Johannes Steizinger

People check their phones as an AI robot looks on at an artificial intelligence conference in September 2023 in Montréal. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

February 3, 2025

Why should humanities education persist in an AI age? Self‑development, to start

Johannes Steizinger, McMaster University

Through self-development, or ‘Bildung’ in German thought, salon culture sought to resist absolutism and foster democratic discourse. This shaped the modern Western university.

It’s more necessary than ever before to re-examine the fundamentals of our economic order. (Shutterstock)

January 4, 2023

How the philosophy of the past can help us imagine the economy of the future

Johannes Steizinger, McMaster University; Helen McCabe, University of Nottingham, and Thimo Heisenberg, Bryn Mawr College

Psychological and social perspectives on economy that were developed by 19th-century philosophers can help us re-imagine economics with a human face.

Giorgia Meloni gestures during the handover ceremony with outgoing Prime Minister Mario Draghi at Chigi Palace in Rome in October 2022. Meloni, whose political party with neo-fascist roots secured the most votes in Italy’s national election in September, took office as the country’s first far-right leader since the end of the Second World War. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

November 2, 2022

Why the ideology of the ‘New Right’ is so dangerous

Johannes Steizinger, McMaster University

The so-called New Right is aiming for an ideological renewal of right-wing politics by focusing on cultural identity and the politics of belonging. Here’s why that’s so ominous.

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Why should humanities education persist in an AI age? Self‑development, to start

How the philosophy of the past can help us imagine the economy of the future

Why the ideology of the ‘New Right’ is so dangerous

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