From the dead to the living. Jon Fosse’s Nobel Prize in literature can on the heels of a lifelong investigation of the possibility we have for communicating with the dead. His texts and the characters that inhabit them …

From Plato’s famous dualism of body and soul we are today confronted with a plethora of perspectives promising to overcome historical dichotomies, and putting in their place a promise of social unity and reconciliation.…

Wolfgang Schirmacher’s formulation of *Homo Generator* relies on a sense of the human subject that can be traced back to Martin Heidegger’s that we are at our most authentic when we are not identical to ourselves, or, i…

This paper explores the tension between the perceived “wholeness” of Bruce Lee as a cultural icon and the inherent trauma and fragmentation of the human experience. While sociological readings often frame Lee as a symbo…

The work of the Baroque masters, such as the vanitas of Danish poet Thomas Kingo, serves to remind us of our post-modern fix. They signify our in-ability to realize the potentialities of our social circumstances. May ne…