Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This paper proposes that Albert Camus is a distinctive thinker of nihilism, whose unique contribution to debates around nihilism has been widely under-valued. We position his thinking of nihilism in con…
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article revisits Max Weber’s theory of values by focussing on the often-overlooked concept of ‘worldview’ (Weltanschauung). By exploring Weber’s distinction between reason, decision and historical …
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Recently, political commentators have taken to characterizing our dystopian present (or near-future) as either Huxleyan or Orwellian. This pairing can be seen as an invitation to reconsider the philosop…
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Literature on the relationship between creativity and ideology is comprised of two broad schools of thought: either creativity is the limit to ideology and vice-versa, or creativity is subordinate to id…
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This paper examines Hannah Arendt’s critique of classical social contract theory through her analysis of the twentieth-century crisis of personal judgement. Whereas scholarship often attributes the cris…
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. In this article, I investigate the concept of unexpectedness in action, drawing primarily on the ideas of Arendt and Ricoeur. The investigation is furthered through temporal, historical and semantic dim…
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. There remains something pertinent and gripping about Susan Sontag’s critique of illness metaphors and her broader effort to work toward a more humane and dignified view of suffering. Yet her call to lib…
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. The aim of this paper is not solely or primarily to refute the charge of anti-Semitism levelled against Marx. It also intends (1) to show that the growing anti-Semitism of his time played a far more imp…
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. This article concerns the question of race in late Enlightenment German philosophy and makes the case for why we in that context should reconsider the writings of Alexander von Humboldt in the philosoph…
Philosophy &Social Criticism, Ahead of Print. Adorno is a complex philosopher whose ‘negative dialectics’ can serve as an antithesis to simplistic constructions of knowledge in which subject and object can be known and defined. Adorno’s philosophy …