Thursday, November 10 2011
Our Animals, Ourselves: Jenny Diski’s ‘What I Don’t Know About Animals’
Don’t be fooled by the cover. Jenny Diski’s book isn’t really about animals; it’s about us.
Wednesday, September 14 2011
OMG, You Wrote Your Own Bible? ‘The Good Book: A Humanist Bible’ by A. C. Grayling
Like the 'real' Bible, The Good Book is an eclectic and contradictory mix, containing much that really is very good, but also some that’s bad and ugly, and quite a lot that’s unbearably dull.
Tuesday, August 9 2011
Quentin Tarantino’s Cinematic Reality
Quentin Tarantino is reliving his childhood cinema experiences, reinterpreting fractured moments of memory. Going to the movies is about an escape from our world, a mirror world at once familiar yet different.
Sunday, May 22 2011
Gazing upon the Bitch-goddess of Quantification: ‘The Information’
We are drowning in a sea of information. Shall we stop to count the waves, or try to make sense of it all? The first of these two is the way of information theory.
Tuesday, April 26 2011
‘Revolutionary Deists’: Fanatics for a Reason
The story of deism proves that America has never been, in an absolute sense, a Christian nation.
Monday, August 30 2010
‘Manga and Philosophy’: More Connections Than You Might Think
The latest volume in Open Court's Popular Culture and Philosophy series casts a philosophical eye on the world of manga.
Tuesday, April 20 2010
Zombies, Vampires and Philosophy: New Life for the Undead
Fans will find themselves terrified by some of the author's lack of knowledge of and respect for the horror genre.
Wednesday, March 24 2010
Plato’s Podcasts: The Ancients’ Guide to Modern Living by Mark Vernon
Do Paris Hilton and Diogenes the Cynic really have anything in common? Mark Vernon thinks so.
Friday, February 26 2010
Examined Life
This punctures the image of philosophy as a rarefied field, where philosophers live in some kind of Cartesian bubble, their brains effectively separated from their bodies.
Thursday, January 21 2010
Supervillains and Philosophy by Ben Dyer, ed.
"Does a supervillain see himself as a supervillain? Does he see his own actions as evil?"
