Last year, in an eye-opening essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the writer David Tompkins connected VanderMeer's trilogy to the "hyperobject," a philosophical concept invented by the eco-philosopher Timothy Morton.
What is meant by its central philosophical concept of "absolute nothingness," and how did the Kyoto School philosophers variously develop this Eastern inspired idea in dialogue and debate with Western thought and with one another?
Strauss was circling a philosophical concept called moral luck.
Essence is a philosophical concept, however, not a historical one.
In a way, it is both a philosophical concept and a literary style.
Dao is a philosophical concept that is multifaceted and has several interpretations.
These aesthetic qualities are seen to embody the philosophical concept of the mutability of all things.
Part of this problem has to do with the philosophical concept of ownership.
But Sartre's was a philosophical concept, perhaps because of the helplessness of the French in the face of Nazi Germany.
Existential angst, whatever Sartre may have said while showing off … was not merely a philosophical concept but a reality".
The report pushes what it calls a "social compact" – an invented term, not the philosophical concept of old.
