait of Nietzsche as a young philosopher. He was brilliant, pretentious, seemingly uninterested in sex, and suffered occasional bouts of humility more »
2017-12-25 | Sexual liberation in fiction. Edith Wharton’s writing on sex was informed by Whitman, Nietzsche, and Wilde, and an affair with a journalist more »
2016-05-07 | Nietzsche completed his first memoir at 13, and wrote another five over the next decade. He wrote to see who he was. What he was was a mama's boy more »
2017-05-09 | Poor Nietzsche. Not only is he blamed for World War I and Nazism, but he's maligned as the godfather of postmodern relativism. Nonsense. He was a champion of the Enlightenment more »
2011-01-01 | Nietzsche: a gentle professor who liked to think of himself as a wild beast on the rampage, an intellectual terrorist out to destroy Christianity more »
2016-12-02 | Boredom gets a bad rap. We need it in order to live and think well. Its defenders include Bertrand Russell, Nietzsche, Sontag more »
2017-01-18 | Is psychology the key to understanding the politics of resentment, antagonism, and self-contradiction? Pankaj Mishra enjoins us to revisit Rousseau, Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche more »
2018-10-08 | A humorless, misogynistic Nazi? Nietzsche does not deserve his bad rap. After all, as Hitler said of him, “He is not my guide” more »
2016-04-16 | Inspired by Nietzsche, the architect Philip Johnson went to Berlin to understand both art and power. There he marveled at blond boys in black leather paying homage to Hitler more »
2017-03-17 | Unlike some name-brand atheists, Nietzsche didn’t waste time on easy targets like miracles or relics. He laughed at God. And nothing restores a sense of proportion like a sense of humor more »
2018-09-18 | Nietzsche aimed to terrify rather than instruct. If his philosophy can be used as therapy, it’s through the ability to deliver an electric jolt to our souls more »
2017-01-16 | Freud and women, Freud the clinician, Freud with his cigars, Freud and cocaine: Despite the vast materials by and about him, or perhaps because of them, we still don't know who Freud really was more »
2014-09-24 | ?Be prepared to see something that you will not like,' Freud told his doctor. He opened his mouth. It was cancer. Freud started to plan how to die more »
2011-01-01 | Lucian Freud, divisive, bleak portrait artist, old-school bohemian, wry conversationalist, is dead at 88 more »
2014-06-23 | A Freud for every era: scientist, clinician, provocateur, kook, critic, translator. We see the man we need to see more »
2013-08-23 | Shakespeare on the couch. Did Hamlet - his desire, guilt, shame, need for love - inspire Freud to invent psychoanalysis? more »
2012-12-06 | Reading Freud in Tehran. Oedipus complexes and incestuous dreams: neurosis knows no boundaries. The talking cure catches on in Iran more »
2013-12-31 | ?A jest,' said Freud, ?betrays something serious.' Chaplin, Pryor, Belushi, Grimaldi the clown. Are comedy and happiness incompatible? more »
2012-04-28 | The struggle for Harold Bloom's soul. On one side, Emerson, apostle of the self. On the other, Freud, the pessimist. The battle has been long and fruitful more »
2014-01-21 | Reinhold Niebuhr called anxiety 'the inevitable spiritual state of man?; Freud called it a riddle. But it isn't either one. It's an illness more »
2014-01-24 | Expelled from one art school and the prime suspect in the arson of another, Lucian Freud had a gift for belligerence. But he just kept on painting more »
2016-03-08 | A book can open up the world. Death is integral to that world. Sontag, Sendak, Updike, Freud: What happens when a writer reaches the end? more »
2013-05-10 | Critical theory has long been in eclipse, Freud and Marx in rigor mortis. The humanities are adrift, without a unifying intellectual movement. Here comes neuroscience more »
2017-08-11 | Freud the philosopher. Before psychoanalysis, he was primarily concerned with destroying what was then an intellectual orthodoxy: mind-body dualism more »
2017-09-13 | Freud has been debunked, yet the apparatus that defends him persists. Why do his ideas endure? Because we want to believe them more »
