philosophers

Headstone of Karl Marx’s London grave vandalized

The name and other parts of the radical philosopher’s memorial were chiseled away.

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 5, 2019 3:22 pm

Jean-Paul Sartre & Simone de Beauvoir Loved the Jews

Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir weren’t just the reigning power couple of existentialist philosophers—they were also dedicated activists, railing against the Vietnam War, abuses in the Soviet Union, and, perhaps surprisingly, anti-Semitism. Sartre and de Beauvoir traveled to Israel in 1967, months before the outbreak of the Six-Day War. There they were greeted by […]

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Would Hannah Arendt Have Liked the Movie About Her Life?

Like most important thinkers, Hannah Arendt was many things: anti-nationalist but briefly Zionist, essentially German but defiantly Jewish, intellectually rigorous and romantically passionate. Vita Activa – the Spirit of Hannah Arendt, a finely wrought new documentary by Ada Ushpiz, tries to capture the many contradictions of one of the 20th century’s great minds. The film […]

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