Tom Donovan

Dr. Donovan holds an MA in Philosophy from Michigan State University and a PhD in Philosophy from The University of California, Riverside. For his dissertation he focused on the works of Horkheimer and Adorno, Habermas and Lukács. Tom is chair of Philosophy at Mt. San Jacinto College, where he has been teaching philosophy and humanities for over 15 years.Prof. Donovan is publishing a series of books with Algora that make philosophy accessible and useful for real readers.

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Dialectic of Enlightenment as Sport
The Barbaric Urge within Sports, Religion, and Capitalism
Philosophy teacher Tom Donovan (PhD UCRiverside) offers a fresh reading of Dialectic of Enlightenment, where Horkheimer and Adorno set out to “explain why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism.

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Freud for Thought
On Forging the Philosophical Life
Can one live a philosophical life in a world that has killed God and given the reins of society to what Nietzsche called “the last men”?

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The False Dialectic between Christians and Atheists
Perhaps it’s easier to debate the existence of God than to embrace the uncertainty, curiosity, and responsibility of being human, to take up a new practice of living. Perhaps both are ideological distractions that mystify the nature of reality and what knowledge is.

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