Philosophy

Eurozone crisis: Hegel’s wake-up call

Every politician should read Hegel's two-century-old "The Phenomenology of Spirit" to understand the euro crisis. He wrote that prosperity is not the answer to everything, and that citizens also seek recognition in democracy, according to a Dutch journalist. Extracts.

18 July 2013 – Trouw (Amsterdam) 171
Economic crisis: Technocracy has been here all along

Want to escape technocracy? Start listening to generalist thinkers, not just financiers and economists, says philosopher Stephen Rainey. Recently, as it is hard to ignore, economic […]

29 November 2011 – Presseurop Notebook
Obituary: So farewell then Leszek Kolakowski

Gazeta Wyborcza pays homage to Leszek Kolakowski, the most influential Polish philosopher of the XXth century who died on Friday. “He started and won the […]

20 July 2009 – Presseurop Gazeta Wyborcza
Philosophy: Germany celebrates reluctant Habermas

Jürgen Habermas, the only living world-renowned German philosopher, turned 80 this 18 June – and the press is lionising the octogenarian thinker. “He is the […]

18 June 2009 – Presseurop Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

No more items.