3 years ago
Philosophy and Technique: Reflecting Seven Years after Leaving Engineering
Philosophers tend to think that what they are doing is not mere technique. For a technique, according to philosophers, can be practiced mindlessly, meaning that technicians do not need to inquire into …
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5 years ago
The Paradox of Academic Philosophy: When Philosophy is Orientalised
There are two main lanes in an adult’s life. The first lane leads to success, career and money; and the other lane, which is more of a roundabout, revolves around …
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5 years ago
Coveting What You Resent: On the Absent Link between Life and Thought
In a recent review of Eric Hobsbawm’s biography written by Richard J. Evans, Susan Pedersen gives a striking summary of the eventful life of the great historian: “For his whole …
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What Do We Do When We Do Philosophy?
Recently, an ‘anonymous academic’ published a piece in The Guardian. He or she seemed to be voicing a common ‘predicament’ that has been recently upsetting the western academia: “I struggle …
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The “World-Jewry” as a Misnomer for “The Globalists”: Heidegger and Anti-Semitism
The publication of Martin Heidegger’s Black Notebooks is followed inevitably by an expanding industry of scholarly publications on Heidegger’s “anti-Semitism”. Exposed to the unabashed and loaded terms that he attributed …
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