Archive for the Soviet philosophy category

Globalization of obscurantist philosophy

Posted on January 17th, 2013 in African philosophy, Cornel West, Eurocentrism, Indian Philosophy, Marxism, Native American philosophy, Soviet philosophy, continental philosophy, ethnophilosophy, globalization, intellectual life, liberalism, philosophy, pluralism, postmodernism.

I have written several relevant entries both on this blog and on my Reason & Society blog. The most generic keywords to search on are ‘globalization’, ‘ethnophilosophy’, ‘postmodernism’, and ‘liberalism’ or ‘neoliberalism’ where such keywords are used. But any post on non-western philosophy is likely to be relevant, the most numerous being ‘Asian philosophy’ or [...]

March – mid-June 2008 reading review (1): books

Posted on June 16th, 2008 in Adorno, Alvin Gouldner, Dostoevsky, Enlightenment, Habermas, Heidegger, Marxism, Richard Wright, Soviet philosophy, Spinoza, analytical philosophy, atheism, critical theory, ideology, positivism, reading, social theory.

I have not published a reading review since June 2007. Instead of beginning with July, I’ll work my way backward. At the moment there is too much non-book material to document readily, so this is an effort at compiling a list of books I’ve read part or all of since the beginning of March. I [...]