Continental Philosophy

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Introduction to the special issue on continental philosophy of law — Nick Smith

The catechism of the citizen: politics, law and religion in, after, with and against Rousseau — Simon Critchley

The dedifferentiation problem — Pierre Schlag

Bodies against the law: Abu Ghraib and the war on terror — Kelly Oliver

Overblocking autonomy: the case of mandatory library filtering software — Gordon Hull

Commodification in law: ideologies, intractabilities, and hyperboles — Nick Smith

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Antigone’s Laments, Creon’s Grief: Mourning, Membership, and the Politics of Exception — Bonnie Honig

Competition in the Best of Cities: Agonism and Aristotle’s Politics — Steven C. Skultety

Publius and Political Imagination — Jason Frank

The Concept of Private Property and the Limits of the Environmental Imagination — John M. Meyer

Schumpeter’s Leadership Democracy — Gerry Mackie

Why Value Pluralism Does Not Support the State’s Enforcement of Liberal Autonomy: A Response to Crowder — David Thunder

Thunder versus Enlightenment: A response to Thunder — George Crowde

Abstract

Chantal Mouffe’s political philosophy has been influential in a variety of domains, including sociology, cultural studies, media studies, law, art, literary criticism, and journalism studies. By combining Gramsci’s focus on hegemony with post-structuralist theory she has developed – in collaboration with Ernesto Laclau – a sophisticated perspective on the political that intersects with all aspects of society, including the role and functioning of journalism. Her emphasis on the productive role of hegemony and conflict in society combined with her plea for a radical pluralist democracy, open a wide range of new perspectives for journalism studies. We present an overview of Mouffe’s work set against a recent interview with her, in which we discuss, among other things, the potential diversity of contingent journalistic identities, ranging between being complicit with hegemonic socio-political projects, and safe-guarding or even deepening democratic institutions, including itself.

Link

Lefort, C. (1986). The political forms of modern society: beureaucracy, democracy, totalitarianism.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ltt04mzdyzj

h/t: aadkenn

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On Iris Young’s subject of inclusion: Rethinking political inclusion — Marina Falbo

Free speech or equal respect?: Liberalism’s competing values — John William Tate

The status struggle: A recognition-based interpretation of the positional economy — Rutger Claassen

Alain Badiou: the event of becoming a political subject — Antonio Calcagno

Marcuse’s critical theory of modernity — Espen Hammer

Recent articles in Reset:

The Primacy of Perception in the era of communication

A “post-secular” society – What does that mean?, by Habermas

On the Public Spehere, Deliberation, Journalism and Dignity, an interview with Benhabib

Comments on Simon Critchley’s Infinitely Demanding — ALAIN BADIOU (with an introduction by SIMON CRITCHLEY)
Emblems and Cuts: Philosophy in and against History — ALBERTO TOSCANO
“Living with an Idea”: Ethics and Politics in Badiou’s Logiques des mondes — GABRIEL RIERA
From Universality to Equality: Badiou’s Critique of Rancière — JEFF LOVE AND TODD MAY
The Consistency of Inconsistency: Alain Badiou and the Limits of Mathematical Ontology — TZUCHIEN THO
The Scintillation of the Event: On Badiou’s Phenomenology — GERT-JAN VAN DER HEIDEN
What is to be Done? Alain Badiou and the Pre-Evental — NICK SRNICEK
Paulitics — DAN MELLAMPHY AND NANDITA BISWAS MELLAMPHY
Book Panel/Table ronde
Jay Lampert’s Deleuze and Guattari’s Philosophy of History — ALAIN BEAULIEU, FADI ABOU-RIHAN, EUGENE HOLLAND, JAY LAMPERT
Student Essay Prize/Prix-étudiant — The Body as Measurant of All: Dis-covering the World–FLORENTIEN VERHAGE

New issue is out.

Link

(Tip of the hat to linguistic being!)

