Justin Carmien·Sep 14, 2025A Case Against Compassion: Interrogating Schopenhauer’s On the Basis of MoralityI guess that each of you can attest to experiencing compassion for human animals, and likely for most non-human animals as well. After all…
Justin Carmien·Jun 26, 2024Karl Marx and the Divination of a Progressive RightIn an article published on March 19th 2024, Why the Left Should Reject Heidegger’s Thought, Part One: The Question of Being, Colin Bodayle…
Justin Carmien·Mar 21, 2024A Response to Bonnitta Roy’s “Why Metaphysics Matters”In a journal entry published to The Pop-Up School on February 4th 2024, Bonnitta Roy introduced the series “Why Metaphysics Matters, A…
Justin Carmien·Dec 3, 2023A Metamodern Understanding of TimeIn the 1999 book Heidegger’s Temporal Idealism, William Blattner argued for something quite novel and interesting for his time. Blattner…
Justin Carmien·May 31, 2023Reflections on My Conversation with Aleksandr DuginReflections in this article follow from a conversation with Aleksandr Dugin, recorded on May 27th, 2023. My ambition going into this…
Justin Carmien·Nov 12, 2022Hegel’s Neglect of the PossibleOf principal importance to the metamodern political project is an understanding of both power and history. These two words direct our…
Justin Carmien·Oct 16, 2022A Definitive Introduction to Metamodern MetaphysicsLet us ask a question. Is it accidental that a pronounced moment of post-metaphysical thinking appears alongside the political projects…
Justin Carmien·Oct 13, 2022Heidegger’s Πολις and the “Demonic” Characterization of PowerUnresolved is the popular opinion on Heidegger’s neglect to speak about the horrors committed by the Nazi party, including his neglect to…
Justin Carmien·Jul 25, 2022The “Consummation” and “End” of MetaphysicsAnalyses in a recently published book, Division III of Heidegger’s Being and Time, serve to speculate on reasons why Martin Heidegger might…
