Her plans to research nihilism and literature in Paris, where she studied in her twenties, were crushed. Instead of travelling, she decided to immerse herself in Nietzsche at home, amid the chaos of ...

Friedrich Nietzsche, a 19th-century German philosopher, challenged traditional morality and religion, famously declaring 'God ...

A Princeton man is not criminally responsible for beating and stabbing his brother to death last year due to his severe ...

The Supreme Court has granted approval for passive euthanasia for Harish Rana, a 32-year-old man in a vegetative state for ...

History of ideas as lived experience   I have just learned of the death of the German philosopher and sociologist Jürgen ...

As the hit travelogue about the worlds beneath us becomes a film, its maker takes us on a voyage through Las Vegas storm drains and the caves of Yucatán – via Goatchurch Cavern in the bowels of Somers ...

Poonam Saxena’s translations of Mannu Bhandari and Rajendra Yadav’s memoirs provide an insight into their lives ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prompted intense backlash and debate for quoting the late American historian Will Durant’s views on power and his dismissive assessment of Jesus Christ ...

Most advice fades quickly. This set of books does not. Each one challenges how you think, react, and spend your time. Some feel uncomfortable. Some feel precise. Together, they push you to face ...

By the time he died this past Saturday at age ninety-six, Jürgen Habermas had become something of a reviled figure for much of the Left. His liberalism, centered on a belief in communicative ...

On the ship I boarded at the bottom of Argentina with the three men I love most, I put my socks in a drawer, my sweaters on a ...