"Zij die menen dat zij hun tenten definitief hebben opgeslagen Jenseits von Gut und Böse zullen het ons, moeizame roeiers, nooit vergeven dat wij anders zijn aangezien wij hun paradijs van de soortmenselijkheid ontmaskeren als een semireligieuze utopie.

Anderzijds zullen zij, die nog steeds Diesseits von Gut und Böse op de terreinen van hun traditionele religies en filosofieën kamperen, het ons evenmin vergeven dat wij ook hun idealen afwijzen.

Want beeld je vooral maar niet in dat één v...

Leo Feyaerts (Dessel, 1945) was a Kempen student in the middle of the Leuven Linguistic Conflict. He obtained a master's degree in Modern History in 1972 and taught at the Episcopal College in Echt (the Netherlands) until his retirement in 2007. In addition to his field of study, his interests include politics, philosophy and literature.

Part I: The introverted Carlo from the Antwerp Kempen region, a student at the Catholic University of Leuven, is drawn into the world of alcohol and women th...

If every signified evoked by reading or hearing any signifier is indeterminate, it makes no sense to formulate a semiotics cum philosophy that attempts to prove the correctness of the proposition that every signified is indeterminate, since that proof uses signifiers.

Those who proclaim as their unshakeable conviction that man (= every human being) is only consciousness, as the most famous structuralists and Derrida with in their wake the deconstructionists do, and that consequently only subj...