Alan Sokal articles on the social text affair
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/
The "Social Text affair" was physicist Alan Sokal's hoaxing of the science studies journal Social Text with a bogus paper on the "Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity". Although intentionally meritless as argument, the paper used terminology common to social and cultural studies, deploying genuine quotations on science from continental philosophy icons such as Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) and Jean-Francois Lyotard (1924-1998). The acceptance of the paper for publication provoked a far-ranging debate about the status of science studies, of French intellectual culture, relativism versus realism, and the abuse of scientific terminology in the humanities. On this page, Sokal collects together a broad set of links and references to that debate, organised in terms of debates, commentaries, interviews, reviews, and further papers, deriving from both academic sources and the popular press. Of particular note is the annotated section on papers by Sokal, including the original article that sparked the affair. Many papers are in English, though a significant number of responses are in French and Portuguese. The site is fairly well maintained, but some links are no longer functioning. Some papers are in PDF format. This site would be of interest to students and researchers with either a morbid curiosity about alleged failings in humanities scholarship, or an interest in seeking to avoid them.
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Albert Camus Society UK
http://www.camus-society.com/
The Albert Camus Society UK website aims to promote the work and thought of Albert Camus. Well-organized and clearly structured, this site is easy to navigate, visually appealing and accessible to those with little prior knowledge of the work and life of Camus. Divided into six main sections, the Albert Camus Society UK site includes pages on: Camus' biography; his thought; the society itself; Camus' writing; further links; and a blog. The biographical pages offer a detailed, accurate and digestible overview of Camus' life and background. The section dedicated to Camus' thought provides an introduction to central questions which preoccupied him, such as absurdism and existentialism. It also offers brief synopses of other key works, namely: 'The Stranger'; 'The Plague'; and 'Caligula'. There is a lack of balance in the attention given to some texts over others; 'The Stranger' receiving the most detailed treatment. There is then practical information given about joining the society, a chronological list of Camus's writing and links to student resources on some of Camus' principle works. Finally, the Camus Society blog provides a space to share news, reviews, opinions and other information related to Camus studies such as events, seminars and recent publications. The blog page includes monthly archives which detail past postings. The site presents Camus' thought and work in clear terms, providing an accessible introduction to his philosophical ideas. As such, these pages will be most useful for undergraduate students and teachers of French literature and philosophy.
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ALEX catalogue of electronic texts
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
For those eager to locate electronic versions of major English and American literary or Western philosophical works, a good place to look is the ALEX Catalogue of Electronic Texts. Developed by Eric Morgan (North Carolina State University), the catalogue is a substantial search engine offering access to writings from over 100 different western authors, primarily from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, but with a few Aristotelian and Augustinian works thrown in for good measure. ALEX has a collection development policy which in summary defines its scope as public domain texts (available in complete form), written in English, relevant to English, American Literature or Western Philosophy, and classed as 'great literature'. On the last point the editor is guided by the inclusion of the work within such reference works as the Oxford Companions or the Norton Anthologies. ALEX contains about 140 MB of texts (the actual number of distinct works is not easily available). The selection of works is eclectic at best, but it is difficult to imagine undergraduate students not encountering a sizable portion of these authors during their academic careers. The catalogue itself may be searched by author and/or title, date, keyword, and whole volumes (which can often be very large) instantly read. Texts can be selected, built into corpora, and then further searched. Results are in the form of records which give details about the original publication date, any subsequent copyright date, subject keywords, and its location (both original and archive locations). Morgan has also gone out of his way to include additional features that make the texts more functional and portable. A number of the works are accompanied by an electronic concordance that will be welcomed by anyone trying to locate a particular theme or sentence. It is also possible to add the text to a personalisd online bookshelf; create transferable PDF-files; or even configure files to read on Palm-based PDAs (Personal Data Assistants).
