Philosophy Ripped From The Headlines! is delivered online in (occasionally discontinuous) weekly installments, month by month. Its aim is to inspire critical, reflective, synoptic thinking and discussion about contemporary issues–in short, public philosophizing in the broadest possible, everyday sense. Every installment contains (1) excerpts from one or more articles, or one or more complete articles, … [continue reading]
Monthly Archives: February 2019
Hazel Barnes’s “Self-Encounter: A Study in Existentialism,” Episode 3: To Leap Or Not To Leap.
I. Introduction by Z Hazel Barnes was an American philosopher, the first translator of Sartre’s L’être et le néant, aka Being and Nothingness, into English, and the author of seven original books in Existentialist philosophy, including The Literature of Possibility: A Study in Humanistic Existentialism (1959) and An Existentialist Ethics (1967). In The Literature of … [continue reading]
Hazel Barnes’s “Self-Encounter: A Study in Existentialism,” Episode 2: The Far Side of Despair.
I. Introduction by Z Hazel Barnes was an American philosopher, the first translator of Sartre’s L’être et le néant, aka Being and Nothingness, into English, and the author of seven original books in Existentialist philosophy, including The Literature of Possibility: A Study in Humanistic Existentialism (1959) and An Existentialist Ethics (1967). In The Literature of … [continue reading]
THINKING FOR A LIVING: A PHILOSOPHER’S NOTEBOOK, May 2018 – January 2019, Omnibus Edition.
The Omnibus Edition contains the first nineteen installments of THINKING FOR A LIVING, revised and collected into a single volume, as a downloadable .pdf for universal free sharing– PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS #19: The incoherence and impossibility of personal immortality. #18: A new argument against capital punishment. #17: Fear, denial, and loathing in the philosophy of mind. … [continue reading]