by Justin Carmien
In a journal entry published to The Pop-Up School on February 4th 2024, Bonnitta Roy introduced the series “Why Metaphysics Matters, A Lively Discussion About Why Metaphysics Matters In Our Current Metamodern Era”. In this article, Roy began to answer the question which I had posed to her a few years ago in this video:…
In the 1999 book Heidegger’s Temporal Idealism, William Blattner argues for something quite novel and interesting for his time. Blattner believes that Martin Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit (“Being and Time”) belongs to a philosophical project which can be exemplified by the philosophies of Plotinus, G.W. Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, and Henri Bergson. Blattner characterizes each of these thinkers, along…
Of principal importance to the metamodern political project is an understanding of both power and history. These two words direct our attention to particular obstacles which previous political projects have faced, but were not able to circumvent, such that we suffer from those same obstacles today. Common to the post-WWII period of thought is sociological…