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Columbia University Press published the first volume of Alain Badiou's seminars on anti-philosophy in June. For Badiou, Nietzsche is not a philosopher at all but an 'anti-philosopher' — a thinker who attacks philosophy from the outside.
Alain Badiou, Friedrich Nietzsche
The sharpest critic of moral philosophy in the last quarter of the twentieth century put the same objection to utilitarianism and to Kantianism alike: both estrange a person from his own life. The notions of 'moral luck' and 'one thought too many' were born there.
Marking a century in print, the journal returns to an article it published a quarter of a century ago: Bernard Williams's 'Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline'.
The French philosopher received an honorary doctorate from Leiden University on 9 February 2026. Her public lecture the following day started from Derrida's idea of the 'unconditional university' and asked what has become of it.
Catherine Malabou
The author of After Virtue died in 2025 at the age of 96. His thesis that the modern moral vocabulary is a heap of unintelligible fragments is still being argued over.
Alasdair MacIntyre
The Bulgarian-born French thinker turned 85 on 24 June. Kristeva, who visited Bulgaria in May, works with concepts that move between linguistics, psychoanalysis and feminism.
Julia Kristeva
The mathematician, physicist and thinker Blaise Pascal died on 19 August 1662 at the age of thirty-nine. What survived was the notes for an unfinished book: the Pensées.
On 18 August 1868, during a total solar eclipse in India, Pierre Janssen saw an unknown line in the sun's spectrum. An element that had never been found on earth had been discovered in the sky.
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Immanuel Kant looks for the measure of moral rightness not in consequences but in the principle of the act. The three formulations of the categorical imperative, and why they are still argued about.
