Our Intellectual Desert
“Most thought-provoking for our thought-provoking times is that we are still not thinking.” - Martin Heidegger Intellectually, and not only, we now live in a desert.…
“Most thought-provoking for our thought-provoking times is that we are still not thinking.” - Martin Heidegger Intellectually, and not only, we now live in a desert.…
“No one that ever lived ever thought so crooked as we.” - Samuel Beckett, Endgame Over the past few decades, which is accelerating year by year,…
Computers are getting better all the time, right! Well, nooo. Not really. At least, not for me, and in more ways than one. Before going further, two…
One of the most, if not the most, pernicious aspects of modern mechanisation, standardisation and centralisation is the loss of the personal dimension of human life, or…
The idea that the modern world, in particular modern knowledge and science, represents a victory of ancient Gnostic views, branded as heresies in the Christian era, is…
Liminality, Disease and Politics May 20-21, 2021 online conference of the journal International Political Anthropology Conference organising committee: Agnes Horvath, Marius Ion Bentza, Paul O’Connor and…
Call for papers for the International Political Anthropology online conference ‘Liminality, disease and politics’, 20-21 May 2021 Keynote Speaker Arpad Szakolczai, Professor Emeritus, UCC, Ireland Conference Description The conference…
A Preliminary Remark The background story to this article is not so different from that of my article published on November 1, 2020 in VoegelinView, not told…
Hubris must be put out, more than fire -Heraclitus Introduction This paper addresses an issue of considerable contemporary concern, which furthermore seemed all but unthinkable just…
In the previous articles I repeatedly asserted that we ‘basically’ live inside a police state, as the police is the most basic institution of the modern state,…
1. Corruption Economic theory, economics and the economy are not only based on generalized, even infinite, limitless exchange, but also on corruption, in the etymological sense of…
One of the side effects of the current pandemic is the incredibly clean air we all are having everywhere. I almost wrote ‘absurdly’ clean air, though of…
It is too early now to draw the balance of the current pandemic madness, but certainly not too early to reflect on what is going on, and…
A Friendship That Lasted a Lifetime: The Correspondence Between Alfred Schütz and Eric Voegelin. Gerhard Wagner and Gilbert Weiss, eds, and William Petropulos, trans. Columbia, MO: University…