The documentary filmmaker has become America's most surprising and provocative public intellectual
Jürgen Habermas has had enough. The philosopher is doing all he can these days to call attention to what he sees as the demise of the European ideal. He hopes he can help save it -- from inept politicians and the dark forces of the market.
Sex, love, and loneliness on the Internet.
The curious process by which notions of sin and guilt have become both illusory and omnipresent.
A new book argues that human beings are born to lie: that we cannot live without deceit. Is this true—and does it matter?
In this essay, the author examines a brief account by the historian Jacques Le Goff of Roland Barthes's years as an administrator in the Sixth Section of the École Pratique des Hautes Études (which eventually became the EHESS). This account provides an opportunity for a more sustained reflection on writing, paperwork, and the problem of the materiality of communication. The author argues that some recent scholarship in book history, media studies, and related fields has neglected the unconscious dimensions of communication.
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