Non-standard anti-capitalist philosophy publication.
Martin Heidegger
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Beyond Life and Death: Jean-Luc Nancy’s Ontology of Finitude
In the essay “Existence and Death,” Alain Badiou presents a critique of what he calls “ante-predicative” theories of death. These theories secretly elevate death into a constitutive power lying beneath or beyond determinate beings. Whether in the guise of Bergsonian life, Heideggerian finitude, Sartrean nothingness, or Deleuzian becoming, death ceases to be a simple limit…
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From the Jewish Question to the Palestine Question
Firstly, what is the Jewish Question? In its simplest form, the question goes along the lines of: “What are we to do with the Jews?” Secondly, who asks the Jewish Question? Whom does it target? Historically speaking, the “we” that requires the Jews as the object of “our” question is the modern, nominally secular, European…
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Principle of Insufficient Reason
Nothing happens without a reason. This is Leibniz’s principle of sufficient reason (PSR). According to this principle, every event in the universe is metaphysically bound to every other by some rational tie, generally understood as a cause. Causality acts as the unifying force of the universe. Now, “cause” means, in its broadest sense, reason and…
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