Famous German philosopher Karl Marx referred to the cycles of history once and said: “History repeats itself first as tragedy, second as farce.” In contemporary discourse, the 1970s and 1980s marked themselves as the important decades of the recent history for various reasons. First, the prolonged war in Vietnam ended, which brought the US and […]
Post-Feminism: Against Patriarchy or Men?
“We are still not enlightened but we are living in the age of enlightenment.” These are the words of the Renaissance philosopher Immanuel Kant. It is a fact that Renaissance was self-conscious and was a new dawn in the history of Europe that resulted in the liberation of reason from the tyranny of medieval scholasticism. […]
The new world disorder and the far right
In Greek mythology there is a story about Zeus, the father of Greek gods, releasing two eagles, one at each end of the world and commanding them to fly at each other. A sacred stone, called omphalos (the navel of the world), was placed where they met. It enabled communication with the divine. Following the […]
Russia’s obsession or geographic trap
Vladimir Putin says he is a religious man, a great supporter of the Russian Orthodox church. If so, he may well, go to bed each night, say his prayers, and ask God: “Why didn’t you put some mountains in Ukraine”. These are the famous words of Tim Marshall in his famous book “Prisoners of geography”. […]
Communism is returning to China
“Dynasties begin with the very virtuous and noble founder, and then they continue through a series of rulers until they come to a bad last ruler, and he is so morally depraved that he is overthrown.” These are the famous words of Famous grand Chinese historian Sima Qian. After, British colonization China suffered from opium […]
Fourth political theory: the quest for Eurasianism
The past is a Foreign country, these are the famous words of V.I Hartley but future is a quest; a quest for destiny, a quest for identity and a quest for order. History has always been ambiguous because facts are hard to establish, and reality is built on prejudices, misconception and ignorance of our perception […]
Nietzscheanism: A diverse method in philosophy
Frederich Nietzsche regards the extremist form of Nihilism; the insight that every belief, ever taken for true (Fur-Wahr-Halten), is necessarily false because there is no true world at all. Nihilism explicitly rejects the correspondence theory of truth because Nietzsche was having a thoroughly disillusioned conception of the world, which is as hostile to human aspirations […]
Nietzsche and contemporary history
Nietzsche contends that history can play three important roles, which he terms as ‘Monumental’, ‘Antiquarian’ and ‘Critical’. In this way, ‘Monumental history’ brings the great achievements of humanity into focus. This gear of history is important for individuals because it makes them aware of what is possible for human beings to achieve. Likewise, ‘Antiquarian history’ […]
Understanding ideology
The word ideology is largely being used in social sciences, in politics, and in mass media since 20th century. Basically, ideology is an intricate rapport between human cognition and social conditions that gives it emergence at different junctures of history. Scholars have developed two distinct approaches to study ideology. The first approach studies the ideas […]
Islam between Culture and politics
Islam is both cultural and faith system but not a political ideology (Politicization). The politicization of Islam in past decades had created a distinction between Islam as religion and cultural system and the use of Islamic cultural symbols for the political purpose gave rise to resurgent Islamism. Basically, Political Islam comes out of the crisis […]