Tag: "political philosophy"

Mill Meets Gandhi

Utilitarian philosopher John Stuart Mill worked for the British East India Company for 35 years. Long after Mill’s death, Gandhi led India to independence. Eugene Alper imagines a meeting of these two great political thinkers.
[Issue 133: August/September 2019: Fiction]

Question Marx

by Grant Bartley
[Issue 131: April/May 2019: Editorial]

Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

Martin Jenkins traces the life of a self-made woman.
[Issue 130: February/March 2019: Brief Lives]

Can Art Fight Fascism?

Justin Kaushall considers Adorno’s argument that radical art radically changes consciousness.
[Issue 129: December 2018 / January 2019: Arts & Letters]

Hegel on History

Lawrence Evans rationally interprets Hegel’s rational interpretation of history.
[Issue 129: December 2018 / January 2019: Articles]

The Trouble with Hegel

Chris Christensen thinks Hegel shouldn’t have stopped where he did.
[Issue 129: December 2018 / January 2019: Articles]

A Brief Explanation of Anarchism

Mary Shelley’s father, political philosopher William Godwin, was the first modern exponent of anarchism. In his honour, Nick Gutierrez states the stateless ideal.
[Issue 128: October/November 2018: Articles]

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)

Sandrine Bergès considers the too short wanderings of a political philosopher.
[Issue 128: October/November 2018: Brief Lives]

A Radical Cure: Hannah Arendt & Simone Weil on the Need for Roots

Scott Remer thinks we arendt happy without a community and considers the complete reconstruction of the modern world to be well worth weil.
[Issue 127: August/September 2018: Continental Thoughts]

Thomas Hill Green (1836-1882)

by Terence Green
[Issue 126: June/July 2018: Philosophical Haiku]

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