75 TEASER | Power, Reason, and Justification:...

In this episode we discuss the work of French philosopher Alain Badiou. Ever since the 1970s, Badiou’s philosophy has been characterized by an untimely systematicity and an ambitious effort to bring together politics, art, science, and love in a unique synthesis under the aegis o ...  Show more

In this episode, we continue our series on modernity with a discussion of modernity, colonialism, and the future of both. We take up the claim that modernity is a justifying myth for European colonialism and wonder why we are all so enraptured by it. Are the Europeans as modern a ...  Show more

What is our relation to reality? Are some features of our experience conditions of our having any experience at all? In this reading from his book Philosophy: The Classics Nigel Warburton attempts to summarise Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, a notoriously difficult yet i ...  Show more

In this episode, I present Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of the Will to Power. *The Geneaology of Morals was released AFTER Beyond Good & Evil* If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilos ...  Show more

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I'm joined by Alex once again to take a stab at Foucault's "The Order of Things." In these two parts, we try to locate the significance of Foucault's work today with a specific emphasis on his theory of the epi ...  Show more

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I'm joined by Alex once again to take a stab at Foucault's "The Order of Things." In these two parts, we try to locate the significance of Foucault's work today with a specific emphasis on his theory of the epis ...  Show more