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Bakhtin centre
http://www.shef.ac.uk/bakhtin/
The Bakhtin Centre was founded at the University of Sheffield in 1994. The Centre promotes interdisciplinary work on the Russian philosopher, Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) and the Bakhtin Circle. The Centre's home page contains information about the work of the Centre and its staff; and provides access to a range of online resources. Included amongst these is the Bakhtin Analytical Database, which aims to provide an inclusive record of works by and about the Bakhtin Circle. The database has an emphasis on Russian-language items which tend to be inaccessible outside Russian-speaking regions. The database contains, and can be searched by, a full list of bibliographic fields. Other resources include information about the Centre's printed journal, Dialogism: An International Journal of Bakhtin Studies; an email discussion forum; a collection of online papers from the Centre's research seminar series; and links to other online resources, conferences, and publications. The Centre is directed by Professor David Shepherd.
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Budhi : a journal of ideas and culture
http://www.philjol.info/index.php/budhi
'Budhi: a journal of ideas and culture' is a cross-disciplinary refereed ejournal. At February 2009 there is one full-text issue online, although this is "Vol.9, No.1", from 2005. The journal aims to... "define and further develop the practices of thought in the fields of philosophy, theology, literature, culture, the social sciences, and the arts", and is published in English from Manila University in the Philippines. Articles are offered in PDF format. Example titles from the first issue are: 'Continental Philosophy: Towards the future'; 'Reimagining the Intervention Narrative: Complicity, Globalization, and Humanitarian Discourse'; and 'Notes on American Cultural Imperialism', among others. The journal also publishes poetry. There are details of the editor, Editorial Board, open access policy, and submissions procedure. Since no additional issues have been added since 2005, yet the stated frequency is "three times a year", it is possible the journal has effectively ceased publication online.
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Center for advanced research in phenomenology
http://www.phenomenologycenter.org/
Founded in 1971, The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology is an organisation dedicated to fostering and advancing the study of phenomenology specifically, and the continental philosophical tradition more broadly. This site makes available a number of resources useful to students of phenomenology at all levels, including: a brief overview of phenomenology; a photo collection of key thinkers in the field; a list of publishing outlets that cater to phenomenological research; an international registry of phenomenologists; and a list of new publications. Although certain parts of the site are in need of updating, it contains sufficient information such that it should prove useful to all those interested in phenomenology.
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Centre of theology and philosophy
http://www.theologyphilosophycentre.co.uk/
The Centre of Theology and Philosophy (COTP) is a research centre based in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham. This homepage contains information about the centre's staff, fellows and members; courses they offer and the conferences they organise. The site, which should be of particular interest to those pursuing Religious Studies degree programmes, also provides resources like online papers (available in Word and PDF); a discussion forum; a news section; podcasts; reviews of recent publications in the areas of theology and philosophy; and links to relevant websites. The centre is directed by John Millbank, Professor in Religion, Politics and Ethics. He is also the author of most of the online papers made available on the site.
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Continental philosophy
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/continental/
This web resource is intended to provide resources and links for researchers and students in the various areas of continental philosophy. It contains an extensive range of links to sites covering all aspects of continental philosophy and most canonical figures in its history (for example, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, and Richard Rorty). In addition, there are sections covering deconstruction, critical theory, existentialism, and feminist theory and gender studies. The site is well-organised and easily navigable, featuring three independent drop down menus which allow users to select from a large range of fields of study or authors. Some topics and authors are very well represented with a great deal of bibliographical, biographical, and philosophical information available. Unfortunately, the quantity of resources offered on certain non-mainstream areas of continental thought is not so impressive. In addition to the above features, users can access general pages dedicated to a variety of aspects of continental philosophy, as well as teaching resources, the home pages of journals, societies, and conferences.
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Continental philosophy
http://www.continental-philosophy.org/
This website serves as a bulletin board for events and commentaries relating to Continental Philosophy. It is maintained by Farhang Erfani, an assistant professor of philosophy at the American University, in D.C. The materials, which comprise the main topics that fall within this branch of philosophy, are arranged in alphabetical order. There are also video recordings of lectures; and information about books; book reviews; and job vacancies. Viewers are allowed access to their monthly archives which date back to July 2006. The site also provides links to other blogs and the homepages of philosophical societies. A search engine is available.
