“Thinking, Writing, and Living in a Postmetaphysical Age: Gray, Rorty, Sloterdijk, Vattimo” – Rodrigo MENEZES

Paper presented at the "After Human? Making Sense between Art, Science, and Religion in the 21st Century" Lecture Series (2022-23), Katholische Privatuniversität Linz, January 26, 2023. What follows is a reflection on the challenges facing us as inhabitants of an ever more complex, technologically-driven world. It’s divided in 2 parts, 2 propositions based on a pair of…

“Parisian Buddhism: Cioran’s exercises” – Peter SLOTERDIJK

The last figure I wish to present in these introductory reflections, the Romanian aphorist Emile M. Cioran, who was born in 1911 and lived in Paris from 1937 to 1995, is likewise part of the great turn that is at issue here. He is an important informant for us, because one can see in his…