Here you may find links to some of my published and unpublished articles in philosophy, political economy, semiotics, musicology, etc.
I graduated with a Master’s Degree, in Social and Moral Philosophy, from the University of Helsinki (2015). I have a Bachelor of Arts degree, in English Philology, from the same university (2009).
I am currently writing my PhD in Political Economy at King’s College London (2016-2019). (Curriculum Vitae, 2015: download here.)
I have highlighted in bold articles that I consider to be my best.
I have marked with asterisks* the articles which have been published in scientific journals, anthologies, etc.)
1. Philosophy (Social and Moral) and Political Economy
Otto Lehto – The Limited Welfare State as Utopia – The Case for a Libertarian Basic Income
Otto Lehto – Was Adam Smith a Classical Liberal?
Otto Lehto – Reason and Madness in the Holocaust (BA Thesis in English Philology, Uni. of Helsinki)*
Otto Lehto – Performing Culture and Breaking Rules*
Otto Lehto – Comparisons of the Nature of Law and Duty in Hobbes and Kant
Otto Lehto – Socializing Liberty and Liberalizing Society – Rawls, Sen and Nussbaum
2. Philosophy (General), Semiotics and Metaphysics
Otto Lehto – Studying the Cognitive States of Animals: Epistemology, Ethology and Ethics (printed version)*
Otto Lehto – Nothingness as Nihilism – Karatani Kojin and Nishitani Keiji
Otto Lehto – The Background and Implications of John McDowell’s (2009) Revised Theory of Perception
Otto Lehto – Humanism, Existentialism, Semiotics*
Otto Lehto – The Transparency of Light – Our Crystalline Society
Otto Lehto – Cosmologies of Life after Peirce, Heidegger and Darwin
3. Arts and Aesthetics
Otto Lehto – Music’s Pre-Existence as Ideal Sound: The Pythagorean Legacy in Music*
Otto Lehto – Transgressions and Regressions: The Rigidification of Form as Genre-Genesis
Otto Lehto – The Cinema of David Lynch
Otto Lehto – Kommentteja Wagnerista (in Finnish)
Otto Lehto – The Hermeneutics of Kurt Cobain
Otto Lehto – Minimalism, Philip Glass & Electronic Aesthetics
Otto Lehto – Eco, Derrida, Joyce, Borges – Interpretation and Hallucination
Otto Lehto – The Hero Myth and the Apocalypse in Alan Moore’s “Watchmen”
Otto Lehto – The Ghosts of Derrida
Otto Lehto – Beckett’s Fatal Silence
Otto Lehto – St. David [a short story]
4. Miscellaneous Papers
Otto Lehto – The Seven Veils of Ishtar and the Ten Sefirot of Israel
Otto Lehto – On The Frontiers of Psychology – A Dialogue on the Practice and Malpractice of Power
Otto Lehto – Imperialism & Perpetual Revolution – The Radical Lure of the Empire