Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant
To preserve the unrestricted authority of reason in the moral sphere, Kant argued that the scientific use of reason yields knowledge of appearances only, not of things as they are in themselves. This …
Jacques Lacan and Psychoanalysis
Jacques Lacan was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist whose reinterpretations of Freud’s work profoundly influenced psychoanalysis, philosophy, and critical theory in the 20th century.
Thomas Chatterton Williams. Personal Profile.
Thomas Chatterton Williams is an American cultural critic and writer born on March 26, 1981, in Newark, New Jersey. He is the son of a black father, Clarence Williams, and a white mother, Kathleen. Named after the English poet Thomas Chatterton, he grew up in Fanwood, New Jersey, and attended Union Catholic Regional High School. He earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Georgetown University and a master's degree from New York University's Cultural Reporting and Criticism program.