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THE TRUTH ABOUT: Hegel - The Untold Story

Jürgen Habermas obituary

Philosopher and social theorist who advocated a new direction for German thought after the horrors of Nazi rule

The Guardian - UK

Robert Stern obituary

Other lives: Professor at Sheffield University who was one of the leading British philosophers of his generation

The Guardian - UK

The Defiant Trump Image That Made Critics Join the Cult

How a single photograph transformed Trump into a mythical leader for some critics and supporters alike.

Reason

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Did liberalism sabotage itself?

Historian Samuel Moyn's account of the downfall of liberalism raises intriguing questions — but can't answer them

Salon

English philosophers thought they had sloughed off the dead weight of history, but history suggests otherwise

Nikhil Krishnan’s intriguing and charming history, A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60, is organised around anecdotes rather than arguments. Krishnan is interested not only in “what people thought but what they were like”.

The Conversation

In the Net review – a tangled, scattergun study of global crises

Misha Levkov’s dystopian debut examines migration, climate and community action but the drama is lost amid bland philosophical arguments

The Guardian - UK

Sex, lies and Hegel: did the intimate lives of philosophers shape their ideas?

How did the intimate lives of major philosophers shape their ideas? Did their closest relationships with families, spouses, life partners and secret lovers influence their philosophies?

The Conversation

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