Longing for Eternity

Eternity is a property that substance and modes have in common. Spinoza posits in E5p23 that “the human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed with the body, but something of it remai...

This chapter explores the meaning and importance of the question “What is time?” in the phenomenological philosophies of Husserl, Heidegger, and Levinas. As developed in this chapt...

This chapter looks at the oral history that developed around the Northern Maine lynching. In spring 1873 James Cullen, possibly the only lynching victim in New England's history, s...

This chapter presents an original interpretation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s classic play Huis Clos (also known as No Exit and In Camera). The protagonists are usually understood to be i...

Abstract The correspondence between Leibniz and Samuel Clarke was the most influential philosophical exchange of the eighteenth century, and indeed one of the most s...