The Enlightenment legacy is under siege. Defend it.

Description Linker defines Enlightenment legacies as “individualism, international commerce and trade, moral cosmopolitanism, freedom of the press and a culture of publicity, technological modernity, the valorization of expertise” and defends them against conservative and anti-globalist […]

Machine and Organism

Description Canguilhem inverts the normal scientific question–what is the mechanism underlying this organic process?–and asks how machines are organic. He traces the history of the relationships between organism and machine from the ancient Greek political […]