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

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

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

"Ignoring not only the sciences but the whole of the Western tradition since Plato caused Heidegger to remain too caug…"

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

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

"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 …"