ALIENATION. RAHEL JAEGGI, Columbia University Press The Hegelian-Marxist idea of alienation fell out of favor after the postmetaphysical rejection of humanism and essentialist views of human nature. [...] Read more

Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death endures because it confronts the most universal yet most repressed dimension of human existence. Its brilliance lies in revealing that the striving for [...] Read more