Category: Authors
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Op zoek naar de verhalen van de FFTR
Een interview met drs. Ignace de Haes over het boek Denkers en Duiders: Een eeuw Nijmeegse filosofie, theologie en religiewetenschappen in honderd verhalen “Heb je al gehoord …”, “Wat er gister toch is gebeurd …”, “Wat ik nu toch weer heb meegemaakt …”: Deze en soortgelijke zinnen hoor je de hele dag door. Mensen vertellen…
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Off the Record with Marilyn Kallasse
Marilyn Kallasse is a woman on a mission. She’s a 21-year-old international student from Estonia. Not content with simply studying PPS, she is the Chair of F.C. Sophia, and can often be found working at the Coffee Corner at the UB. Rather than starting by asking you for a fun fact about yourself, can you…
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Into the Black Hole with Jonathan Zackor
The Valkhof Museum’s exhibition ‘Into the Black Hole’ opened in October of 2023, to much fanfare. Students from Radboud University (such as our very own Laura Schranz!) participated as ‘public-in-residence’ to co-design the exhibition alongside the Valkhof museum. I decided to interview Jonathan Zackor, a Master’s student in Tourism and Culture at Radboud, who was…
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Towards a Decolonial Ecology
Indigenous Conceptualizations of, and Cosmological Relationships to, the Natural World Like Creation stories everywhere, cosmologies are a source of identity and orientation to the world. We are inevitably shaped by them no matter how distant they may be from our consciousness. One story leads to the generous embrace of the living world, the other to…
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What You See, When You Close Your Eyes
Book Review of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I would have liked to begin this story in the manner of a fairy tale. I would have liked to write: ‘Once upon a time there was a little prince who lived on a planet scarcely bigger than himself, and who was in need of…
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Philosopher on the Job: An Interview with Lisa Doeland on Careers in Academic Philosophy
It is that time of year again when many students are graduating and thinking about their next steps into the world of employment, taxes, and other aspects of life after university. By now, I ought to be used to the jokes I hear about philosophers struggling to find their place in the world after their…
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Het applaus en de schilder
Geïnspireerd op de filosofie van het applaus van Cornelis Verhoeven. Welk dier is de mens toch, dat het zijn voorste poten tegen elkaar slaat, wanneer het iets mooi vindt? (Verhoeven 1969, 139-154) Wat achterblijft als het applaus uitblijft is leegte. Stukgeslagen verlossing. Een aangapende ruimte die aarzelt. De stilte moeten verduren. Het slot als open…
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Philosopher Abroad: Philosophies of Life
In Luang Prabang, Laos, I first learned that the word philosophy does not have a universal meaning. I was in Luang Prabang for an internship for about five weeks in 2019. During this time I regularly visited a center where travelers, expats and English-speakers went to speak with young locals. The purpose of the center…
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Telling Non-Human Stories
Writing and reading narratives show us what other possible ways of encountering the world are possible, thereby potentially transfiguring our own ways of engaging with the world around us. Implicated in narrative, therefore, we find a transformative potential. Few problems faced by humanity require such a drastic change in engaging with the world as climate…