You might be surprised to learn that the word “empathy” is a fairly new addition to the English language. It was suggested as a translation for the German term einfühlung (“a feeling into”) by...

I first encountered Donna Haraway's “A Cyborg Manifesto” in a feminist epistemologies seminar in the early 1990s. At that time, we felt that we were on the cusp of something new, and her writing...

I’ve scheduled a live for this Wednesday, April 2 at 1pm EST, on Audre Lorde’s “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action.” You can easily find a copy of this text online, and above I’ve...

Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth is a brilliant yet deeply unsettling account of the psychological and social effects of colonization on oppressed peoples. Born in Martinique and trained as a...

--- Mindscaping Philosophy Journal Prompt: Imagine a world where experiences serve as currency that you can trade with others. Once traded, these experiences leave your memory completely. Which...

It is hard to overstate the importance of Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time. It turned the world of philosophy upside down and inaugurated existentialist phenomenology, existentialism, philosophical...

Hello Frens, Exciting news! The first volume of Mindscaping, A Philosophical Journal is now available. As a paid subscriber to Philosophy Publics, you're getting exclusive access to this new resource...

“Across nations and cultures, entire words and ideas are missing or deprived of the weight they deserve. The presence of absence is just as powerful as the spread of misinformation or false news....

Thank you , , , , and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. We delve into the six characteristics of totalitarianism as discussed by Seyla Benhabib,...

What follows is an exegetical account of Jean Paul Sartre’s section “The Look” from Being and Nothingness. In this section, Sartre explains how our encounter with the Other challenges our own sense...

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As a group, we attended a panel and discussion hosted by the Library of America billed as follows: “The rise of totalitarian governments,” Hannah Arendt wrote, “is the central event of our world.”...

Thank you for those of you who made it to this Philosophy Publics Unplugged live. Join me for the next live on Wednesdays at 12noon EST. In this episode, we delve into the concept of intuition and...

Dear Frens, Looking back at the past couple weeks, we have been very busy! First, I launched our private subscriber 1. Discord Server where we have been discussing all the things and getting to...

Thank you , , and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. --- Transcript: Hello everyone. Welcome, welcome. This is our first live. I am Mona Mona. I...

A Thousand Plateaus is the second volume of the Capitalism and Schizophrenia project (the first is Anti-Oedipus) by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and psychoanalyst Felix Guattari. This is a very...

In What Are Friends For? (1993), Marilyn Friedman offers an analysis of friendship in its moral, epistemological, and political dimensions. Her work is clear and analytic, and particularly useful for...

"Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through." — Luce Irigaray, An Ethics of Sexual Difference In An Ethics of Sexual Difference...

Hello Frens! Here is your round-up of Philosophy Publics posts going back a few weeks. Much of this content was in response to requests that came from y’all — keep the great suggestions coming! I’ve...

It is 1792. Mary Wollstonecraft has just published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, a precursor text for a first wave of feminism that will not begin for at least another fifty years.1 Her...