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Of what can I be truly certain?
Of what can I be truly certain?

Jean Paul Mongin, François Schwoebel

Mister Descartes and his Evil Genius

Can one trust his senses when perceiving the outside world? When my sensations are the basis of my perception of my own existence, what if these sensations are to be doubted – what can the proof of my own existence be? These questions, both simple and profoundly undermining, stand at the beginning of Modernity: the philosophy of René Descartes. This book drags its readers – and musketeer-like Mister Descartes himself – into the adventure of thinking. It gives a lively...
  • Epistemologie
  • Junge Leser
  • Denken
  • Descartes
  • Gewissheit

 

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Stephen Barber

An immodest proposal

J.G. Ballard’s self-declared ‘Immodest Proposal’ for a global war-­alliance to exact the destruction of America demonstrates the provocatory zeal of his last fiction plans, as well as their enduring prescience. As Ballard emphasises several times in the World Versus America notebooks, he is utterly serious in his concerns and visions.
Although the Ballard ­estate declined permission for any images of pages from the World Versus America archival notebooks to accompany this essay, any member of the general public interested to do so can readily visit the British Library and view the notebooks in their entirety in the freely-­accessible manuscripts collection there.

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Tatsächlich ist die Frau eine uralte Erfindung
Tatsächlich ist die Frau eine uralte Erfindung

Alice Ceresa

Kleines Wörterbuch der weiblichen Ungleichheit

Es scheint allgemein anerkannt, dass Adam von Gott erschaffen wurde, um sich an der Welt zu erfreuen, und dass selbiger Gott aus dessen fünfundzwanzigster Rippe Eva machte. Da der menschliche Körper über vierundzwanzig Rippen verfügt (abzüglich der von Eva), darf man vernünftigerweise annehmen, dass es möglich gewesen wäre, aus Adams Leib weitere vierundzwanzig Evas zu gewinnen.
  • Feminismus
  • Subjektivierung
  • Gender