Political Theory

🇩🇪Jürgen Habermas

Philosophy

Pragmatism

1929–2026

"Critical Theory in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"

🇺🇸Robert Nozick

Philosophy

1938–2002

"A distribution is just if it arises from another just distribution by legitimate means."

🇺🇸Robin Morgan

Literature

b. 1941

"Pornography is the theory, and rape the practice. And what a practice. The violation of an individual woman is the metaphor for man's forcing himself on whole nations , on nonhuman creatures , and on the planet itself ."

🇺🇸Fredric Jameson

Literature

Postmodernism

1934–2024

"If we are unable to unify the past, present, and future of the sentence, then we are similarly unable to unify the past, present, and future of our own biographical experience or psychic life."

"The drama of human rights, then, is that they emerged in the 1970s seemingly from nowhere. If the Soviet Union had generally lost credibility , human rights were not the immediate beneficiaries."

🇺🇸Paul D. Miller (academic)

Politics

"ocialism violates economic freedom, destroys incentive, muffles innovation and entrepreneurship, and undermines meritocracy."

🇺🇸Thomas Nagel

Philosophy

b. 1937

"If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair."