ESSAY: Today, the extreme state is different than in the post-war period, when Sartre and Heidegger wrote about anxiety and authenticity. The existential threat today lies primarily in an uncertain planetary future.
DEATH: Via the philosopher Jean Baudrillard, can we, with today's pandemic, expose the symbolic meaning of death, the one that is otherwise difficult to spot?
Alexander Hooke: Alphonso Lingis and Existential Genealogy
VIDEN: Where is it that, according to author Alexander Hooke, "does not fit into a familiar cultural epic pattern, opera, tragedy, romance, ballet, comedy, vaudeville, sitcom, or farce"?
Gary Shapiro / Bruno Latour: Nietzsche's Earth: Great Politics, Great Events / Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
: Where Nietzsche 150 years ago advocated a high-flying and prophetic geophilosophy, Latour continues with a both poetic and down-to-earth polemic about climate agreements and the overall state of the planet.