philosophy
German writer Hatto Fischer on Greece 'madness' and 'European debts’
The Bavarian-born philosopher and co-founder of the NGO Poiein Kai Prattein (‘create and do’), which launched in Athens in 2003, explains why Europeans have thought that the Greeks were mad, and how we can learn from their current fiscal tragedy
philosophy, athens, society, stereotype , politics, interview, greece
Slovenia gets thinking: man's attitude to animal
'Man – animal to man' was a two-day project in Ljubljana on 29 and 30 November 2010, organised and run by the student association of culture studies, Kult.co. A series of lectures, art and theatre workshops, film screenings and debates were all dedicated to investigating man's attitude to animal. Extract from cafebabel.com Ljubljana city blog
Study philosophy in Europe: France’s discern is UK’s ticket to top
In the collective (French) conscience, it’s a lunar individual who studies philosophy, disconnected from the modern world and who brushes aside finance and marketing books. In reality their anxiety for the future remains a young one, choked by the crisis and demanding whether Socrates or Aristotle can really still mean something
philosophy, university, students, erasmus, society, europe, school
Slavoj Zizek: great European export or sell-out to US cultural hegemony?
The Slovenian philosopher cites Viagra to prop up Lacanian theory, wrote a critique of the matrix and has linked Hegel to sex games and Maggie Thatcher. Zizek is an impish theorist with immense transatlantic and popular appeal. So why haven't we heard of him?
philosophy, karl marx, ideology, slovenia, profile, georg friedrich hegel , ljubljana
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