Nach dem irischen Nein zum Vertrag von Lissabon sind die Regierungen mit ihrem Latein am Ende: Sie müssen die Bevölkerung über Europa entscheiden lassen.

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The time of hybridity — Simone Drichel

Arendt and Nietzsche on responsibility and futurity — Rosalyn Diprose

Levinas, Habermas and modernity — Nicholas H. Smith

Antinomies of transcritique and virtue ethics: An Adornian critique — Giuseppe Tassone

A law’s tale: John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance — Gertrud Koch

From avenging to revolutionary force: John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance — Hauke Brunkhorst

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An appropriate video: Habermas on technology and politics:

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Truth and Justification.

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When was 9/11? Philosophy and the terror of futurity — Stella Gaon
    
Foucault's Kantian critique: Philosophy and the present — Christina Hendricks

Deliberation interrupted: Confronting Jürgen Habermas with Claude Lefort — Stefan Rummens

Collapsing categories: Fraser on economy, culture and justice — Chris Armstrong

Religion and capitalism: Weber, Marx and the materialist controversy — Juan Manuel Forte

Review essay: Postphenomenology: 'Festschrift' for Don Ihde (Under consideration: Evan Selinger's Postphenomenology: A Critical Companion to Ihde) — Søren Riis

The University of Utah has many Tanner lectures available on pdf.

Of possible interest: Appiah, Benhabib, Cavell, Foucault, Fraser, Geertz, Habermas, Honneth, Lear, Nussbaum, Rorty, and many more.

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". . . And to define America, her athletic democracy." The Philosopher and the Language Shaper:In Memory of Richard Rorty(part 1)

by Jürgen Habermas 

[The following is the first part of an address delivered by Jürgen Habermas at Stanford University on Friday, November 2, 2007. Part 2 will appear on Saturday, and part 3 on Monday. It is reproduced here by kind permission of the journal New Literary History, which will publish it in early 2008, in an issue devoted to Richard Rorty.]

Dear Mary, dear Friends and Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen,

Given the highly personal occasion that brings us together here today, please allow me to start with a private memory.

I first met Richard Rorty in 1974 at a conference on Heidegger in San Diego. At the beginning of the convention, a video was screened of an interview with the absent Herbert Marcuse, who in it described his relationship to Heidegger in the early 1930s more mildly than the sharp post-War correspondence between the two men would have suggested. Much to my annoyance, this set the tone for the entire conference, where an unpolitical veneration of Heidegger prevailed. Only Marjorie Green, who had likewise studied in Freiburg prior to 1933, passed critical comment, saying that back then at best the closer circle of Heidegger students, and Marcuse belonged to it, could have been deceived as to the real political outlook of their mentor.

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(h/t: Azadeh Erfani) 

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Critical theory and the traps of conspiracy thinking — Volker Heins

What’s wrong with hypergoods — Charles Blattberg

Marx and the gendered structure of capitalism — Claudia Leeb

Tragedy and politics — Neal Curtis

Rawls and Habermas on religion in the public sphere — Melissa Yates

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Playing games/playing us: Foucault on sadomasochism: Bob Plant

Sacrificial pasts and messianic futures: Religion as a political prospect in René Girard and Giorgio Agamben: Christopher A. Fox

The inner experience of living matter: Bataille and dialectics: Asger Sørensen

Charles Taylor’s `imaginary’ and `best account’ in Latin America: Gustavo Morello

Systematically distorted subjectivity?: Habermas and the critique of power: Amy R. Allen

Comments on Amy Allen’s `Systematically distorted subjectivity?’: James Swinda