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Continentals
Fun With Deleuze & Guattari
D.E. Tarkington offers some cool conceptual tricks to impress your friends at parties.
Continentals
Hustle Culture & the Illusion of Freedom
Daneyal Afaqui critiques modern work culture, with input from Theodor Adorno.
Simone Weil & Animal Suffering
Michela Dianetti & Chiara Li Mandri say non-human beings don’t need to be persons for us to care about them. Simone Weil offers another way.
Why Classical Liberals Should Embrace Foucault
Muzainy Shahiefisally argues that Foucault really is on the side of freedom.
The Strength of Quiet Rebellion
T.S. Carney on Ernst Jünger and internal sovereignty.
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Regulars
Editorial: Mental Continental
by Rick Lewis
News: August/September 2026
Jobs bonanza as AI companies recruit philosophers • Researchers learn to ‘unwrap’ charred philosophy scrolls from Herculaneum — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
Articles
What is Analytic Philosophy?
Alexander Jeuk analyses philosophical analysis with a philosophical eye.
Boredom
Cheryl Fok searches for the source, and its relief.
What is Human Experience?: Psychology vs Philosophy
Ayten Nevzat watches philosophy give birth to a science.
Julian the Apostate (331-363)
Eli Sclar reports on a weaponizer of tolerance.
Between Missiles & Morality
AmirAli Maleki considers Hart, al-Farabi, and the Puzzled Man in wartime.
Ulrich Metschl
Ulrich Metschl is an associate professor at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Thiago Pinho talks with him about philosophical collaborations.
Columns
Philosophy Shorts: Philosophical Power Couples
by Matt Qvortrup
Philosophical Haiku: Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)
by Terence Green
The Art of Living: Cicero & the Value of Skepticism
Massimo Pigliucci is not skeptical about skepticism itself.
Tallis in Wonderland: Martin Heidegger & the Evaporation of Freedom
Raymond Tallis watches freedom disappear in a puff of Heideggerian smoke.
Reviews
The Diversity of Morals by Steven Lukes
Philip Badger considers Steven Lukes’ views about the diversity of morality.
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli
Peter Benson marvels at Carlo Rovelli’s relational quantum theory.
Tractatus Theologico-Politicus by Baruch Spinoza
Hilarius Bogbinder looks at the book that got Baruch Spinoza barred from his synagogue.
Wuthering Heights
Michael Au-Mullaney on K.E. Løgstrup on love.
Fiction
The Simulacrum Conceals, or Time Beguiles?
by Shivangi Mishra
