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What does Nietzsche mean to philosophers today?
Excessively sensitive, anti-liberal, and irrelevant, or radical, prescient, and misunderstood? Six philosophers answer Kritika&Kontext's questions on Nietzsche. Their responses make one thing clear: Nietzsche still divides opinion. [more]
Acting up
When "stand-up philosopher" Slavoj Zizek calls for "repeating Lenin" or praises Robespierre's defence of terror, some observers might be tempted to ask whether his entire intellectual oeuvre is not just some kind of act. No, says John Clark. "It's not just a pose; it's a position." [Slovenian version added] [more]
Portrait of a moment in the life of a nation
A decade and a half after Slovenia's declaration of independence and three years after EU accession, political and cultural life in the country is stagnating, writes Peter Rak. A moderate sense of national spirit and collective self-love may be the only way forward. [French and German versions added] [more]
Peripheries and borders in a post-western Europe
Europe is taking not just a post-national but also a post-western shape. The relation between the inside and the outside is complex and ambivalent; while often exclusionary, the periphery can also be viewed as the site of cosmopolitan forms of negotiation. [Slovenian version added.] [more]
Democracy and philosophy
Moral insight "is a matter of imagining a better future, and observing the results of attempts to bring that future into existence". In "Kritika&Kontext", Richard Rorty (1931-2007) outlines the anti-foundationalist premise of his philosophy. [Turkish version added] [more]
The afternoon of a pragmatist faun
Richard Rorty (1931-2007)
In a non-philosophical age, Richard Rorty offered a fast and easy solution to a fundamental philosophical question. Rorty's critique of universalism constituted a liberation but left no alternative to moral ethnocentrism. [Slovenian version added.] [more]
Freedom of expression and its limits
The principle of absolute freedom of expression is always qualified by tacit agreements within societies on what can and cannot be said. [more]
Must we respect religiosity?
On questions of faith and the pride of the secular society
Secular society's "supermarket of faiths" principle appears from religion's standpoint to be indifferent and mistaken. Jan Philipp Reemtsma searches for the basis for the respect between believer and non-believer that can prevent this tension from becoming intolerance. [more]
Spirit and the end of art
Has the end of art arrived? Norman Lillegard reflects on philosophical thoughts about art and searches for the spirit in it. [more]
After the siege
A visit to Sarajevo reveals that the heroes of the siege from 1992 to 1995 have yet to be rewarded with ordinary life. [more]
Gained in translation
What is the translator's job? To bring the text to the reader or the reader to the text? And either way, do translators receive the credit they deserve? [Slovak version added] [more]
Collective suicide or globalization from below?
After the war in Iraq, a new voice for peace must come from the NGOs. [more]