Tag: Continental Philosophy

August 12, 2015

To Each Philosopher, Her or His Plant

Michael Marder’s “intention behind The “Philosopher’s Plant” was to create a herbarium of ideas, collecting theories of the most important Western thinkers, from Greek Antiquity to our days, as though they were botanical specimens preserved on the pages of [a] book.”

June 23, 2014

Analytic Philosophy's Fire Alarm, by Santiago Zabala

Read a post by Santiago Zabala, coauthor of HERMENEUTIC COMMUNISM, on Continental and analytic philosophy.

March 1, 2013

The Life and Works of Alain Badiou

Check out our Pinterest board honoring the career of Alain Badiou.

March 1, 2013

Alain Badiou translates "What is a Philosopher?" from Plato's Republic

Read an excerpt from Alain Badiou’s creative new translation of Plato’s Republic.

February 28, 2013

Ward Blanton: Paula Versus the New Philosophers, or, Incident in Beijing

Read an essay by Professor Ward Blanton on the importance of Badiou’s The Incident at Antioch to the study of St. Paul.

February 27, 2013

Susan Spitzer: Translating Alain Badiou's The Incident at Antioch and Plato's Republic

Susan Spitzer discusses the experience of translating two very different works by Alain Badiou.

February 26, 2013

Kenneth Reinhard: Badiou's Sublime Translation of the Republic

Read Kenneth Reinhard’s introduction to Alain Badiou’s “hypertranslation” of Plato’s Republic.

February 26, 2013

Kenneth Reinhard explains Alain Badiou's "political theater"

Read an excerpt from Kenneth Reinhard’s introduction to Alain Badiou’s play, The Incident at Antioch.

February 7, 2013

An Interview with Clayton Crockett, Author of Deleuze Beyond Badiou

Read an interview with Clayton Crockett, author of Deleuze Beyond Badiou.

June 14, 2012

Santiago Zabala remembers Richard Rorty

Santiago Zabala looks back at the intellectual legacy of Richard Rorty, one of the most important philosophical figures of the last half century.

June 7, 2012

Interview with Matthew Calarco, author of Zoographies

Continuing our week-long focus on debates within animal studies, we wanted to spotlight a recent interview with Matthew Calarco, author of Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida, that was posted on On Human-Nonhuman Relations. Calarco’s work,...

April 11, 2012

Francois Noudelmann on Tour

Next week, François Noudelmann, author of The Philosopher’s Touch: Sartre, Nietzsche, and Barthes at the Piano, will be in various cities to discuss his book: Monday, April 16 Lycée Français de Los Angeles Monday, April 16, 4:30 PM UCLA Tuesday,...