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Published in: HomeJürgen Habermas: our European Hegel?
What is left out in Habermas’s deliberations on Europe is any possibility for political, social or cultural...
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Published in: ourNHSDoctors have always been over-worked, but that's not what's causing the recruitment crisis
The greatest reward of being a doctor - relating to patients as fellow complicated human beings - has been lost...
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Published in: HomeBreaching the long litany of unlesses: a response to Simon Glendinning’s ‘Saving Europe from salvation'
The risk to Europe is a perpetuation of crisis by implacable erosion, and with this the abdication of political...
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Published in: HomePhilosophy as a model of active and responsible life
The task of philosophy then becomes an opportunity to dialogue. We have to risk being in search of what joins us in...
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Published in: HomePolitical dissidence as care for the soul: reflections on Jan Patočka
In the experience and activity of political dissidence, care for the soul realized itself through denying the...
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Published in: HomeCharter 77 and the “solidarity of the shaken”
The individual should learn to expose himself to the risk of giving up his egoistic prerogatives, in order to build...
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Published in: HomeMaking policy out of mindfulness
Does the attempt to rationalize mindfulness and make a tool for better performance and efficiency undermine its core concept?
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Published in: HomeOn Solidarity
The idea of solidarity has its roots in the history of the workers’ movement, and as this is usually excluded from...
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Published in: HomeSolidarity and Flourishing – a short exchange
Dagmar Wilhelm--see here her video conversation on solidarity with Darian Meacham-- has been consulting her...
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Published in: HomeHeretical Europe: Jan Patočka as symbol of dissident contingency
Post-Europe, for Patočka, must be acutely aware of its own contingency even when it proclaims (above all when it...
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Published in: HomeEurope in a labyrinth and the material power of ideas
The Greek government has the mandate to revive the idea of solidarity and social justice, but also the idea of the...
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Published in: HomeThe crisis of means without ends: two forms of rationality in the foundations of Europe
Patočka calls for a renewed effort in Europe today to reestablish some kind of equilibrium between “the rationality...
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Published in: HomeAthens, a flourishing polis
Amid the crisis, the Athens city council won the Bloomberg Philanthropy sustainable development and EFTA solidarity awards.
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Published in: HomeMoney that flourishes
We need to embrace and create new money systems that focus on enabling us to achieve our goals and maximize our potential.
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Published in: HomeIntroducing three old ideas for a new Europe: flourishing, solidarity and care for the soul
These ideas--care for the soul, flourishing, solidarity--are ideas that according to Jan Patočka could be useful for...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The poetry in the pity
War remembrance is one of the oldest and most enduring forms of art in the western tradition. Our literary culture...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Saving Europe from salvation
National competences are not something one can waive away with a magic wand and reassign to international...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Life after Europe: the Post-Europe Project
The joint editors of Europe – the very idea introduce the next stage of their project – a discussion inspired by the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Kojève’s idea of the end of history: a philosophical key to the European economic crisis
What I would like to argue is that this historical and existential process retraced by Kojève helps to clarify the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Nomads and migrants: Deleuze, Braidotti and the European Union in 2014
If European society at large is applying an exclusionary logic to certain groups, it is only encouraging the...