Elisabeth, Salomé, Nietzsche, and the Whip
“Supposing truth is a woman - what then?” —Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil I didn’t need an algorithm to teach me this, but I have noticed they eventually start serving me animal in peril...
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I'm Mona Mona, a phenomenologist and feminist philosopher with a PhD in Philosophy from Stony Brook University, a Continental Philosophy program. I write about the philosophical foundations of collective life, and I built this site as a quiet place to read: no ads, no trackers, nothing competing with the text.
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