Concepts

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

Negative Dialektik

Adorno’s dialectical approach to objects not exhausted by their concepts.

Arendt’s account of sharing a common world through both equality and distinction.

Kirchheimer’s comparative analysis of legal procedures used for political ends.

In Benjamin and Lacis, permeability between architecture, everyday life and public space.

In Spinoza, a being’s power to act and produce effects.

Desire as productive material and social connections in Deleuze and Guattari.

Fromm’s account of character orientations shaped by shared conditions of life.

In Benjamin, a work’s capacity to continue its life through relations with other languages.

Human relations experienced as independent things or unchanging rules.

In Freud, keeping a conflicting drive-representative from consciousness while its effects persist.

Brecht’s theatrical rendering of the familiar as questionable and changeable.

In Aristotle, a cause that explains why something exists or changes.