Man imagines himself free from fear when there is no longer anything unknown. — Adorno and Horkheimer What is modernity? Whether conceived as a category of historical periodization, an aesthetic…
W.W. Rostow, The Stages of Economic Growth (1960) Andre Gunder Frank, “The Development of Underdevelopment” (1966) In the late 1950s when W.W. Rostow set out to build an economic theory of modern…
Marx and Engels, The German Ideology Marx and Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party Arendt, The Concept of History Koselleck, Futures Past A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism. Certainly, when Marx and Engels…
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 after him, is that which gives and makes intelligible history’s meaning. Whatever human deeds there are under the sun, philosophy has the power of organizing them in…
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…
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