The Basic Problems of Phenomenology (1927) The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics (1929/30) The Age of the World Picture (1938) Letter on ‘Humanism’ (1947) The Question Concerning Technology (1954) As it…
Heidegger’s interpretation of death in Being and Time not as nullity but as the “absolute impossibility” that possibilizes one’s being involves a rethinking of the very category of possibility, one…
Philosophy, for Kant, like Hegel, gives and makes intelligible history’s meaning. Whatever human deeds there are under the sun, philosophy has the power of organizing them in such a way as…
What is death? Do we know what death is? What do we think when we think of death? What kind of thinking is the thinking of death? Death is the…
Over US$2 trillion of foreign aid has flowed through poor countries over the past fifty years. Of this amount Africa is the biggest recipient, receiving more per capita in foreign…
Time, for Aristotle, is fundamentally linked to change and movement. Where there is alteration or movement, there is time, for everything that comes to be and ceases to be are…
Heidegger begins his “Letter on Humanism” by noting that our notion of action is too often narrowly thought in terms of cause and effect. Consequently, the human being is conceived…
Plato’s Gorgias and Phaedrus begin with a scene of seduction. They introduce, upon the arrival of Socrates, subjects of the seduced and the seducer. If these two dialogues contain in…
In “Analysis Terminable and Interminable,” a paper published almost four decades after his Interpretation of Dreams (1900), Freud reflects on the development of psychoanalysis as a science and method, and…
(Below is the introduction to the lecture, “Infrastructural Futures,” which I delivered at the University of the Philippines on July 7, 2010. My thanks to Professor Rolando Tolentino for the…
To look at world history philosophically means to reveal it as a rational universal process. This is the basic core of Hegel’s philosophy of history—the Hegelian position on world history.…
“Technology” in practices of development is often understood in terms of a means-end schema toward modernization. More, technology becomes the conceptual frame to signify progress and modernity. Indeed, technological products…
Space rules developmentalist thinking. Analyses of economic development and underdevelopment in the social sciences presuppose the category of space. In fact, they seem to invariably take the rule and measurement…
What sort of difference is primitivity? To think this question of primitive difference already involves an unhinging of the “here” and “now” of one’s relation to a knowledge-claim of what…
What is potentiality? Potentiality is conventionally understood as that which is opposed to actuality. This is an Aristotelian inheritance. By definition, what is potential [dynamis δυναμις] is something that is…
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