Peter Schwarz

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Is nihilism still philosophically and politically relevant?

I'm organizing a workshop on nihilism, ethics, and democracy which will be an open-ended forum spanning the radical materialism of French physician and philosopher Julien de La Mettrie (1709-1751)...

11 November 2014 8,354 10 View

What is ideology? What is the distinction between the ideological and the political?

The term "ideology" predates Marx and Engels, e.g., Antoine Destutt de Tracy (1796) coined the word to refer to the science of ideas. Since de Tracy, the term "ideology" has evolved into different...

11 November 2012 7,047 5 View