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Etienne Balibar: At The Borders Of Europe
I am speaking of the "Borders of Europe" in Greece, one of the "peripheral" countries of Europe in its traditional configuration–a configuration that reflects powerful myths and a long-lived series… Read more
Ron Aronson: “The Soul of Socialism”
IF ONE OF THE GREAT SOCIALIST LEADERS of a century ago could see us now — Debs, say, or Luxemburg — he or she would certainly be puzzled by the… Read more
Robert C. Solomon (1942-2007)
With great sadness, I post this news via Prof. Leiter's blog: I am very sorry to report that my colleague Bob Solomon died suddenly on January 2, while travelling in… Read more
Robert Solomon in “Waking Life”
[youtube]82EV4KBIsNk[/youtube] This is Robert Solomon's own voice in a great clip, which is a tribute to his work. He will truly be missed.
Nancy’s “Is Everything Political?”
From Archive: S0omtim3es: An oft-heard claim hovers at the horizon of our thoughts, pronouncing that everything is political [tout est politique]. The claim can be proffered or received in several… Read more
International Journal of Philosophical Studies: Critical Theory
Table of Contents Introduction Nikolas Kompridis (York University, Toronto, Canada) Rethinking Critical Theory Articles 1. Jay Bernstein (New School for Social Research, New York, USA)Suffering Injustice: Misrecognition as Moral Injury… Read more
Book Review: Politics and the Passions
A review of Politics and the Passions, 1500-1850 This volume contains twelve essays on early modern philosophers from Machiavelli to Mill, addressing their views on the passions from the perspective… Read more
Habermas on immigration as the key to European unity
As a student, I often looked from the other side of the Rhine over here to the seat of the four high commissioners. Today I enter the Petersberg for the… Read more
Audio Lectures
Alphonso Lingis "Unintelligible Lines, Unknown Paths" January 23, 2003 Listen to lecture (Realmedia) Peter Gilgen "In the Wilderness of Thinking: Kant's 'Sign of History'" January 30, 2003 Listen to lecture… Read more
CFP: Irigaray
The Irigaray Circle at Stony Brook University, sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Program in Women's Studies, will present its second annual conference on September 7-8, 2007. The… Read more
CULTURE MACHINE 8 (2006) — Community
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… Read more
The gospel according to Slavoj Zizek
Philosophy at the End of the WorldThe gospel according to Slavoj Zizek.by Ashley Woodiwiss (via PTDR) And so it has come to this. Philosophy is now in the hands of… Read more
etext: Empire
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri: Empire Perfect, printable PDF with the right pagination. Click here.
Bruno Latour: On the Difficulty of Being Glocal
Universalism used to be a rather simple affair: the more detached from local traditions, the more universal you became. If the stoics could be called ‘citizens of the world’, it’s… Read more
Ranciere — Who is the Subject of the Rights of Man?
[From the South Atlantic Quarterly 103.2/3 (2004) pp. 297-310.]As we know, the question raised by my title took on a new cogency during the last ten years of the twentieth… Read more
Westphal: Coping and Conversing
Coping and Conversing: The Limits and Promise of Pragmatism by Merold Westphal Is pragmatism the golden mean between dogmatism and skepticism, realism and anti-realism, absolute correspondence and arbitrary convention? We… Read more
Alcoff: Reclaiming Truth
Reclaiming Truth Talk: Between the Absolute and the Arbitrary by Linda M. Alcoff Catherine Elgin has usefully diagnosed a “bipolar disorder” that continues to incapacitate philosophy and much of contemporary… Read more
Towards a Genealogical Feminism
Towards a Genealogical Feminism: A Reading of Judith Butler’s Political Thought Alison Stone, University of Lancaster (UK) — Winner of Contemporary Political Theory Annual Prize (2005) Judith Butler’s contribution to… Read more
Agamben Bibliography
Giorgio Agamben: A Selected Bibliography Compiled by Eddie Yeghiayan Here is the link.
J.M. Berntsein Audio Lectures (Kant and Hegel)
A recording of J.M. Bernstein's seminar on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit is available at this site on MP3 files. Each MP3 file is approximately 12-25MB and plays 30-60 minutes…The seminar… Read more