Immanuel Kant transformed philosophy with his idea of transcendental idealism, which suggests that the mind shapes our understanding of the world. One key aspect of his philosophy is intuition—a ...

If Frye is in some sense a proto-structuralist in his pathological monism, he is perhaps in another sense a proto-post-structuralist: for at the centre of his system wells a transcendental lack or ...

Reality overwhelming American idealism Posted March 15, 2025 2:00 pm For 50 years, I have possessed a naive and idealistic view of America as a work in progress, striving to become a more ...

The inspiration for Paul McCartney's lovely ballad was the transcendental meditation guru the Beatles hooked up with India. But the fool on the hill could be an Everyman from the late '60s ...

CARELESS PEOPLE: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, by Sarah Wynn-Williams The publisher of “Careless People” kept the existence of this memoir a secret until a few days ago ...

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In his 1973 essay on the painter Jacques Monory, Jean-François Lyotard makes significant use of the following tale from Borges’s Book of Imaginary Beings: In one of the volumes of the Lettres ...