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Critical spaces
http://www.criticalspaces.org.uk/
This website describes Critical Spaces: the Centre for Critical Cultural Research at the University of Plymouth. The Centre aims to further interdisciplinary research across the “arts, humanities, social sciences and visual technologies”. Research areas include: cultural agency; art/theory post-socialism; art/theory and non-teleological creativity and thought. The centre orginates post doctoral projects and offers doctoral supervision as well as facilitating dissemination of research outputs and building European links. The Centre holds regular research events, such as conferences and symposia, and in 2007 organised an AHRC-funded workshop on creativity and social agency – the website includes more details of all these activities. The website includes brief biographies of some of the staff connected with the Centre, as well as information on its research degrees including the M.Res. programme in ‘Utopian Studies’. The website also includes four texts by Malcolm Miles: ‘Introduction to Critical Theory' ;'Walter Benjamin for Today?'; 'Society as a Work of Art'; 'Aesthetics and Politics: distance and engagement in the 1930s and the 1970s'.
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Discourse on the origin and the foundations of inequality among men
http://ota.oucs.ox.ac.uk/headers/2524.xml
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), the famous French philosopher and writer, prepared his Discourse on Inequality (also called the Second Discourse) as an entry in a competition organized by the Academy of Dijon in 1754. He had won first prize in a previous competition (in 1750) with his Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts (the First Discourse), a victory which had helped to make him famous. The Second Discourse did not fare so well in the contest. When the Second Discourse was published again in 1782, Rousseau inserted a few short minor additions into the text. These are included here but are not indicated. The resource is available via the Oxford Text Archive (OTA) website, and can be downloaded as a zipped HTML file.
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Dualist, The
http://www.stanford.edu/group/dualist/
The Dualist is an ejournal of the best in undergraduate philosophy writing. The journal is not simply the home page of a philosophy student eager to publish her work. Instead, The Dualist is a high-quality refereed journal that solicits papers, thereby allowing undergraduates to publish their work in a respectable, scholarly environment. The magazine is primarily dedicated to essays in analytic philosophy, but there are also interviews with major thinkers, and occasional forays into Continental thought. With its commitment to the best writing, The Dualist will be of interest to undergraduates studying philosophy, literature or politics.
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Emmanuel Lévinas page
http://polylogos.org/philosophers/levinas/levinas-e.html
This website is dedicated to Lithuanian-born Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas (1906-1995). Famous for the assertion that ethics should replace ontology as 'first philosophy,' Lévinas' works have been influential for a generation of French philosophers including Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion. This gateway to further Lévinas resources on the web has been compiled by a Japanese enthusiast, Gen Nakayama, and contains much useful information, including: a comprehensive bibliography of Lévinas' writings, a biography written by Levinas' step-son Georges Hansel, as well as links to sites grouped under such subject headings as: Judaism, Anti-Semitism, and Holocaust. Although not a comprehensive scholarly guide to online Lévinas resources, this site does contain some helpful introductory material not found elsewhere on the Internet.
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Emmanuel Levinas Web page
http://home.pacbell.net/atterton/levinas/
The Emmanuel Levinas Web Page provides an overview of the life and work of the Lithuanian-born philosopher and Talmudic commentator, who lived from 1906 to 1995. The site offers a list of Levinas's own works, plus an extensive and regularly updated bibliography of secondary literature. An announcements section provides details of relevant conferences and other events, and for those who would like to explore the subject further, there is a short list of links to resources elsewhere on the Web. The site is maintained by Peter Atterton of San Diego State University.
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Essays in philosophy
http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~essays/
This ejournal (ISSN 1526-0569), published biannually, devotes each issue to a specific topic (recent topics include Business Ethics; The Philosophy of Language; and Civil Disobedience). Essays in Philosophy claims to follow 'no specific school of thought, mode of philosophizing, or style of writing', and although recent issues generally follow the Anglo-American tradition, there are essays in the Continental tradition covering such thinkers as Hegel, Husserl and Derrida. Published by the Philosophy Department of Humboldt State University, the journal announces topics for upcoming issues one year in advance. The site also contains a large number of book reviews.
