Post-Trump, even my cheeriest students finally ‘get’ Kafka

Existentialism may now seem more relevant to philosophy undergraduates, but a woeful John Kaag shares their mood of blank despair 

Published on
January 19, 2017
Last updated
July 26, 2017
Rob Dobi illustration (19 January 2017)
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Reader's comments (2)

I was a philophy student but found out too late that it was simply a fog bank full of lost souls trying to explain what was already in place, western society piggy-backed on the Greek philosophers. I switched to natural philosophy, geology and have been fully stimulated ever since.
I've been thinking about this question too long. And what now? Will our life changes on better side? Let's just think about what already been done - http://merehead.com/

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