2017-12-11 | Freud’s theories don’t mesh well with modern science. Yet he represents something important for neuroscientists: the possibility that laws govern mental life more »
2013-05-30 | What makes Jewish humor Jewish? Irony and self-deprecation. According to Freud, no other people makes so much fun of its own character more »
2014-04-09 | Can an octopus think? How about an earthworm, or a sea snail? Darwin, Freud, Kandel, and the strange world of lower-organism cognition more »
2014-12-04 | For an apostle of alienation, Herbert Marcuse sure was a media star. To think his unsettling blend of Hegel, Marx, and Freud ended up in Playboy more »
2013-11-29 | The high/low life of Lucian Freud involved dukes, duchesses, gangsters, and bookies, as well as supermarket fistfights and sexual sadism more »
2010-01-01 | From Freud to Marxism to ESP to a whole series of women, when in the grip of a mania, Arthur Koestler was incapable of seeing anything else more »
2014-02-15 | Reading Hamlet through the lens of Benjamin, Freud, and Lacan? A philosopher husband and psychoanalyst wife take a ?rash lovers? risk? more »
2012-12-18 | It's been said that Cézanne altered our conception of the world. Maybe. But comparing him to Marx and Freud? Julian Barnes isn't having it more »
2013-10-12 | Lucian Freud was talented, witty, and secretive, which makes sense because he had much to conceal: gambling debts, hundreds of lovers, many children more »
2010-01-01 | When The Onion reported, "New Study Reveals Most Children Unrepentant Sociopaths," it supported a tradition going back to Freud. Are small children actually moral beings? more »
2017-09-28 | What bound the artists Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon? A love of gambling and drinking, an interest in horses, and their belligerence and cruelty more »
2012-12-28 | The struggle for Harold Bloom's soul. On one side, Emerson, apostle of the self. On the other, Freud, the pessimist. The battle has been long and fruitful more »
2013-12-14 | Anna and Sigmund. They discussed housework, foraging for mushrooms and berries, her weight, his health. Oh, the minutiae of life as a Freud more »
2017-04-04 | Freud envisioned civilization’s advances bringing not happiness but unassuaged guilt.That's one explanation for the prestige of victims in the contemporary world more »
2015-11-26 | Have you forsaken the possibility of transcendence and settled for a life of safety and predictability? Blame Shakespeare and Freud more »
2017-09-23 | Consider the couch. From the supine symposia of ancient Greece to Freud’s psychoanalytic sessions, horizontality has been associated with deep thinking -- why? more »
2018-07-11 | Our culture scoffs at Freud and Jung and puts its faith in science and statistics. One hole in this pervasive rationality: the magic of coincidences more »
2018-05-17 | Lucian Freud ignored the rise of abstraction; David Hockney unfashionably persisted in depicting love and happiness. Britain’s postwar painters had a talent for taboo-breaking more »
2017-03-09 | Of ice and art. From Burke’s sublime to Freud’s unconscious to Hemingway’s theory of artistic ingenuity, the iceberg has come to represent the creative process. Why? more »
2016-10-15 | Degas vs. Manet, Matisse vs. Picasso, Pollock vs. de Kooning, Bacon vs. Freud. Other than knives through canvases and sexual intrigue, what makes an artistic rivalry memorable? more »
2017-08-15 | He was reckless and inept, bilked his rich and hopeless clients, slept with his sister-in-law, molested his younger sister. Was this the real Sigmund Freud? more »
2017-01-24 | Freud’s founding circle had 13 members. Only one was gentile. Almost all of their patients were Jewish as well. How to explain the Jewish predilection for psychoanalysis? more »
2017-02-04 | Freud and Bacon. Matisse and Picasso. Degas and Manet. Pollock and de Kooning. Friendship between artists is marked by the longing to be close and the need to stand apart more »
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Mill deserves more attention.Arts & Letters Daily search results for “john stuart mill” (4)
2018-02-17 | The comprehensive John Stuart Mill. He was out to combine Bentham with poetry, the Enlightenment with Romanticism, and to span the entire philosophy of his time more »
