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What is Philosophy of Mind? - Kim Jaegwon
Philosophy of mind, like any other field of inquiry, is defined by a group of problems. As we expect, the problems that constitute this f...
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The Society Kim Il Sung Built and How He Did It - Andrei Lankov
One cannot understand modern North Korea without having a look at its past. North Korea never experienced “reform,” that is, a government...
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From Victorious Democracy to Criminal Democracy - Jacques Ranciere
‘Democracy Stirs In The Middle East’: with this title a magazine that carries the flame of economic neoliberalism celebrated some months a...
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On the Concept of the Archetype - Carl Gustav Jung
The concept of the Great Mother belongs to the field of comparative religion and embraces widely varying types of mother-goddess. The co...
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Genital pain vs. Genital pleasure: Why the one and not the other? - James W. Prescott
Male circumcision is not primarily a medical issue but rather has its roots in deeply held religious beliefs and social customs t...
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Patriotism: A Menace To Liberty - Emma Goldman
What is patriotism? Is it love of one's birthplace, the place of childhood's recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations? I...
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The Psychology Of Political Violence - Emma Goldman
To analyze the psychology of political violence is not only extremely difficult, but also very dangerous. If such acts are treated with...
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Contradiction and Overdetermination - Louis Althusser
For Marx. Part III: Notes for an Investigation. Trans. Ben Brewster. New York: Penguin, 1962. In an article devoted to the Young...
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Messages in a Bottle - Theodor Adorno
I Key people .—The self-important type who only thinks himself something when confirmed by the role he plays in collectives which are...
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Happiness and Torture in the Atonal World - Slavoj Žižek
Human, all too human In contrast to the simplistic opposition of good guys and bad guys, spy-thrillers with artistic pretensions d...
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Return to Philology - Paul de Man
The quarrelsome tone that hangs over the debates on the teaching of literature can often be traced back to the advent of contemporary l...
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Art, Society, Aesthetics - Theodor Adorno
It is self-evident that nothing concerning art is self-evident anymore, not its inner life, not its relation to the world, not even i...
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The Limits of the Semiotic Approach to Psychoanalysis - Slavoj Žižek
1. Le point de capiton Lacan’s best-known proposition is surely the famous ‘the unconscious is structured like a language’, which...
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Logic and Existence a la Jean Hyppolite - Gilles Deleuze
Jean Hyppolite's earlier Genesis and Structure of Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit' was a commentary on Hegel, preservi...
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Theories of the Postmodern - Fredric Jameson
The problem of Postmodernism -how its fundamental characteristics are to be described, whether it even exists in the first place, whethe...
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The Ethics of Boredom: What is an I? - Lars Svendsen
I am the sum of all transgressions of myself, i.e., of all that I do. What I do is not exterior to who I am; rather, it can be said to ...
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Democracy and the Media - Noam Chomsky
Under the heading “Brazilian bishops support plan to democratize media,” a church-based South American journal describes a proposal bei...
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The Doctrine of Extermination - Bertrand Russell
An impartial examination of the conditions of international conduct today allows no other conclusion but that the standards of behavior...
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The Future of Philosophy - Moritz Schlick
Moritz Schlick (1882-1936) was a leading Logical Positivist philosopher and one of the founders of the Vienna Circle, a group of philos...
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Towards a Lacanian political theory: Politics v. the political - Yannis Stavrakakis
Naturally, what we said about reality in general is also applicable to political reality. But what is this political reality for which ...
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