"We think of beauty as being most worthy of reverence. But what is most worthy of reverence lights up only where the m…"

"The difficult truth to admit is that Heidegger is "great" not in spite of, but because of his Nazi engagement, that t…"

"Existentialism is a "movement" which like all such movements has a flabby periphery and a hard center. That center is…"

"Two philosophers in particular have had an inordinate influence over the way contemporary literary theorists think. N…"

"Reading Heidegger against the grain, one discovers a thinker who was, at some points, strangely close to communism."

"The universe of modern science, in its very 'meaninglessness', involves the gesture of 'traversing the fantasy', of a…"

"Was Heidegger's support for Nazism primarily a philosophical affair — indeed, a philosophical mistake — that could be…"

"Existentialism is a school of philosophic thought. The name is not like Platonism, Epicureanism, and Thomism. Existen…"

"Among the many things that make Heidegger's thought so appealing to so many contemporaries is his accepting the premi…"

"In Nietzsche’s view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the …"