2015-04-01 | When Friedrich Hayek became obsessed with John Stuart Mill, it wasn't Mill's intellect that captivated Hayek. It was his love life more »
2016-11-07 | Democracy is flawed: Citizens lack knowledge and judgment. John Stuart Mill proposed giving extra votes to those with university degrees. An idea whose time has come more »
2011-01-01 | That John Stuart Mill, apostle of freedom, should have so enslaved himself to such a woman as Harriett Taylor shows that more is needed to be free than to live in a free country more »
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On Kierkegaard:
2013-05-08 | Postmodern before postmodernism, existentialist before Sartre, ironic before irony was debased: Kierkegaard, rejected in his time, is a man for our time more »
2014-04-15 | An engagement as binding as marriage. Kierkegaard and Regine Olsen never married; nevertheless, theirs was one of the great literary loves more »
2016-10-06 | Hope amid cynicism, sickness, and death. Kierkegaard renounced worldly pleasures, like trips to the countryside and even marriage. But his vision wasn’t entirely pessimistic more »
2013-02-19 | Our future is measured by the books we intend to read. Kierkegaard understood the anxiety. As more becomes possible, he said, less becomes actual more »
2013-05-15 | What is loneliness? It's not solitude or what Kierkegaard called 'shut-upness.' It's an interior experience. And it can kill you more »
2014-03-24 | Stress is thought to be a bad thing. But there is vitality in anxiety. Kierkegaard called it 'the dizziness of freedom,' and it's perversely pleasurable more »
2016-05-20 | Kant declared fashion "foolish." To Kierkegaard, outer garments kept us from ascertaining inner truth. But clothes are a form of thought, freighted with meaning more »
2018-03-22 | “The two ways," Kierkegaard wrote. "One is to suffer; the other is to become a professor of the fact that another suffered.” But few suffered as much as the woman who loved him more »
2016-10-28 | Kierkegaard broke off his engagement claiming to be a young cad in need of a “lusty young girl.” But it was more than that. His entire philosophy can be found in that renunciation more »
2017-11-15 | Kierkegaard is a favorite of angsty adolescents. But it is adults, more than ever, who can most benefit from the ethical seriousness of his life and work more »
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On Marx [Karl AND Groucho]:
2016-09-02 | Sex and socialism. Women formed the bedrock of the Engels-Marx alliance. For Eleanor Marx, Muriel Lester, and others, the revolution was personal more »
2016-02-27 | When Groucho Marx met T.S. Eliot. They had dinner in June 1964. Marx lectured Eliot on King Lear. It was excruciating more »
2014-02-28 | God's enemies ? Marx, Nietzsche, Hitchens ? are many. But the Almighty, says Terry Eagleton, is ?remarkably difficult to dispose of? more »
2013-10-12 | Shadowy revolutionary or quiet theorist? We misrepresent Karl Marx when we fail to consider the vibrant disorder of his world more »
2015-03-03 | Eleanor Marx ? gadfly of literary London, gender theorist, translator of Flaubert and Ibsen ? never strayed from the family religion: socialism more »
2012-12-18 | It's been said that Cézanne altered our conception of the world. Maybe. But comparing him to Marx and Freud? Julian Barnes isn't having it more »
2014-07-01 | Anti-Semitism, caustic sex jokes, class-based put-downs galore. The friendship of T.S. Eliot and Groucho Marx was anything but friendly more »
2011-01-01 | As regards pace of change, leftists are already more conservative than they like to admit, says Jonny Thakkar. Conservatives, however, should brush up on their Marx more »
2013-11-04 | A modern Marx. Jonathan Sperber's attempt to confine the man to his milieu misses the point. Marx's ideas shape our world more »
2016-04-01 | The Marx Brothers were antic, zany, madcap, anarchic. Yet scholars and critics insist on attaching deep significance to the act. Groucho would object more »
2011-01-01 | It takes an unusual intellectual - shrewd, polemical, willfully ignorant - to title a book Why Marx Was Right, and Terry Eagleton is all that more »