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European society for analytic philosophy
http://www.dif.unige.it/esap/
This is the homepage of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy (ESAP). Founded in 1991 by Kevin Mulligan, the organisation aims to serve as a forum that brings together analytic philosophers from across Europe through initiatives like conferences; workshops; an official journal (Dialectica); newsletters; and mailing lists. This website makes available past and upcoming news about these activities; as well as information about the society's history and statute, its steering committee and list of members (institutional and individual). The society is based at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Geneva.
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Fenomenolsko drustvo : phainomena
http://www.fenomenolosko-drustvo.si/
The site of the Phenomenological Society of Ljubljana is a fascinating gateway to Eastern European work on the post-Husserlian and post-Heideggerian philosophical tradition. The main aim of the society is to promote phenomenological and hermeneutic discussions on culture and science, and to this end the society, aided by its website, has been publishing its own book collection and journal entitled Phainomena (ISSN 1318-3362). The journal was the first specialised publication on phenomenological and hermeneutic philosophy in Middle and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It acts as a forum for phenomenologists in the region, and facilitates collaboration with philosophers from North and South America, Japan, China and Africa. The website provides administrative information about the Society and its journal, and also a list of contents and abstracts of past issues. The site can be viewed in both Slovenian and English. This site will be of interest to scholars of Continental philosophy who wish to open up global perspectives on this world-orientated thought.
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Film-philosophy
http://www.film-philosophy.com/
This is the website for the online journal 'Film Philosophy' (ISSN 1466-4615) and its JISCmail discussion list, film-philosophy@jiscmail.ac.uk, both of which promote "a philosophical view of cinema and film studies" and combine "original review-articles with immediate email response and argument". A substantial resource for both students and researchers interested in Film Studies, philosophical aesthetics and world cinema, 'Film Philosophy' offers scholarly articles, a discussion forum and a gateway to the best of the Web for Film and Cultural Studies in general. The scope of the site is vast. Topics for discussion within the site's journal and email list have included the work of individual filmmakers and critics such as: Jean Baudrillard; Jacques Derrida; Laura Mulvey; Slavoj Zizek; Gilles Deleuze; David Lynch; Lars von Trier; Wim Wenders; Ken Loach; as well as broader consideration of French cinema; German cinema; postmodern cinema; horror; the avant-garde; documentary, and so on. Post-modernist and post-structuralist thinking and references abound, but there are also nods to Plato (428-347 BCE), Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677), Marxism, and psychoanalysis, to name but a few. The site consists of three main sections: a journal with film and book reviews, and articles; a 'salon' or email list (which also includes the journal texts and responses to them); and a portal containing news of events and publications, and extensive links to other philosophy and cinema-related sites. The complete archive contents of the journal and the salon are freely and openly available. Instructions for joining the discussion list or receiving the digest version, and for contributing book reviews and articles, are given. This site would be of interest to students and researchers in aesthetics, cultural studies, or film theory, or to the philosophically-minded film-buff in search of an intellectual perspective on the medium.
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Foucault studies
http://www.foucault-studies.com/
'Foucault Studies' is a peer reviewed electronic journal devoted to the work of French thinker, Michel Foucault. This bi-annual online publication aims to be a discussion forum that explores the impact of Foucault's work (such as the less well-known 1994 publication in French of a four-volume collection of shorter writings and the publications of lectures). The journal invites contributions from across the disciplines to reflect the range of Foucault's impact and applicability. As well as articles, the journal aims to publish translations of some of Foucault's shorter essays, together with book reviews and conference reports. The inaugural issue of the journal features articles on: Foucault and Left Conservatism, and Foucault as a virtue ethicist, as well as a translation of the essay Crisis of Medicine, or Anti-Medicine, reviews and an introduction to two extensive bibliographical resources on the Michel Foucault: Resources website. Abstracts for articles are provided, and all contributions to the journal are available as PDFs. Full submission details are available; all submissions must be in English.
