Philosophy
Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness
Part 4-7
By David North, August 27, 2007
Mehring Books has published a new book by David North, Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness, which is now available for purchase online. It was written in reply to a critique of the work of the ...
Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness
Parts 1-3
By David North, August 24, 2007
Mehring Books has published a new book by David North, Marxism, History & Socialist Consciousness, which is now available for purchase online. Last Friday, we began publication of the book’s tex...
Science, religion and society: Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion
By Joe Kay, March 15, 2007
In his new book, Dawkins has done us a service, if only in making more acceptable the general proposition that religion and science are at odds with each other, and that it is science that should win ...
Hegel, Marx, Engels, and the Origins of Marxism
A review of Marx After Marxism: The Philosophy of Karl Marx by Tom Rockmore
By David North, May 3, 2006
The following is second of a two-part series. The first part can be read here.
Hegel, Marx, Engels, and the Origins of Marxism
A review of Marx After Marxism: The Philosophy of Karl Marx by Tom Rockmore
By David North, May 2, 2006
The following is the first of a two-part series. The second part will be posted tomorrow.
A closer look at Kierkegaard
By Tom Carter, April 17, 2006
Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography, by Joachim Garff, translated by Bruce H. Kirmmse. 867 pages, Princeton University Press, $35
Spinoza Reconsidered
Jonathan Israel, Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750 Oxford University Press
By Ann Talbot, August 26, 2003
I last reviewed Jonathan Israel’s Radical Enlightenment on this site in 2001 just after it came out in hardback. Why return to it now? The book itself would justify another review since it is a ...
Investigating the foundations of equality
God, Locke and Equality by Jeremy Waldron
By Ann Talbot, June 16, 2003
Professor Jeremy Waldron’s latest book is an examination of the theory of equality put forward by the seventeenth century English philosopher John Locke. This is a subject that is highly relevant to...
Spinoza revisited
Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity1650-1750, by Jonathan I. Israel, Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-19-820608-9, £30.00
August 7, 2001
To talk favourably of the Enlightenment has become something of a taboo in recent years. Some writers deny its existence, while others present it as a reactionary development. It is therefore refreshi...
An exchange with a reader on postmodernism
December 4, 2000
We received the following letter on the article “The post-modernist wonderland: Intellectual Impostures by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont” [http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/jul2000/post-j01...
Two letters and two replies on "The Case of Martin Heidegger, Philosopher and Nazi"—Part 2
November 2, 2000
On April 3-5, 2000 the WSWS published a three-part series entitled, “The Case of Martin Heidegger, Philosopher and Nazi.” Today we are posting the second of two letters criticizing the art...
Two letters and two replies on "The Case of Martin Heidegger, Philosopher and Nazi"
November 1, 2000
On April 3-5, 2000 the WSWS published a three-part series entitled, “The Case of Martin Heidegger, Philosopher and Nazi.” Today and tomorrow we will post two letters from readers criticizi...
