Monthly Archives: November 2011
Jonathan Rée – Dissing God | New Humanist
The Book of Genesis is a bedtime soporific, not a page-turner. God, says Jonathan Rée, is the death of narrative, and narrative the death of God…
Levinas Teaching Question
Over on the Facebook page of this site, Charles Comer asks: Charles Comer: Does anyone teach Levinas in lower level ethics? If so, what reading do you use? Click here… Read more
Albert Camus (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Albert Camus (1913–1960) was a journalist, editor and editorialist, playwright and director, novelist and author of short stories, political essayist and activist—and arguably, although he came to deny it, a… Read more
New Book: Lives on the Left: Interviews with New Left Review
Voices of Sartre, Lukács, Chomsky, Harvey and others in conversation with New Left Review. The extended critical interview is especially flexible as a form, by turns tenacious and glancing,… Read more
LENIN’S TOMB: Louis Althusser and socialist strategy
I need to address the influence of Louis Althusser. There is, as Ellen Meiksins Wood has pointed out, a trajectory that can broadly be sketched with Althusser, Poulantzas and… Read more
Dabashi: Slavoj Zizek and Harum Scarum
In Gene Nelson’s “Harum Scarum” (1965), featuring Elvis Presley as the Hollywood heartthrob Johnny Tyronne, we meet the action movie star travelling through the Orient while promoting his new film,… Read more
Call for Papers/Abstracts: Virtue Ethics
We seek original essays that focus on virtue ethics within the phenomenological tradition or utilizing the phenomenological method. Although virtue ethics is a tradition that is well suited to the… Read more