2010-01-01 | The ravening US consumer appears to be finished as the worldâ?'s buyer of last resort. Time for post-bubble Americans to turn to a study of Marx more »
2013-05-10 | Critical theory has long been in eclipse, Freud and Marx in rigor mortis. The humanities are adrift, without a unifying intellectual movement. Here comes neuroscience more »
2016-07-08 | Schooled in both Aquinas and Marx, Terry Eagleton remains the best advertisement for articulate argument and trenchant literary judgment more »
2017-03-29 | Long before he encountered Marx, Lenin was radicalized by literature. He read Shakespeare, Goethe, and Pushkin aloud. He was hostile to the avant-garde more »
2014-05-12 | The education of Eleanor Marx was conducted at her father's knee. She was Karl's creation, though a formidable intellectual in her own right more »
2014-12-04 | For an apostle of alienation, Herbert Marcuse sure was a media star. To think his unsettling blend of Hegel, Marx, and Freud ended up in Playboy more »
2013-11-15 | Coming across a kindred spirit in a text can cause sweating, crying, even disrobing. Thus Marshall Berman's first encounter with Marx more »
2010-01-01 | Anarchists were for Marx wild children who were incapable of building a new social order. Yes, but they saw the authoritarian bent in Marxism more »
2016-10-05 | An imperious 19th-century philosopher engaged in ad hominem attacks and obscure internecine disputes. Eleven people showed up for his funeral. His name: Karl Marx more »
2014-11-27 | From Hugh Hefner to Gloria Steinem, Reinhold Niebuhr to Groucho Marx: These 100 people defined the 20th century ? at least according to The New Republic more »
2014-01-23 | For Karl Marx, the proletarian revolution was to be global: ?Workers of all lands, unite.' It never happened. Here's why it still might more »
2013-06-25 | An aspiring young reporter with a lisp and a provincial accent, Karl Marx started his career working for a ?distinctly capitalist? newspaper more »
2015-04-11 | In Victorian London, intellectuals looked for love in the British Museum's reading room. One of the most disastrous unions: Eleanor Marx and Edward Aveling more »
2011-01-01 | Marshall McLuhan is the Marx of the media age. But his Catholicism was no deadening opiate. It made him more ambitious and far-reaching more »
2015-12-25 | Chimen Abramsky made room in his London home for 20,000 volumes, including first editions by Spinoza and Marx. Meet one of the 20th
century’s great bibliophiles more »
century’s great bibliophiles more »
2017-09-05 | "All that is solid melts into air," wrote Marx in the 19th century. He was premature. Postmodernity, which aspires to melt solids, arrived a century later. A pre-history of post-truth more »
2016-09-21 | 1862 was a low point for Marx. Europe had taken a conservative turn. He was obscure and in poor health. So he pursued a new career: railway clerk more »
2010-01-01 | Let the West bring a WTO free-trade case against China for Web censorship. As Marx said, trade is the "heavy artillery" that "batters down all Chinese walls." Including computer firewalls more »
2011-01-01 | Murder and despotism, the legacy of Marxism? Terry Eagleton wants to correct the record. "Marx is no more responsible for the oppression of communism than Jesus is responsible for the Inquisition" more »
2016-08-05 | Marx’s views were occasionally prescient, often wrong-headed, sometimes repugnant. But they had little in common with what later came to be understood as Marxism more »
2018-03-21 | "I am sick to death of hearing about Karl Marx. I am sick of his name, his -isms, his undoubted genius, and his 'philosophy.' Most of all, I am sick of his 'relevance'" more »
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On Darwin:
2010-01-01 | 'Charles Darwin''s natural selection is one of the grandest ideas of any age. Herbert Spencer''s use of Darwin is quite another story' more »
2011-01-01 | The city that Darwin built. Can evolutionary theory bring aimless, shabby Binghamton, N.Y. back to life? more »
2013-12-05 | Was Shakespeare more significant than Darwin, or Mill more than Malthus? Can greatness be quantified? Cass Sunstein has his doubts more »
