Michael Millerman

Millerman’s teaching ranges across Plato, Aristotle, Heidegger, Strauss and other political thinkers. His books include Beginning with Heidegger, and his translation work includes seven books by Alexander Dugin. He teaches courses and seminars through his independent school and offers lectures and advising through Millerman Intelligence.[1]

Keep the room fixed and change how it matters

Stimmung presents the same study through anxiety, boredom, wonder and everyday absorption. Switching the attunement changes the interpretation of a lamp, desk or doorway, then links the experience back to philosophical passages. Its machine is a toy using canned sentences, not a conversational model. The instrument makes an interpretation available to inspect and compare with its sources.[5]

Use a forced choice to expose a philosophical tendency

The Philosophical DNA diagnostic asks ten questions across metaphysics, politics, epistemology, technology and human nature. Each choice places competing traditions beside one another. The exercise offers a way into disagreements a reader might want to study, rather than a clinical or validated psychological diagnosis.[6]

In Straussian Witchcraft and the Need for Devils’ Advocates, Millerman asks whether familiar phrases can replace inquiry. He examines how an authoritative vocabulary may narrow a school’s questions, and argues for encounters with less familiar positions. The essay applies critical pressure from within an acknowledged interest in Strauss’s work.[7]