Concepts

Explore philosophical concepts, their meanings in different languages, explanations and sources.

Flaneur

An observer who reads the modern city through crowds, consumption and everyday experience.

In Bourdieu, dispositions formed through social experience that orient perception and action.

An itinerary from Spinoza’s immanent causation to Deleuze’s ethical and conceptual reinterpretation.

A critique of reason reduced to calculating efficient means for given ends.

Frenkel-Brunswik’s inquiry into rigid responses to ambiguous situations.

In Benjamin, a present that opens past possibilities and interrupts homogeneous time.

Habermas’s account of coordinating action through mutual understanding.

An approach examining knowledge’s social conditions alongside possibilities of emancipation.

Cultural production organized through profit, standardization, and promised individuality.

Past experience arising through sensory encounters rather than deliberate recollection in Proust.

Scholem’s investigation of historical forms and crises of messianic expectation.

Baudelaire’s relation between transient contemporary experience and artistic form.