2010-01-01 | Libertarians need Charles Darwin because a Darwinian science of human evolution supports classical liberalism more »
2013-06-27 | Is evolution a means or an end? The question of biological teleology agonized Darwin. Just consider the stegosaurus more »
2015-04-06 | Half of Americans reject evolution, the second-lowest acceptance rate of 34 developed countries. Just try defending Darwin in Kentucky more »
2011-01-01 | Darwin has displaced Hegel as a political thinker, suggests Francis Fukuyama. Is this the end of the end of history? more »
2013-01-26 | Galileo, Newton, Darwin, Heisenberg: Scientific progress has always required heroic minds, not necessarily heroic morals. Adam Gopnik elaborates more »
2015-07-27 | Copernicus, Darwin, and ... Ernest Lawrence? He ushered in the era of Big Science, transforming the way knowledge advances more »
2017-09-19 | Books by Charles Darwin number 25. Books about Darwin number 7,500, with 160 more titles each year. Is there anything new to say on the subject? Yes more »
2010-01-01 | Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini and Jerry Fodor may not be creationists, but that only makes more flagrant the stupidity of their case against Darwin more »
2017-02-13 | "Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." Darwin dealt with human evolution in only 12 words. But that was enough more »
2018-05-16 | Useful in crime-scene investigations since China’s Qin dynasty, fingerprintingconfounded Darwin and absolved Picasso. Where, exactly, does the technique come from? more »
2012-08-16 | Richard Dawkins talks with Playboy. They discuss the usual things: Jesus, Darwin, creationism, bipedalism, and buggering a bald transsexual more »
2013-04-08 | Science without Darwin. Had the naturalist perished on the HMS Beagle, might evolutionary ideas have been accepted more quickly? more »
2017-07-18 | Darwin and women. Publicly dismissive of the female intellect, in private he was completely dependent on it more »
2014-08-25 | Long before Cuvier, Darwin, and Mendel, Aristotle was deciphering the mysteries of the cuttlefish's abdominal tract, the ambiguities of hyena genitals more »
2011-01-01 | No doubting Charles Darwin was the greatest biologist of the 19th century. A shame, however, that his star has obscured another bright mind of the time: Richard Owen more »
2010-01-01 | 'It''s the holiday season again, and time for cheerful women and their men to go out shopping together. Usually a big mistake, and Darwin tells us why' more »
2016-08-02 | A philosophy of education. Influenced by Hegel and Darwin, John Dewey launched a revolution that overthrew the methods of the day. Hannah Arendt was not pleased more »
2010-01-01 | If you want to pick holes in evolution, you need to grasp what Darwinian science tries to achieve. A new book on Darwin fails to do this more »
2013-06-12 | Darwin referred to humor as ?a tickling of the mind.' But seriously: What actually happens in our brain when we laugh? more »
2016-04-01 | Darwin did not take metaphors lightly. He honed them and defended them. That was the case with "natural selection," which wasn't his first choice for evolution more »
2015-12-16 | Origins of the beard. Darwin sported whiskers but struggled to explain facial hair. Is it a triumph of nurture over nature, culture over primitive instinct? more »
2013-01-14 | Maybe Darwin was wrong, says Thomas Nagel, and biology is teleology: The universe is aimed at certain goals as it unfolds through time more »
2013-07-18 | Darwin called it ?an odd state of mind,' a puzzle of evolutionary theory. Shyness alienates, yes, but it also binds us together more »
2010-01-01 | 'You can''t explain natural selection by appeals to domestication. There is no mind in Darwin''s nature to conduct a breeding program. Oh, yeah?' more »
2010-01-01 | Charles Darwin, "the man who made the modern world," was conventional in his fibre, reticent and generous, one who insisted that his own mental abilities were only middling more »
2015-02-23 | Darwin didn't argue with politicians. But politicians tangle with him. Indeed, evolution is a litmus test: Do you stand with reason even if it costs votes? more »
