2025-01Discussion Papers, Comments, Book Reviews
Paul Cherlin, John Dewey, and the Love of Wisdom

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…

2024-04Discussion Papers, Comments, Book Reviews
An Interview Regarding Enactivism

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…

2024-04Discussion Papers, Comments, Book Reviews
Approaching Empedocles through PWL practices

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…

2024-03Discussion Papers, Comments, Book Reviews
Philosophers: Academic Professionals or Wisdom-Loving Sages?

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 –…

2024-02Discussion Papers, Comments, Book Reviews
Not Your Everyday Objects

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…

2024-01Discussion Papers, Comments, Book Reviews
Arendt, Heidegger, Eichmann, and Thinking after the Black Notebooks

Preview: /Review: Emmanuel Faye, Arendt et Heidegger: Extermination nazie et destruction de la pensée, (Albin Michel, 2016), 560 pages./ The appearance of Martin Heidegger’s Black Notebooks (1932-38) in 2014 has posed profound questions to philosophers and political theorists. For a long time, in ways that the Black Notebooks have definitively undermined, Heidegger’s National Socialism was widely considered as limited…

2023-04Discussion Papers, Comments, Book Reviews
Post-Cultural Studies: A Brief Introduction

Preview: This is a relatively brief reflection on where we are with our “culture” in the present, a time when Politics has done a great deal of damage to our communicative purposes and hopes. Our culture has become a “post-culture,” we believe, in a sense to be defined here. It is hard enough to say what one means by “culture,” so the challenge of describing…

2023-04Discussion Papers, Comments, Book Reviews
Prayer as a Form of Life, Life as a Form of Prayer

Preview: / Zofia Rosińska interviewed by Mikołaj Sławkowski-Rode / MSR: Your book Po śladach. Doświadczenie modlitewne w ujęciu filozofii kultury [After the Traces. The Experience of Prayer in the Perspective of Philosophy of Culture] has an unusual format for an academic work. Apart from an overview and discussion of various conceptions and examples of…

2023-03Discussion Papers, Comments, Book Reviews
All Art is Ecological

Preview: /Review: Timothy Morton, All Art is Ecological, (London: Penguin Books, 2021), 105 pages./ The book All Art is Ecological provides a provocative and entertaining, but no less concise and instructive study into the nature of the relationship between art and ecological awareness – from the perspective of one of the leading…

2023-03Discussion Papers, Comments, Book Reviews
Aesthetic Judgment, Embodied Rationality, and the Truth of Appearances: An Introduction to Roger Scruton’s Philosophical Anthropology

Abstract: This paper offers an interpretation of and introduction to the philosophical anthropology of Roger Scruton through an examination of the aesthetic dimension of human rationality. We argue that attending to our aesthetic experience as individuated subjects capable of intersubjective communion offers a helpful corrective to the deracinated and disembodied view of human rationality prevalent in much…