Comebacks can be tough — even when you are famous enough to be known only by your initials. So it has been this week in Paris, where France’s best-known contemporary philosopher, Bernard-Henri Lévy — ...

COMMENTARY: The roots of the current transgender movement and man-hating feminism can be traced back to the theories of two despairing French philosophers, Simone de Beauvoir and her lover Jean-Paul ...

The matchup: One of the world's foremost living philosophers versus an audience of earnest, artistic Portlanders. On the stage, at roughly 5-foot-9, the eminent French intellectual Jacques Ranciere , ...

PARIS – World-renowned thinker Jacques Derrida, a charismatic philosopher who founded the school known as deconstructionism, has died, the French president’s office said Saturday. He was 74. Derrida ...

French philosophy is famous for radical theory in the service of progressive social causes. If Diderot, Rousseau, and Voltaire propelled this tradition in the 18th century (inspiring the French ...

Content warning: This article contains mentions of sexual assault. Philosopher Manon Garcia discussed her newest book, The Joy of Consent, on October 11. The talk, moderated by political science ...

Jean Baudrillard, a French philosopher, sociologist, and social theorist who was best known for his work on consumerism, modern excesses, and what he called reality’s disappearance, including a 1991 ...

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