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Thompson, Kevin and Perry Zurn. Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group [1970-1980]. Trans. Perry Zurn and Erik Bernanek. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. xvii + 492 [...]

The temporality of debt is complex and always points in two directions. What I ought to do is based on what I owe, but what I owe is based on [...]

The article centers on the exploration of reason, emphasizing the foundational role of the Socratic perspective in Western philosophical tradition. It argues for a reconstruction of reason as an urgent political and existential task, considering historical moments like Socratic and Ciceronian reasoning for insights that challenge the current narrow and detached understanding of reason.

The article explores the evolving reception of Jack Kerouac in China across three phases, from initial repudiation to eventual affirmation, using Kerouac's reception as a lens to understand broader changes in Chinese culture and politics. Topics covered include the ideological classification of Kerouac during different periods, the cultural and political context shaping his reception, and the transformation of Chinese academic attitudes toward the Beat Generation.

In 1984 Michel Foucault published the long awaited sequel to his Histoire de la sexualite. The Use of Pleasures, as volume two was titled, ends with a final chapter called [...]

Jeffrey Di Leo, Corporate Humanities in Higher Education: Moving Beyond the Neoliberal Academy New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, xxi + 187 pp. Classicists take the long view. Surveying the history [...]

DIOTIMA: Indeed since Eros is always [the desire of the good], would Eros be the name of the zeal and the intensity of those pursuing the good in a certain [...]