Balibar, Étienne. “‘Possessive Individualism’ Reversed: From Locke to Derrida.” Constellations 9.3 (2002): 299-317. http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mngt4z0mmtx

____________. “Althusser’s Object” Social Text Summer.39 (1994): 157-188. http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?tte2nkkkxbw

____________. “Difference, Otherness, Exclusion.” Parallax 11:1 (2005): 19-34. http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?xbrcack2nzy

____________. “Dissonances within Laïcité.” Constellations 11.3 (2004): 354-367. http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ond0kwy0v1i

____________. “Europe, an Unimagined Frontier of Democracy” diacritics 33.3–4 (2003): 36–44. http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?qx2ura8td9s

____________. “Europe: Vanishing Mediator.” Constellations 10.3 (2003): 312-338. http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?bf7t78jptqp

___________. “From Bachelard to Althusser: The Concept of’Epistemological Break’.” Economy and Society 7.3 (1978):207-237. http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?moob3qfjpdf

____________. “Interview: Etienne Balibar and Pierre Macherey.” diacritics 12.1 (1982): 46-51. http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?tmkgq11szuz

____________. “Introduction to Cerroni.” Economy and Society 7.3 (1978): 238-240. http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ebiafcueifk

____________. “Is a Philosophy of Human Civic Rights Possible: New Reflections on Equaliberty.” The South Atlantic Quarterly 103:2/3 (2004): 311-322. http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?r9rciv8pczr

____________. “Marx, the Joker in the Pack (or the included middle)” Economy and Society 14.1 (1985): 1-27. http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mbq1njo2fdk

____________. Outlines of a Topography of Cruelty: Citizenship and Civility in an Era of Global Violence.” Constellations 8.1 (2001): 15-29. http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?voqhla3kwq3

____________. “Propositions of Citizenship” Ethics 98.4 (1988): 723-730. http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?es12nyd2cki

____________. “Some Quetions on Politics and Violence” Assemblage 20.Violence, Space (1993): 12-13. http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?d0jnwydspgh

____________. “Structuralism: A Destitution of the Subject?” d i f f e r e n c e s : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 14:1 (2003): 1-21. http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?qco5ed0da7p

____________. “The Infinite Contradiction” Yale French Studies 88.Depositions: Althusser, Balibar, Macherey, and the Labor of Reading (1995): 142-164. http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?n1xowfvo8nh

____________. “What’s in a War? (Politics as War, War as Politics)” Ratio Juris 21.3 (2008): 365–386. http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?plc9wnwagm3

____________. “World Borders, Political Borders” PMLA 117.1, Special Topic: Mobile Citizens, Media States (2002): 71-78. http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?pdhxmtb5bor

A new blog on Agamben.

“Philosophical insults” through the history of philosophy: a comic strip

“Plato’s Aesthetics“: new in SEP

Ranciere and Nancy on Vendredi de la philosophie

And finally on the “Viroid Life“

JBSP: Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology

Finitude: History & Politics

ANTONIO CALCAGNO: Michel Henry’s Non-Intentionality Thesis and Husserlian Phenomenology

FABIO PRESUTTI: Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze and the ‘Idea of Language’ in the Synthesis of ‘Being’

BETH LORD: The Virtual and the Ether: Transcendental Empiricism in Kant’s Opus Postumum

JAMES N. McGUIRK: Aletheia and Heidegger’s Transitional Readings of Plato’s Cave Allegory

TRACY COLONY: The Wholly Other: Being and the Last God in Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy

FARHANG ERFANI: Fixing Marx with Machiavelli: Claude Lefort’s Democratic Turn

Part 2

Foro Social Mundial México 2008

(h/t: Azadeh Erfani)

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Toward a Theoretical Outline of the Subject: The Centrality of Adorno and Lacan for Feminist Political Theorizing — Claudia Leeb

Ethics and Subjectivity: Practices of Self-Governance in the Late Lectures of Michel Foucault — Nancy Luxon

Voting the General Will: Rousseau on Decision Rules — Melissa Schwartzberg

Harriet Martineau on the Theory and Practice of Democracy in America — Lisa Pace Vetter

