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Critical Horizons:A Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory

VOLUME 10 (2009) ISSUE 2

**SPECIAL ISSUE**
Ethics of Commitment and Politics of Resistance:
Simon Critchley’s Neo-Anarchism
Edited by Robert Sinnerbrink and Philip A. Quadrio

Contents

Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance: Simon Critchley’s Infinitely Demanding
Robert Sinnerbrink and Philip A. Quadrio

On Simon Critchley’s Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance
Alain Badiou
 
Neo-Anarchism or Neo-Liberalism? Yes, Please! A Response to Simon Critchley’s Infinitely Demanding
Robert Sinnerbrink
 
“Critchley is Zizek”: In Defence of Critical Political Philosophy
Matthew Sharpe

The Common Root of Commitment, Resistance and Power
Karin de Boer
 
Speaking to the People: Critchley, Rousseau and the Deficit in Practical Rationality
Philip A. Quadrio
 
Which Anarchism? On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Infinity for (Political) Life: A Response to Simon Critchley’s Infinitely Demanding
Nina Power
 
A Plea for Prometheus
Alberto Toscano
 
Humorous Commitments and Non-Violent Politics: A Response to Simon Critchley’s Infinitely Demanding
Fiona Jenkins
 
Mystical Anarchism
Simon Critchley

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Jacques Rancière: in Disagreement
Paul Bowman; Richard Stamp

Conjunctive Times, Disjointed Time: Philosophy between Enigma and Disagreement
Sudeep Dasgupta

Politics without Politics
Jodi Dean
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PSYCHOANALYSIS, CULTURE & SOCIETY

July 2009 Volume 14 Number 2, pp 109 – 212

Constructing the enemy-other: Anxiety, trauma and mourning in the narratives of political conflict

Jeffrey Stevenson Murer

Ideology and identity: A psychoanalytic investigation of a social phenomenon

R D Hinshelwood

Psychoanalysis and ideology: Comment on R.D. Hinshelwood

Yannis Stavrakakis

Killing and dying for the sacred object: Commentary on R.D. Hinshelwood, ‘Ideology and Identity: A Psychoanalytic Investigation of a Social Phenomenon’

Richard Koenigsberg

Ideology, psyche and the historical significance of 9/11

Nancy Caro Hollander

Subjectivity, identity and 300 Spartans

Stacey Scriver

‘I felt a funeral in my brain’: The politics of representation in HBO’s Six Feet Under

Sophie Smith

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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

New Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry

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Noelle McAfee has the new entry:

Feminist political philosophy is an area of philosophy focused on understanding and critiquing the way political philosophy is usually construed, often without any attention to feminist concerns, and to articulating how political theory might be reconstructed in a way that advances feminist concerns. Feminist political philosophy is a branch of both feminist philosophy and political philosophy. As a branch of feminist philosophy, it serves as a form of critique or a hermeneutics of suspicion (Ricœur 1970). That is, it serves as a way of opening up or looking at the political world as it is usually understood and uncovering ways in which women and their current and historical concerns are poorly depicted, represented, and addressed. As a branch of political philosophy, feminist political philosophy serves as a field for developing new ideals, practices, and justifications for how political institutions and practices should be organized and reconstructed.

While feminist philosophy has been instrumental in critiquing and reconstructing many branches of philosophy, from aesthetics to philosophy of science, feminist political philosophy may be the paradigmatic branch of feminist philosophy because it best exemplifies the point of feminist theory, which is, to borrow a phrase from Marx, not only to understand the world but to change it (Marx and Engels 1998). And, though other fields have effects that may change the world, feminist political philosophy focuses most directly on understanding ways in which collective life can be improved. This project involves understanding the ways in which power emerges and is used or misused in public life (see the entry on feminist perspectives on power). As with other kinds of feminist theory, common themes have emerged for discussion and critique, but there has been little in the way of consensus among feminist theorists on what is the best way to understand them. This introductory article lays out the various schools of thought and areas of concern that have occupied this vibrant field of philosophy for the past thirty years.

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Harvard’s Political Theory magazine, The Utopian, is of interest to the readers of the site. This piece on Habermas is particularly good.

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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

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The ego, the Other and the primal fact — Toru Tani

Husserl’s transcendental philosophy and the critique of naturalism — Dermot Moran

Some differences between Kant’s and Husserl’s conceptions of transcendental philosophy — Thomas J. Nenon

Heidegger in Mexico: Emilio Uranga’s ontological hermeneutics — Carlos Alberto Sanchez

A non-Bergsonian Bachelard — Jean François Perraudin

Laughing at finitude: Slavoj Žižek reads Being and Time — Thomas Brockelman

Ricoeur and the pre-political — Farhang Erfani and John F. Whitmire

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Introduction: Recognition: Philosophy and Politics — Cillian McBride and Jonathan Seglow

Recognition, Needs and Wrongness: Two Approaches — Arto Laitinen

A Vital Human Need: Recognition as Inclusion in Personhood — Heikki Ikäheimo

Work and the Struggle for Recognition — Nicholas H. Smith

Rights, Contribution, Achievement and the World: Some thoughts on Honneth’s Recognitive ideal — Jonathan Seglow

Beyond Dignity and Difference: Revisiting the Politics of Recognition — Maeve Cooke

Demanding Recognition: Equality, Respect, and Esteem — Cillian McBride

Parity of Participation and the Politics of Status — Chris Armstrong and Simon Thompson

Recognition and Redistribution in Theories of Justice Beyond the State — Shane O’Neill and Caroline Walsh

SEP’s new entry on “Religion and Political Theory”

And Balibar’s Spinoza and Politics

What is a Political Event? — Iain MacKenzie

Transgression as a specific form of enjoyment in the criollo world — Gonzalo Portocarrero

The Horror of Self-Reflection: The Concealment of Violence in a “Self-Conscious and Critical Society” — Roberto Farneti

Law, Grace, and Race: The Political Theology of Manderlay — Vincent Lloyd

Empire, Tragedy, and the Liberal State in the Writings of Niall Ferguson and Michael Ignatieff — Jeanne Morefield

Politics and Connolly’s Ethics: Immigrant Narratives, Racism, and Identity’s Contingency — Paul Apostolidis

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

Elevators, social spaces and racism: A philosophical analysis — George Yancy

Deleuzian capitalism — Frédéric Vandenberghe

Politics as the quest for unity: Perspectivism, incommensurable values and agonistic politics — Brian T. Trainor

Berlin, value pluralism and the common good: A reply to Brian Trainor — George Crowder

New issue is out.

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2007 Koehn Event in Critical Theory. Alain Badiou and Etienne Balibar dialogue on “Universalism.”

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(h/t/: Richard Clarke)

(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

SEP has published a new entry on Pragmatism.

The Philosopher’s Zone: “Uprootedness and national conflicts“

John Protevi has posted a new draft of his “Deleuze and Cognitive Science” lecture.