2017-01-03 | If Kepler, Darwin, and Einstein had not come along, would their theories have been discovered by others? Were they indispensable? An alternative history of great ideas more »
2017-01-18 | From Emerson and Carlyle to Lamarck and Darwin, thinkers have debated agency. But where does debating the free will of squirrels, rocks, and robots get us? more »
2010-01-01 | Compassion and benevolence, as Charles Darwin knew, are rooted in our evolved psychology, ready to be cultivated for the greater good more »
2011-01-01 | 'Diagnosing Darwin. The naturalist''s chronic vomiting has been attributed to any of 40 diseases. Now there''s a new diagnosis' more »
2018-03-15 | Darwin had eczema, so he grew a beard; Dickens hid his receding chin. Then there was the matter of George Eliot’s hands more »
2014-04-09 | Can an octopus think? How about an earthworm, or a sea snail? Darwin, Freud, Kandel, and the strange world of lower-organism cognition more »
2012-08-16 | Can evolution explain the instinct to make and appreciate art? No, thought Darwin. Yes, argued Denis Dutton. Adam Kirsch sorts it out more »
2014-03-08 | Darwin in Arabia. On the Origin of Species was published in 1859, but appeared in Arabic in 1918. One problem: no word in Arabic for 'species? more »
2015-03-28 | Alfred Russel Wallace and his notebook traveled some 14,000 miles, accumulating evidence of natural selection. Does Darwin get too much credit? more »
2010-01-01 | 'Historians, please note. If ever there existed a scientific theory that is fundamentally historical, that explains change over time, it is Darwin''s evolution by natural selection' more »
2017-03-10 | Tennyson despaired at the existence of fossils; Darwin mocked such thinking as “catastrophist.” Our notion of extinction rests on the relationship between the arts and sciences more »
2010-01-01 | Just as Chomsky blew B.F. Skinner out of the water with his innatism in the 1950s, so Jerry Fodor wants to do the same to Charles Darwin. The signs so far more »
2017-09-06 | There is a long and sordid tradition of trying to diminish Darwin by insisting that his ideas are not original. A.N. Wilson is no more successful than his predecessors more »
2018-01-02 | Jerry Coyne, an evolutionary biologist, has read hundreds of books about Darwin and his work. Many are not good, but A.N. Wilson's is by far the worst more »
2017-04-06 | Darwin’s work set off an intellectual earthquake in America. It transformed Thoreau from a poet into a geologist, altered abolitionism, and spurred a generation of literary naturalists more »
2017-09-05 | Jane Carlyle was the greatest letter writer of her time. A correspondent of Mill, Darwin, Forster, she is remembered as a genius. But a genius of what? more »
2018-08-16 | In 1837, Darwin sketched a tree of life: a common ancestor at the trunk, ever-dividing branches leading to new species. Turns out those branches aren't as separate as we thought more »
2016-09-02 | Tom Wolfe has long been deft at skewering the pompous, the status-seeking, the class-conscious. His new target: Darwin. Wolfe comes armed not with evidence, but with sarcasm more »
2017-01-31 | What Victorians looked like. Darwin had a beard and eczema, Tennyson a strange set of false teeth, George Eliot a right hand much larger than her left more »
2017-04-05 | In some cultures, shyness is a virtue, a sign of refinement. But it befuddled Darwin, who didn't see any benefit to our species more »
2017-12-15 | “Darwin was wrong,” says A.N. Wilson, whose book is quite often wrong, too. Indeed, it's an object lesson in how not to write the history of anything more »
2018-01-29 | Cuttlefish were “hyacinth red and chestnut brown,” sea slugs “primrose yellow,” soft coral “light auricular purple”: Darwin, one admirer noted, was “a first-rate landscape painter with the pen” more »
2018-11-01 | Tales from a publishing family. Jane Austen was upset with a printing delay. And Charles Darwin was not amenable to making On the Origin of Species solely about pigeons more »
2017-04-01 | Darwin worked a few hours a day. Trollope wrote only between 5 to 8 a.m. — and published 47 novels. They weren't accomplished despite their leisurely schedules; they were accomplished because of them more »
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