Derrida and Rorty as the cleanup crew for Heidegger After Heidegger, two cleanup efforts arrived. On the continental side, it was Derrida. On the Anglo-American side, it was Rorty. Derrida unraveled ...

I believe there is a significant gap between what is associated with the word "philosophy" in Japan and what is associated with the word "philosophy" in Europe. In Japan, when people talk about ...

At a recruiting event for a top-ranked Ph.D. program in English, a current student asked the rest of us, “How many of you actually just want to be writers?” A deafening silence followed; the otherwise ...

At our core, each person stands alone. No matter how connected to others we may feel, our thoughts, choices, and responsibilities ultimately belong to us alone. Others can guide, advise or lend ...

He couldn’t speak. After his second operation for a cleft palate, at the age of five, all Jürgen Habermas could make were muffled sounds that almost nobody understood. Of course, it got better with ...

Last fall, I received an offer I found to be irresistible. Polity Books was preparing two new volumes on Jürgen Habermas, I was told, both of which featured his collaboration, and would I like to ...

Every profession develops its own dialect, a set of ritual utterances by which its initiates recognize one another and reassure themselves that their labor is meaningful. In architecture, this dialect ...

If you’re picturing the goth-leaning, bookish kids who didn’t quite fit in anywhere else, that’s where you’d have found me: at the lunch table where quirky ideas mattered more than football scores.

They thereby distinguished themselves from something called “continental philosophy,” an umbrella term covering everyone from Heidegger to the Marx- and Freud-influenced critical theory of the ...

It’s going on 30 years since we last heard from Dieter. He was the ultra-Berliner who hosted the fictional German TV show Sprockets on Saturday Night Live. The skit laid into artsy-craftsy ...