Harry S. Broudy (born July 27, 1905, Filipowa, Poland—died June 24, 1998, Urbana, Illinois, U.S.) was a Polish-born American educational philosopher, best known as a spokesman for the classical realist viewpoint. Broudy immigrated to the United States from Poland as a small boy. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University (B.A., 1929), and […]
Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.) is an American academic whose theories of the performative nature of gender and sex have been influential within Francocentric philosophy, cultural theory, queer theory, and some schools of philosophical feminism from the late 20th century. Butler’s father was a dentist and their mother an advocate for
Otto Weininger (born April 3, 1880, Vienna—died Oct. 4, 1903, Vienna) was an Austrian philosopher whose single work, Geschlecht und Charakter (1903; Sex and Character), served as a sourcebook for anti-Semitic propagandists. The son of a prosperous Jewish artisan, Weininger became a Christian the day he received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Vienna
Eugen Dühring (born Jan. 12, 1833, Berlin, Prussia [Germany]—died Sept. 21, 1921, Nowawes, Ger.) was a philosopher, political economist, prolific writer, and a leading German adherent of positivism, the philosophical view that positive knowledge is gained through observation of natural phenomena. Dühring practiced law from 1856 to 1859 and lectured on philosophy at the University
Diogenes Of Apollonia (flourished 5th century bc) was a Greek philosopher remembered for his cosmology and for his efforts to synthesize ancient views and new discoveries. It is uncertain whether Diogenes’ birthplace, from which his name is derived, was the Apollonia of Crete or that of Phrygia (in modern Turkey). He lived most of his
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Diodorus Cronus (born 4th century bc) was a philosopher of the Megarian school, remembered for his innovations in logic. His surname Cronus, of uncertain meaning, was applied both to him and to his teacher, the philosopher Apollonius of Cyrene. Through Apollonius he is linked with Eubulides of Miletus, a 4th-century Greek thinker; together the three
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (born August 27, 1770, Stuttgart, Württemberg [Germany]—died November 14, 1831, Berlin) was a German philosopher who developed a dialectical scheme that emphasized the progress of history and of ideas from thesis to antithesis and thence to a synthesis. Hegel was the last of the great philosophical system builders of modern times.
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Written by Uruguayan journalist Raúl Zibechi, Territórios em rebeldia was published in Brazil in 2022 and features a collection of articles on the struggles led by Latin American communities that resist the violent onslaught of capital in the twenty-first century and seek to build new worlds. The articles were written at different times and address
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Selected Political Writings of Ghassan Kanafani is a long overdue edition in English, offering a small glimpse into the non-fiction writings Kanafani produced in his lifetime, a life tragically cut short by a targeted Israeli assassination. While Kanafani’s novels have been translated into English, his non-fiction works are only recently receiving attention in the Anglophone
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With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, the projected horizon of Marx’s philosophy of history, and the utopian belief that life might be lived otherwise, has been put on trial on a global scale. Inherited in part from the work of such sceptics as Hayek and Popper, and seemingly demonstrated in the previous
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