"Chance and Necessity" Revisited
How does Albert Camus’s friendship with a molecular biologist unlock a key moment in 20th-century thought?
How does Albert Camus’s friendship with a molecular biologist unlock a key moment in 20th-century thought?
Oren HarmanJul 24, 2014
DURING A LONG, misogynistic, masochistic tirade early in his eponymous play, Hamlet accuses himself of being a coward who “Must, like a whore...
Andrew LanhamFeb 8, 2014
McKenzie Wark speaks 10 years after the publication of The Hacker Manifesto.
Melissa GreggDec 17, 2013
FRETTING, PERHAPS, for the fate of his own work, Jorge Luis Borges described the tendency of time to denude and adulterate a careful architecture of...
John Paul RollertDec 14, 2013
Certain words are made to be used in titles — “blue” is one of them.
Dylan J. MontanariDec 5, 2013
ARNE De BOEVER talks to STATHIS GOURGOURIS about his latest book, Lessons in Secular Criticism. ¤
Arne De BoeverDec 3, 2013
In Plant-Thinking, Michael Marder wants to forge a philosophical encounter with vegetal life, all the while respecting the alien ontology of floral...
Dominic PettmanJul 28, 2013
THE SWEDISH PHILOSOPHER and literary scholar Martin Hägglund has swiftly established himself at the center of some of today’s most lively intellectual...
David WintersFeb 5, 2013
Los Angeles Review of Books is a reader-supported literary non-profit, publishing essays like this one from our archive for free to the public every...
Costica BradatanNov 14, 2012
On recent translations of the Russian formalist's 'Bowstring' and 'Energy of Delusion'
Jonathan FoltzOct 24, 2012
The History of the Los Angeles Hotel in the Twentieth Century: An Interview Roundtable
Erik MorseOct 18, 2012
The History of the Los Angeles Hotel in the Twentieth Century: An Interview Roundtable
Erik MorseOct 18, 2012
The History of the Los Angeles Hotel in the Twentieth Century: An Interview Roundtable
Erik MorseOct 18, 2012
QUOTING THE POET Jean Paul, German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk remarks at the beginning of his controversial essay “Rules for the Human Zoo” that...
Joshua MostafaAug 21, 2012
Catherine Malabou, a French philosopher who teaches at Kingston University in England, is the author of 'The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain...
LARBMay 5, 2012
Our heroes: unlikely philosophers, whining their way through the American South
Susan Salter ReynoldsMar 24, 2012
many of us have spent the last decades living in a disappointed age, an age in which the entire notion of “revolution” became a joke
Jess RowMar 15, 2012
Serres reveals that pollution is not merely a by-product of industrialization, but a fundamental human, indeed animal, activity.
Susan StewartSep 22, 2011
LUMINOUS, PENETRATING, AND UNCANONIZABLE, the writings of 20th-century French philosopher Simone Weil were neither originally conceived as books nor...
Chris KrausMay 31, 2011