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The Politicization of Anti-Empathy in Christian Evangelical and White Nationalist circles.
--- This piece picks up where “The Christian Right’s Anti-Empathy Crusade I” leaves off. You might want to read that first. Stuckey’s Toxic Empathy (2024) Allie Beth Stuckey is a conservative...
20 self-help books paired with revolutionary theory books you could be reading instead.
--- The modern self-help movement emerged in the late 60’s and early 70’s as a part of the feminist movement. Activists like Audre Lorde framed self-care as political resistence, essential to...
The Politicization of Anti-Empathy in Christian Evangelical and White Nationalist circles.
--- This piece picks up where “Dangerous Feelings” left off. You might want to read that first. --- Paul Bloom’s book Against Empathy was not published by an academic publisher that would vet the...
The dirty logic underwriting the right-wing war on empathy.
--- This piece examines how Paul Bloom, in his book Against Empathy, uses a rhetorical strategy called dissociation to cut a distinction between cognitive and emotional empathy, to disparage...
The origins of the war on empathy is rooted in an ugly objective neutrality.
--- Prior in this Empathy series: --- Today, I’d like to begin to tell you the story of how those on the religious right (Christian, Evangelical, Nationalists) have mounted the war on empathy over...
What is happening with Empathy is a great case study for understanding the current ideological battle for our humanity. This is a long foot note to part one linked below.
--- Before in the series: --- “…part of what the Christian argument against empathy is is to say that empathy is different from that… It's not just compassion. It's not just sympathy. It's something...
Today, we start a new series enlisting Philosophy in the fight for Empathy and Care.
You might be surprised to learn that the word “empathy” is a fairly new addition to the English language. It was suggested as a translation for the German term einfühlung (“a feeling into”) by...
Re-reading Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto in light of Yasha Levine's Surveillance Valley.
I first encountered Donna Haraway's “A Cyborg Manifesto” in a feminist epistemologies seminar in the early 1990s. At that time, we felt that we were on the cusp of something new, and her writing...
I’ve scheduled a live for this Wednesday, April 2 at 1pm EST, on Audre Lorde’s “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action.” You can easily find a copy of this text online, and above I’ve...
A beginner-friendly introduction to Fanon and postcolonial theory.
Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth is a brilliant yet deeply unsettling account of the psychological and social effects of colonization on oppressed peoples. Born in Martinique and trained as a...
--- Mindscaping Philosophy Journal Prompt: Imagine a world where experiences serve as currency that you can trade with others. Once traded, these experiences leave your memory completely. Which...
A demystifying introduction to Martin Heidegger's early magnum opus.
It is hard to overstate the importance of Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time. It turned the world of philosophy upside down and inaugurated existentialist phenomenology, existentialism, philosophical...
Mindscaping Philosophical Journal. Volume One, April 2025
Hello Frens, Exciting news! The first volume of Mindscaping, A Philosophical Journal is now available. As a paid subscriber to Philosophy Publics, you're getting exclusive access to this new resource...
A meditation on present absences inspired by Google Says I’m the First Iraqi Female Philosopher - Really? by Rasha Barrage
“Across nations and cultures, entire words and ideas are missing or deprived of the weight they deserve. The presence of absence is just as powerful as the spread of misinformation or false news....
A recording from Mona Mona's live video on Library of America panel on What is Totalitarianism? by Hannah Arendt.
Thank you , , , , and many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. We delve into the six characteristics of totalitarianism as discussed by Seyla Benhabib,...
Jean Paul Sartre’s “The Look” in Being and Nothingness and the problem of the Other
What follows is an exegetical account of Jean Paul Sartre’s section “The Look” from Being and Nothingness. In this section, Sartre explains how our encounter with the Other challenges our own sense...
Notes from today's talk on _What Is Totalitarianism? Understanding Hannah Arendt Now_
As a group, we attended a panel and discussion hosted by the Library of America billed as follows: “The rise of totalitarian governments,” Hannah Arendt wrote, “is the central event of our world.”...
Friendship allows for shared standpoints, and gives us access to new insights about ourselves, others, and the world that expands our horizons, and our hearts.
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A recording from Philosophy Publics Unplugged with yours truly, Mona Mona.
Thank you for those of you who made it to this Philosophy Publics Unplugged live. Join me for the next live on Wednesdays at 12noon EST. In this episode, we delve into the concept of intuition and...
New subscriber Discord server, Substack Lives, Ask Me Anything, Round-ups, and continuing to think about Friendship.
Dear Frens, Looking back at the past couple weeks, we have been very busy! First, I launched our private subscriber 1. Discord Server where we have been discussing all the things and getting to...