Badiou's references to Heidegger are surprisingly infrequent, given his obvious admiration for the great German think: "Out epoch can be said to have been stamped and signed by the return of the question of being. That is ...

Manuel DeLanda is one of the few admitted realists in present-day continental philosophy, a position he claims to draw from Deleuze. DeLanda conceives of the world as made up of countless layers of assemblages, irreducible ...

In Timothy Morton's The Ecological Thought, the terminological pillars for most of the book are "the mesh" and "the strange stranger." A third key term, "hyperobjects," dominates the final pages of the book. In his forthcoming ...

This article gives the outlines of a realist metaphysics, despite the continuing unpopularity of both realism and metaphysics in the continental tradition. Instead of the dull realism of mindless atoms and billiard balls ...

Our own era is widely viewed as a golden age of intellectual tolerance when compared with the persecutions of yesteryear. But in fact, this tolerance serves to mask a fundamental indifference of one perspective to another. ...

The tetrad, as articulated by Marshall and Eric McLuhan, articulates a new approach to the interplay between visible figures and their deeper grounds-- a central theme of German philosophy since Kant. The goal of this ...

This article addresses several closely linked issues: the mind-body problem, the relation between first-person and third-person descriptions, and panpyschism. First, the mind-body problem is one small part of a more basic ...