A homage in the guise of an essay, this is the story of the last course Reiner Schürmann taught. As a text, it attempts to describe, situate, and come to terms with the power of Schürmann’s teaching in the context of his last lectures on Heidegger’s Being and Time. But if it is to be true to the deepest lessons of Schürmann’s thinking, it will als…[Read more]

Although Aristotle is often thought to give canonical voice to the priority of vision as the most noble of the human powers of perceiving, this article demonstrates that in Aristotle, touch has a priority vision lacks. By tracing the things Aristotle says about touch in the De Anima and specifically the manner in which he identifies touch as a…[Read more]

Following the scent of wolves and dogs in Plato’s Republic, this essay attempts to track a path that leads us to one of the central teachings of the text itself: that the philosophical life is situated precariously between the tyrannical tendencies of the wolf and the blind obedience of the well-trained dog.

Reviews of Tyson Lewis’s book “On Study.”

How a pedagogy of study can work against the neoliberal university, from a psychoanalytic-Marxist perspective.

A history of the horizontal pedagogy workshop, which took place in Trump Tower as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City.

An argument for rethinking online discussion as an entirely different form of interaction than in-person discussion.

Application of Avital Ronnell’s theory of the “test drive” to high-stakes standardized testing in K-12 schooling.

A practical and poetic guide to facilitating discussions.