Category Archives: kant

The tyranny of conscience

Umberto Galimberti has an interesting piece in today’s Repubblica, which unfortunately doesn’t seem to appear on the paper’s website. He talks about the way people claim to be unable to do certain things or behave in a certain way because … Continue reading

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Unsynthesised manifold

And while we’re reading Greer, just a reminder of the time she was knuckle-rapped by some Plain English people about her use of the term unsynthesised manifold and responded splendidly. I admit that I didn’t know the term myself, which … Continue reading

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