How did Heidegger, married and 35, explain his affair with 18-year old Hannah Arendt? “The demonic has seized me”

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For decades, Anglophilia steadily fed the imaginations of “respectable” American conservatives. No longer

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Psychiatry and anti-psychiatry have quietly borrowed each other's language for decades, each remaking itself in the image of the other

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Duisburg-Essen University

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Deadline extension: Research position on Metaphysical Sentimentalism and Emotion Theory
The Philosophy Department at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, invites applications for a postdoctoral position (‘wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin’, comparable to an assistant professorship, 100% TVL).

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Europe

Name of institution: 

Duisburg-Essen University

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Essen

Country: 

Germany

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Deadline extension: Research position on Conceptual Sentimentalism and Emotion Theory
The Philosophy Department at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, invites applications for a postdoctoral position (‘wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin’, comparable to an assistant professorship, 100% TVL).

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In 1914, scholars classified every known instrument by sound. One missing category has now been filled: instruments that don't exist

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AI poses a moral hazard, but it may also render unintelligible cultural concepts like merit, authenticity, expertise, and deliberation

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“We have inherited the surfaces of decadence — luxury, excess, artifice, bodily display — but have surrendered the fin de siècle’s commitment to pleasure”

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What made the late-80s culture wars distinct wasn't ideology alone, but a landscape where art itself still mattered. Paul Elie explains

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An enfeebled grip, a depressingly slow gait, and the pitying kindness of others — Theodore Dalrymple searches for the consolations of age

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