The Nakba, the dispossession and expulsion of Palestinians by Israelis in 1948, in the words of Mohammed El-Kurd “breathes down our necks, invading our national identity and contorting our earliest encounters with our sense of self”. Sean Sheehan He writes this in the foreword to the 2024 edition […]
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It is not death that preoccupies us, but life
Having frank discussions about death and accepting its inevitability can help us put our own lives into perspective.. We often turn a blind eye to death in the West. But why? After all, prevailing common sense tells us that every life ultimately ends in the same way: with death. […]
Those times of confrontation
At the end of the 1940’s my father, manager of a Swiss company, arrived in the country. He threw me out of the home for being a ‘stone thrower’ at a school where leftist teachers were turning everyone into Marxists. It’s an ideology that’s still in vogue today. Armando […]
Rescuing philosophy from its lethargy
Only a radical knowledge, like philosophy, can provoke an equally radical change. Sure, not all philosophy is equal, and not all philosophers are interested in a transformation as stated by Marx. But the bottom line is the kind of philosophy that you are professing. Claudio Chipana In an […]
Antigone’s monstrous protest
“Antigone”, an ancient Greek drama, tells the story of a dictatorial ruler, Creon, and a woman, Antigone, who challenges his injunction that her deceased brother, Polyneices, cannot be buried. Sean Sheehan Antigone and Polyneices are the children of Oedipus and, because she tries to bury her brother, her […]