Zizek and Hegel Zizek is famously a Hegelian. His interpretation of Hegel’s dialectic is that the negation (or antithesis) does not just heal the break created, but removes the frame within which the antithesis appears as ‘merely’ a break. ‘ “Negation of negation” is . . . nothing but repetition at its purest…

Zizek in How to Read Lacan does not merely articulate the philosophy of Lacan but adds his own philosophical slant. The book begins with a description of a major development that occurred at the turn of the millennium in the year 2000. With new advances in the brain sciences, there…

Below are excerpts from Surprised by Joy, by C.S. Lewis. I feared for my soul; especially on certain blazing moonlight nights in that curtainless dormitory-how the sound of other boys breathing in their sleep comes back! The effect, so far as I can judge, was entirely good. I began seriously…

Why Materialism is Baloney is an original and engaging work. Bernardo Kastrup neatly pokes glaring holes in the dominant scientific narrative of our age: materialism. Below are some highlights. There’s No Consciousness, Obviously In the pursuit of an external truth, scientistic materialism has forgotten the internal, most fundamental reality of human existence: we can…

Life After Life by Raymond Moody explores near-death experiences (NDE’s). Throughout his conversations with several people who have reported these experienced, Moody has drawn several interesting comparisons. …

The Evolution of Desire by David Buss discusses the different mating strategies implemented by men and women based on evolutionary psychology. Regardless of what men and women are wired to desire, there are still many ambiguities concerning the right strategy to choose, such a strategy is informed by geographical location…

The Craving Mind is a book about meditation. Judson’s background as a scientist and researcher is juxtaposed against his interest in meditation. The first part of the book is the story of how he came to embrace meditation as a source of healing. …

The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker is about the nature of the human mind. Throughout history, there have been many different conceptualizations about the human mind, and these have had real consequences of politics, law, ethics, relationships, and religion. …

The Next Decade is a book about geopolitics by George Friedman, author of The Next 100 Years. Overview Most people think that the longer the time frame, the more unpredictable the future. I take the opposite view. Individual actions are the hardest thing to predict. …