The Council of Ferrara-Florence, held from 1438 to 1445 in, not surprisingly, the Italian cities of Ferrara and Florence, had as one...

The German-born cultural philosopher Jean Gebser (1905-1973) was one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century. Yet aside from...

Sometime in the 1940s, the behavioural psychologist Abraham Maslow had what then seemed a radically new idea. He decided to study healthy...

In his debut book, The Outsider, the twenty-four year old British existentialist Colin Wilson made his first attempt at analysing a...

A question that will become more and more dominant as the century goes on is the question of what it means to be human. We are already...

Sometime in late 1887 or early 1888, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche – unread, unwell, and practically unknown at the time– had an...

It's odd writing about yourself in the third person, but the fierce competition for attention these days demands one make things as easy...