Philosophy

Rediscovering the late, great philosopher Henri Lefebvre, whose ideas are increasingly relevant to contemporary life

Timotheus Vermeulen talks to philosopher Rosi Braidotti about the pitfalls of speculative realism

Henry Flynt talks about half a century’s worth of wildly divergent activities

Imagination, football and the Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe

Erik Morse on the translation into English of a 52-part French TV programme featuring philosopher Gilles Deleuze

Throughout the 1990s, the rise of neo-conceptual art coincided with an increasing engagement with theory as a generator of ideas. Did that interest wane, or did it take on new forms in the years that followed? A look back at the last two decades in philosophy

After the opening last year of the Lee Ufan Museum – a collaboration with the architect Tadao Ando on Naoshima Island, Japan – and ahead of his largest retrospective to date, at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Lee Ufan talks to Melissa Chiu about his five decades as an artist, writer and philosopher

Dan Fox talks to Simon Critchley about community, avant-garde rituals and being ‘religious without religion’

French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy talks about subjects ranging from everyday life to film, the body and the soul

Michel Serres, one of the most influential and eccentric of French philosophers, turns 80

A round table discussion led by Jörg Heiser on ‘super-hybridity’: what is it and should we be worried? With Ronald Jones, Nina Power, Seth Price, Sukhdev Sandhu and Hito Steyerl

Peter Sloterdijk talks about the phenomena of chemical warfare, designer ventilation and high-density urban living

The evolution of theory and its impact on contemporary thought

Vladimir Solovyov is now – thanks to Lenin’s censorship – the most important philosopher you’ve never heard of

An essay exploring how thinkers like Gilles Deleuze and Susan Sontag have shaped interpretations and misinterpretations of contemporary art

Four leading teachers from universities and art schools around the world reflect on the importance of theory for students today

Boris Groys in conversation with Brian Dillon

Simon Critchley (Granta, London, 2008)

A recent conference at the LSE suggested new ways of dealing with the legacy of continental philosophy

A new anthology of Rimbaud's work