Abstract: This article examines contemporary Ukrainian war literature as a site where the experience of war reveals a fundamental breakdown of meaning, knowledge, and selfhood. Analyzing works by Artur Dron, Artem Chapeye, Artem Chekh, and Oleksandr Mykhed, it argues that war produces an irreducible gap between mediated knowledge and lived experience, akin to the philosophical…
Abstract: The essay is a reflection on Isabella Hammad’s book, Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative (2024). The essay’s approach is to follow the four themes that reflect the title and the subtitle of the book and to draw out what is unsaid from what is said by Hammad. The unsaid reflects my conceptual and historical…
Preview: / Richard Shusterman interviewed by Crispin Sartwell / In the context of contemporary philosophy, Richard Shusterman occupies a singular position. As one of the most influential figures revitalizing and extending the pragmatist tradition into new domains of aesthetic, somatic, and intercultural inquiry, his work has not only reinvigorated longstanding concerns with embodiment, perception,…
Preview: / Sue Spaid interviewed by Mateusz Salwa / MS: Your recent book (Making Values Explicit. On How We Are Moved to Do, Act, Care, and Change, Ethics International Press Ltd: Bradford 2025) is mainly devoted to values. Interestingly, you claim that the very notion of “values” is undervalued in philosophy as it is broad and a bit…
Abstract: Parallel observations in the works of Luciano Floridi, exploring philosophy in the digital age, and David Ulansey, studying philosophical concepts in Hellenistic cults, reveal a similarity of human experience in the face of philosophical transition. The similarities discussed by both scholars who describe the impact of ontological changes yields useful insights into individual and communal…
Preview: /Review: Paul Benjamin Cherlin, John Dewey’s Metaphysical Theory (New York, New York, Palgrave McMillian, 2023), 170 pages./ Philosophy has traditionally been defined as the love of wisdom. Understanding the love of wisdom is crucial to Paul Cherlin’s book John Dewey’s Metaphysical Theory. Cherlin’s short but broad-ranging study offers a view of the nature…
Preview: / Ralph D. Ellis interviewed by Samuel Maruszewski / Ralph D. Ellis, one of the strongest advocates of the enactivist approach to consciousness and cognitive theory, began his academic career as a phenomenologist, earning the Ph.D. at Duquesne University under Andre Schuwer, John Sallis and Amedeo Giorgi, and has taught at Clark Atlanta University since…
Abstract: To approach the poem-fragments of Empedocles as a discourse emerging from the drama of living, is to allow their performatively theorized snapshots to return from mere stills to moving images of practice in modulated stages of training. This study will propose two ways of approach: aesthetically, and as a transformative spiritual exercise (askēsis). The aesthetic way employs four…
Preview: In July 2023 a group of philosophers gathered in Lisbon to address the boundaries, crossroads, and deadlocks in philosophy as a way of life (PWL). This short paper, based on my Lisbon talk, addresses all three topics. First, I want to highlight the boundary separating the university from everyday life. I offer a distinction between philosophers as academic professionals – university-based scholars –…
Preview: /Review: Graham Harman and Christopher Witmore, Objects Untimely: Object-Oriented Ontology and Archaeology, (Cambridge and Hoboken: Polity Press, 2023), 240 pages./ This is a very unusual book and it is so in several different respects. Firstly, it is co-authored and that already makes it a rare bird in contemporary philosophical output. Secondly, the author…