Rob Riemen, an essayist and cultural philosopher, is founder of the Nexus Institute, an international center devoted to intellectual reflection and to inspiring Western cultural and philosophical debate.
Inga, a highly regarded cultural philosopher, shares Erik's fascination with interdisciplinary research on the workings of the brain, thus allowing the erudite Hustvedt to explore larger questions of art and madness, mind and spirit, and the construction of the self.
Cultural Philosopher, Coach, Andragogist.
Except that these weren't concerts so much as happenings: festivals of loops, in which jazzers, rockers, students, poets, filmmakers, acid takers, scholars and cultural philosophers came to be wowed and overcome, or at the least puzzled.
Czech propaganda used the term never to designate politicians, bureaucrats or athletes, 'only the cultural elite: philosophers, writers, professors.' And now there's 'an amazing synchronism.
His grandfather, Jacques Barzun, was a French-born cultural historian and philosopher, who died last year, aged 104.
Peter Sloterdijk is a celebrated and controversial German philosopher, cultural critic and TV host known for his reflections on globalization.
Having considered the subject for the best part of a hundred years, Jacques Barzun — philosopher, cultural historian, educator extraordinaire and all-round public intellectual — appeared convinced: there was nothing to believe in but belief itself.
The Reith Lectures (Tuesday, 9am, Radio 4) of 2016 are given by philosopher, cultural theorist and offspring of the daughter of a British wartime cabinet minister and a Ghanaian independence activist, Kwame Anthony Appiah.
An internationally renowned psychoanalytic philosopher, cultural critic, and Hegelian Marxist, he is the author of numerous books, including Less than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism (Verso, 2012) and Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism (Verso, 2014).
By now Santayana was a highly recognized philosopher, cultural critic, poet, and teacher, and his desire to be free from academic confinement was also well known.
