Category: Philosophy

  • From Shakuntala to Greek Transformations

    From Shakuntala to Io, mythology makes one truth impossible to ignore: when powerful men cross social boundaries in desire, women pay the price. Abandonment, transformation, and erasure become their fate, while men walk away untouched.

  • Surpanakha’s Mutilation and Eve’s Fall

    Across mythologies, women who express desire outside sanctioned boundaries face brutal correction. From Surpanakha to Eve, transgressive female longing is punished through the body itself.

  • Thinking Through Images: Love on Screen

    Film captures what philosophy keeps escaping, love as lived: embodied, particular, contradictory. Jules et Jim turns theory into flesh, showing how love bends autonomy, dependence, friendship, and freedom into shapes no concept can contain.

  • The Personal as Philosophical: Letters and Desire

    Across centuries, philosophers kept trying to theorise love, yet their own lives kept betraying the theory. From Spinoza’s cosmic intellect to Arendt’s impossible affair, love keeps erupting where philosophy least wants it: in bodies, memories, contradictions, and attachments that refuse abstraction.

  • The Great Retreat: How Philosophy Abandoned the Body

    Western philosophy slowly pushed love to the margins, treating it as a problem to solve, a temptation to tame, or a fantasy to distrust. Yet thinkers from Foucault to Žižek reopen the question, showing love as practice, power, rupture, and the one force that exposes who we are with others.

  • The Symposium

    Plato’s Symposium hides a war between two visions of love: one that climbs toward abstract perfection and one that clings to the messy beauty of real people.

  • Toward a Philosophy of Suffering That Suffers

    What if philosophy stopped treating pain as a puzzle to solve and started treating it as a reality to answer to? The demand is simple and hard at once: think suffering in all its messiness, and let people in pain interrupt, correct, and reshape our concepts.

  • Pedagogy of Loss

    Judith Butler’s idea of “grievable” lives asks a brutal question: whose deaths are allowed to matter, and whose are quietly treated as expendable? From microaggressions and killjoys to collective mourning and Palestine, grief studies shows that pain is never just personal, it’s organised by power.

  • Existentialism

    Existentialism doesn’t try to explain pain away; it asks what we do when pain blows up all our usual meanings. From Sartre and Beauvoir to Camus and today’s Palestine, the real question becomes: whose suffering do we honour with solidarity, and whose do we quietly step around?

  • The Jewish Tradition

    When does someone else’s pain become your responsibility? From Levinas to Judith Butler, and from Auschwitz to Gaza, the struggle is over one brutal question: whose suffering are we willing to see, and whose do we explain away?