Join us! Join them! Join yourself! Delighted to contribute as a keynote speaker to the International Conference on Philosophical Counseling, University of Delhi, India, 14-16 January 2022, organised by Professor Balaganapathi Devarakonda and colleagues.

in CHOICE MAGAZINE, Copyright American Library Association. This slim volume of philosophical musings masquerading as a cultural history of neon lighting is reminiscent of Jean Baudrillard’s America (1988). Like Baudrillard, Miranda draws metaphoric significance from contemporary technology and delivers scintillating but quirky pronouncements. Regarding the incandescent light bulb, for example, he remarks that “by domesticating…

My book on esprit de corps is out in paperback next week. Daily Philosophy magazine did this interview: https://daily-philosophy.com/interview-luis-de-miranda-esprit-de-corps/

Everything is creation. Nothing is inert. Everything is constantly blossoming, not only the flower but also the industrial building that I see outside of the train’s window. The world is anthesis, which means that the synthesis of all beings is blossoming, phaino, crealing. Things and beings are constantly phenomenalizing themselves, not out of themselves, but out…

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible Living Edition | Editors: Vlad Petre Glăveanu (Editor-in-Chief) Philosophical Health, by Luis de Miranda Abstract/Summary In the last decades of the twentieth century, the first contemporary “philosophical counselors” started to appear in Europe and the USA, sometimes equating the idea of “philosophical health” with “spiritual health” or “therapy for the sane,” thus…

Nicholas came to me because he was disappointed with Jordan Peterson’s realistic advices (get a job, don’t dream, etc), which he tried to apply but which, Nicholas said, shut down his spirituality. Here is what a Philosophical Counseling session can look like. Sessions at the Philosophical Parlour are all different, and yet humans from all…