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Linda Martín Alcoff: Fraser on Redistribution, Recognition, and Identity
James Bohman: Beyond Distributive Justice and Struggles for Recognition: Freedom, Democracy, and Critical Theory
Nikolas Kompridis: Struggling over the Meaning of Recognition: A Matter of Identity, Justice, or Freedom?
Rainer Forst: First Things First: Redistribution, Recognition and Justification
Nancy Fraser: Identity, Exclusion, and Critique: A Response to Four Critics
Kerstin Budde: Rawls on Kant: Is Rawls a Kantian or Kant a Rawlsian?
Emanuela Ceva: Plural Values and Heterogeneous Situations: Considerations on the Scope for a Political Theory of Justice
Daniel J. Mahoney: Review Article: Pierre Manent on the Fate of Democracy in Europe
 

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Symposium

Revolutionary Politics — Jeremy Elkins

Cynicism, Skepticism and the Politics of Truth — Andrew Norris

Truth and Politics — Linda Zerilli

Truth, Truthfulness and Politics: Brief Comments Concerning Elkins, Norris and Zerilli — Richard Flathman

Truth and Consequences: or, Whateer Happened to Post-modernism? — Tracy Strong

Reply to Flathman and Strong — Jeremy Elkins

Reply to Flathman and Strong — Andrew Norris

Reply to Flathman and Strong — Linda Zerilli

Essays

Funeral Rites, Queer Politics — Roy Wagner

War and Its Other: Between Bataille and Derrida — Nick Mansfield

Human Needs and the Crisis of the Subject — Andrew Biro

Four interesting links for those who are interested in the work of Cornelius Castoriadis:

1. The Rising Tide of Insignificancy (anonymously translated as a public service!)
2. Figures of the Thinkable (anonymously translated as a public service!)
3. A radio interview with Castoriadis from 1996 (in French)
4. An article on Castoriadis by Simon Tormey

Editorial Community: Comme-un?

Kuisma Korhonen Textual Communities: Nancy, Blanchot, Derrida    

Ignaas Devisch The Sense of Being(-)with Jean-Luc Nancy    

Marie-Eve Morin Putting Community under Erasure: Derrida and Nancy on the Plurality of Singularities    

Dorota Glowacka Community and the Work of Death: Thanato-ontology in Hannah Arendt and Jean-Luc Nancy    

Timothy J. Deines Bartleby the Scrivener, Immanence and the Resistance of Community    

Angela Mitropoulos and Brett Neilson Cutting Democracy’s Knot     

Paulina Tambakaki Global Community, Global Citizenship?    

Daniel H. Ortega ‘En Cada Barrio’: Timocracy, Panopticism and the Landscape of a Normalized Community    

John Paul Ricco The Surreality of Community: Frédéric Brenner’s Diaspora: Homelands in Exile    

Jake Kennedy Gins, Arakawa and the Undying Community

Petra Kuppers Community Arts Practices: Improvising Being-Together

Natalie Cherot Transnational Adoptees: Global Biopolitical Orphans or an Activist Community?

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Omid Payrow Shabani : Constitutional patriotism as a model of postnational political association: The case of the EU

Deborah Cook: Adorno’s critical materialism

Denise Vitale: Between deliberative and participatory democracy: A contribution on Habermas

Brian T. Trainor: The state as the mystical foundation of authority

James Bernauer: An uncritical Foucault? Foucault and the Iranian Revolution

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has two new entries of interest:

"Hannah Arendt", by Maurizio Passerin d'Entreves.

She is best known for two works that had a major impact both within and outside the academic community. The first, The Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951, was a study of the Nazi and Stalinist regimes that generated a wide-ranging debate on the nature and historical antecedents of the totalitarian phenomenon. The second, The Human Condition, published in 1958, was an original philosophical study that investigated the fundamental categories of the vita activa (labor, work, action). In addition to these two important works, Arendt published a number of influential essays on topics such as the nature of revolution, freedom, authority, tradition and the modern age. At the time of her death in 1975, she had completed the first two volumes of her last major philosophical work, The Life of the Mind, which examined the three fundamental faculties of the vita contemplativa (thinking, willing, judging).

"Democracy" by Tom Christiano.