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Why Did Heidegger Emerge as the Central Philosopher of the Far Right?
Julian Göpffarthopendemocracy.net
The Straussian Moment
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qui l’a emporté… Le travail des historiens est aujourd’hui essentiel pour comprendre ce que le génial économiste Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen avait lucidement pressenti dans les années 1970 : « Tout se passe comme si l’espèce humaine avait choisi de mener une vie brève mais excitante, laissant aux espèces moins ambitieuses une existence longue mais
... See morePablo Servigne • Comment tout peut s'effondrer. Petit manuel de collapsologie à l'usage des générations présentes (Anthropocène) (French Edition)
racist theories, prominent and respectable for many decades, have become anathema among scientists and politicians alike. People continue to conduct a heroic struggle against racism without noticing that the battlefront has shifted, and that the place of racism in imperial ideology has now been replaced by ‘culturism’. There is no such word, but
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By enlarging Old Europe into a new Euro-Atlantic ‘world’, the Occidentals had acquired hinterlands as varied and extensive as those of the Islamic realm or East Asia. There was much less evidence in the later early modern age that this great enlargement in territorial scale would also bring about the internal transformation to which Europe’s
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