Continental philosophers

Slavoj Zizek is a cultural philosopher. He's a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, and international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities of the University of London.

In Poland, it is no secret that the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party is packing governing institutions with its lackeys, misusing public media, rewarding cronies and undermining the independence of the courts.

Nonetheless, PiS trounced Poland's opposition parties in the European Parliament election in May.

Departing from the Derridean concept of "hauntology," Red Bull Art Around Arnavutköy this year is bringing the works of 14 artists together around the theme of "Ghosts." 

The philosopher Julia Kristeva, who has lived in France since 1966, denied being a member of the Bulgarian intelligence services at the time of communism. She did so in a statement to the French weekly L'Obs, which claims to have found her secret agent form, the France press reported.

The government-appointed Committee for Disclosing the Documents and Announcing the Affiliation of Bulgarian Citizens to the State Security and Intelligence Services of the Bulgarian National Army alleged on Tuesday that Julia Kristeva was an agent of the Communist-era security apparatus.

The world-renowned philosopher, psychologist, linguist and researcher, Julia Krasteva, was a collaborator of the First State Department of Foreign Intelligence with the alias Sabina, reports Kapital. 

Providing a definition of the term postmodernism is a futile exercise if attempting to approach from a postmodernist angle.

The French Institute in Athens is hosting French philosopher Alain Badiou on Thursday, May 5, in a lecture titled "What Is Politics Today?" Badiou, formerly chair of Philosophy at the Ecole Normale Superieure, was also a founding member of the faculty of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. The event starts at 7 p.m.

The Monty Python may have hit on part of the reasons for the Greek crisis years before it unfolded in a sketch from 1974 showing the Germans and Greece playing football. In the match, both sides are represented by theif foremost philosophers who do nothing but talk. Finally, Socrates scores goal against Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. German philosophers – G.W.F.

One may or may not like Turkey’s rulers, but you must be fair and admit that they are often fun – unless they do serious things and cause harm. They live in a world of wonders which, for us outsiders, is truly amusing to observe.