Philosophical Dictionary

In this article we will discuss the Marxist psychiatrist and father of decolonialism Franz Fanon. We'll take a peek into his descriptions of lived experience as a Black man and the harmfulness of a culture that sees whiteness as human.

Aristotle said contemplation was the highest life. Hannah Arendt said modernity killed it and replaced action with endless labor. Now we're trapped working and consuming instead of thinking or truly acting. Her 1958 book The Human Condition warned us: we became jobholders, not citizens or thinkers.

In this article, we discuss the life and work of Karl Marx's closest collaborator and friend, Friedrich Engels, and the way his practical approach to economics informed Marx's views.

In this article, let's discuss 20th century thinker Walter Benjamin's insightful criticisms of technology as a means for creating fast-paced art, and its impact on art itself.

“God is dead”, the abyss, the dancing star, “what does not kill me”: the most famous Nietzsche quotes with their exact source, what they mean in context, how they get misread, and which viral lines he never wrote.

We discuss the life and work of Marxist feminist critical theorist Angela Davis. We offer a taste of her life's work as an activist philosopher.