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Slavoj Žižek on quantum history and the end of the past

Does the past even exist anymore?Quantum mechanics has long unsettled our understanding of matter and measurement. But what if its implications reach further — into history, politics, and the very structure of reality itself? If the present can retroactively reshape the past it e ...  Show more

How they ruined philosophy | Babette Babich, Genia Schönbaumsfeld, and Christoph Schuringa

Did analytic philosophy ruin the entire discipline?For more than a century there has been a divide in Western philosophy between two distinct approaches, often described as analytic and continental philosophy. Analytic philosophy is predominantly based in the English-speaking wor ...  Show more

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