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(Matthes and Seitz Berlin 2023) [a]     I.   Byung-Chul Han really likes Walter Benjamin - not that there's anything wrong with that.  ...

Joe Strummer, lead singer of the Clash, looking pensive and posing a question  that has intrigued punks, philosophers and entomologists alik...

Byung-Chul Han: author of Non-things , trans. Daniel Steuer (Polity Press, 2022). Page references given in the post refer to this work.     ...

  Sartre and the Lobsters by Dan Meth tumblr.com     I.    Usually, when one thinks of the lobster and its role within the cultural imagin...

    I.    We all know Heidegger's magnificent response to Sartre's post-War declaration that l'existentialisme est un humanisme ...

Juliette Gréco by Erwin Blumenfeld (1951)     Juliette Gréco - the face (and voice) of chic postwar Paris and muse to numerous Left-Bank poe...

Photo of Albert Camus by Henri Cartier-Bresson (1944):  with his upturned collar, cigarette, and slicked back hair,  Camus embodied ...

Jastrow's ambiguous figure of the duck-rabbit made famous by  Wittgenstein in his Philosophical Investigations (1953), II, §...

I've never been a great fan of Jean-Paul Sartre and fully endorse Heidegger's repudiation of the Frenchman's attempt to c...

Sartre declared that anyone who isn't a communist is a filthy swine.  I don't think that's true. However, it's un...