Why Denial Persists – OpEd
We recently returned from a conference in Lisbon, Portugal, where we spent several days after the event’s conclusion exploring this
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Author: Bert Olivier
Bert Olivier works at the Department of Philosophy, University of the Free State. Bert does research in Psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, ecological philosophy and the philosophy of technology, Literature, cinema, architecture and Aesthetics. His current project is 'Understanding the subject in relation to the hegemony of neoliberalism.'
Articles by Bert Olivier :
Do People Want Precious Freedom? – OpEd
That most perspicacious of social theorists, Zymunt Bauman – on whose work I have drawn before (see for example here) –
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Savage Reservations – OpEd
Because we have a need to understand the world around us – some more than others – most people, myself
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A View Of Kant From The East – OpEd
My wife and I are in Kaliningrad, Russia – in what the Russians call ‘Little Russia’ as opposed to ‘Big Russia’
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Ancient Political Advice For Today’s Rulers – OpEd
It is probably the case that politicians who are encouraged to read the works of the ancient Greek thinker, Plato – particularly The Republic –
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