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He was a professor at twenty-three, was overshadowed by Hegel, and was then forgotten. Yet over the past thirty years Schelling's philosophy of nature and his essay on freedom have been read again. The reason is simple: his was the first great attempt to think the human being without placing it outside nature.
Entries for the Berggruen Institute's 100,000-dollar essay competition closed on 17 August. This year's subject is Karl Jaspers's notion of the Axial Age: is humanity once again on the hinge of history? For the first time the competition also accepted works of fiction.
Love, loneliness, status anxiety and the search for meaning. The Anglo-Swiss writer is the best-known figure taking philosophy beyond the bounds of academic specialism and applying it to ordinary concerns. His question is as old as Socrates': how should we live?
The philosopher who carries the Frankfurt School's inheritance argues that behind social conflict lies an invisible demand: recognition. In his recent work he has taken that framework into working life, asking whether democracy can be learnt on the job.
Axel Honneth
The argument about artificial intelligence turns almost entirely on whether the machine thinks. Derrida's work on the archive, on writing, on the trace and on responsibility pulls the question back a step: once machines begin to write and to remember, what becomes of the author, the subject and responsibility?
The final volume of a trilogy thirty years in the making turns on a single question: is going on living a principle, or an opportunity that depends on circumstances? Earlier this year the French philosopher put the same question to the limits of medicine.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born in Stuttgart on 27 August 1770, 256 years ago today. The system that read history as the unfolding of reason has spent two centuries being both the most closely followed and the most flatly rejected philosophy there is.
'Being and Nothingness' is a chapter from Quentin Meillassoux's 1997 doctoral thesis, which has never been published as a book. The text shows the first form of the principle of factiality, which twenty years later would sit at the heart of After Finitude — and it takes that form in an argument with Derrida.
Quentin Meillassoux
Toole has carried standpoint epistemology back into contemporary debate, and she is also the founder of Corrupt the Youth, a programme that takes philosophy into disadvantaged schools. A single thesis binds the two: knowledge is not independent of the position of the knower.