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Foundations of political theory
http://www.political-theory.org/
Foundations of Political Theory is a specialist section of the American Political Science Association (APSA). This website outlines the purpose of the organization and its bylaws, and offers links to a number of online resources useful for the study of political theory. These include: journals and texts; newsletters; and course syllabi (although quite a number of the links were not active at the time of review). Access is also given to the home pages of organizations and research institutes. Details of forthcoming conferences, events and job vacancies are also provided, but the site does not appear to be regularly updated. The organization is chaired by Michael Gibbons of the University of South Florida.
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Glossary-guide for translating Husserl (GTH)
http://www.filosoficas.unam.mx/~gth/gthii.htm
GTH is an online glossary for translating the works of philosopher Edmund Husserl (1859-1958), founder of the branch of philosophy known as phenomenology. The glossary takes the form of a database, accessible both online and available to download free of charge. Work on the database is ongoing and the primary aim is to establish and maintain a glossary to translate Husserl's works into Spanish. However, much work has also gone into providing a glossary for translating Husserl into English, French, Italian, Catalan, and Portuguese. While still a work in progress, the GTH represents a useful tool for postgraduate researchers of Husserl. Contributions to the site are welcomed and its authors regularly update information held on the database.
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Gnosis
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~gnosis/Gnosis/
This is the website of Gnosis, which is a philosophy journal founded in 1973 by graduate students at Concordia University's Department of Philosophy. It publishes articles and book reviews written by students from Concordia and elsewhere on matters that span the whole range of philosophical topics and positions. This website gives viewers an opportunity to access without charge all works published since 2000. They can also find the journal's submission guidelines and information about its editorial board. The following are amongst the works published: 'Problems with John Rawls' The Law of Peoples'; 'Is Bergsonian Metaphysics Antithetical to a Positive Understanding of Language?'; and 'McGinn's Theory of Consciousness and Searle's Indignant Response. This should be a useful resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Philosophy.
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Habermas forum
http://www.habermasforum.dk/
The Habermas forum was started in 2001 by a group of professors from Denmark and Norway interested in sharing ideas and resources about the work of philosopher and critical theorist, Jürgen Habermas. The website aims to bring those interested in Habermas together to gather information about books, reviews and events. There are bibliographies of Habermas's writings, and a short biography (in Danish). Links are provided to several online texts, mostly articles written by Habermas or interviews he has given. These are generally hosted on external sites and are written in various languages. Several have been translated into English. There is also an online newsletter, which readers can sign up to hear about via email.
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Hegel.net
http://www.hegel.net/
The Hegel.net website is dedicated to the life and thought of the nineteenth-century German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831). Created to support research both within and outside of the academic community, it provides a range of resources, including articles; a list of FAQs; a Hegel gallery; and information on other contemporary thinkers. Sections labelled Works, Phenomenology, Nature, and Spirit are accessible from any other page on the site via a handy links bar at the top of the screen, and contain discussion of Hegel's main works. Perhaps most usefully, the site includes links to all major collections of e-texts relating to Hegel, including primary and secondary resources. A helpful bibliography is provided and mailing list/discussion forums are available for those who wish to participate further.
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Illuminations : the critical theory web site
http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/
Illuminations: the Critical Theory Web Site is a small but interesting site dedicated to the Frankfurt School critical theorists. Illuminations itself does not carry any texts by the theorists themselves, perferring to provide links to pages that do. However, there are extended articles and monographs on those associated with the Frankfurt School, such as Theodore Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse and Jurgen Habermas. Indeed, possibly the most interesting aspect of the site is the engaged writing by its editors and contributors. Ben Agger, Douglas Kellner, Steven Best and Stephen Bonner obviously consider themselves to be the 'new generation' of Frankfurt School theorists. This alone makes Illuminations more lively and committed than sites given over to intellectual curation and the 'Frankfurt industry'. Researchers as well as undergraduates will find this site and its excellent links indispensible.
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