Nation Topics - Philosophy | The Nation

How the great Polish philosopher went from being an anticlerical scourge to an apostle of John Paul II.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte undertook a pure search for truth. He also distrusted international markets. Does that make him an ancestor to anti-globalization activists?

An online dustup between two pop star penseurs shows them staggering through afterlives.

What would it mean if we were to walk in his footsteps?

How did the conservative ideas of Friedrich Hayek and the Austrian school become our economic reality? By turning the market into the realm of great politics and morals.

The European émigré who became a philosopher of American cinema.

A philosopher’s broadside against Darwinism and materialism is mostly an instrument of mischief.

German “ordoliberalism” and Eurocrats have the EU on the brink, but Germany’s most famous philosopher remains optimistic about European democracy.

Why are moral and political thinkers failing to engage with the true, dispiriting scale of market sovereignty?

If our brains act according to the causal laws governing all matter, in what sense can we be said to be free?