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The Marxist hypothesis: A response to Alain Badiou’s “communist hypothesis” : Platypus
The Marxist hypothesis: A response to Alain Badiou’s “communist hypothesis” Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 29 | November 2010 Against Badiou ALAIN BADIOU’S RECENT BOOK (2010) is titled with the phrase… Read more
Continental Philosophy in the Alpine Desert
The 2nd Southwest Seminar in Continental Philosophy will be held on May 28-30, 2011: two full days, Saturday and Sunday, plus a closing session on Monday morning. Keynote speakers will… Read more
CFP: Radical Foucault – A One Day Conference
The Centre For Cultural Studies Research at the University of East London will be hosting a one-day conference on Friday, September 9th, 2011 which will re-assess Michel Foucault’s contribution to radical thought and the application of his ideas to contemporary politics.
TOC: Radical Philosophy – Issue: 165 – January/February 2011
TOC: Commentaries The Global Capital Leviathan William I. Robinson David Cameron’s Tea Party Richard Seymour Alternatives to Austerity: The Need for a Public Utility ?Finance System Robin Blackburn Articles Introduction… Read more
Book Review: Conversations with Emmanuel Levinas
Michaël de Saint Cheron’s Conversations with Emmanuel Levinas, 1983-1994 (hereafter Conversations), is a somewhat misleadingly titled new publication from Duquesne University Press. The book’s title makes it sound as though… Read more
The best boring books | Books | guardian.co.uk
Robert McCrum has a list of top ten best boring books. Only Marx makes it from philosophy! “There’s no Blitz today, of course,and it’s difficult to recapture or conjure up… Read more
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy – Volume 24, Number 2, 2010
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy Volume 24, Number 2, 2010 Dewey, Hegel, and Causation Jim Good Jim Garrison Consciousness and Morality in the Philosophy of T. L. S. Sprigge Leemon… Read more
CFP: Villanova University Annual Conference
Villanova University 16th Annual Conference in Philosophy “The Return of Metaphysics” April 8-9, 2011 Keynote Speaker: Graham Harman Department of Philosophy, American University in Cairo The “end of metaphysics” is a… Read more
Foucault Studies 10: Foucault and Agamben
Number 10: November 2010: Foucault and Agamben
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Coen Brothers and Wittgenstein
Nearly 30 years before brother filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen released their new film True Grit, the younger sibling, Ethan, wrote his senior thesis at Princeton on the works of… Read more
Audio: Philosophers Zone:Nietzsche and the will to power
Friedrich Nietzsche was the son of a preacher who came to despise Christianity. He was a scholar of the Greek and Roman classics who became better known as a philosopher…. Read more
Audio: “On Maurice Blanchot and the Political”
On Maurice Blanchot and the Political Zakir Paul, Ann Smock, Helen Tartar, and Jean-Michel Rabaté in conversation Listen to a 86 minute recording, or download the file Tuesday, October 26,… Read more
Blogtrotting: “Bookshelf Porn”
Though not exclusively a philosophy site, it is a problem we can identify with. Visit Bookself Porn, to waste some time: via
Etudes Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies Vol 1, No 1 (2010)
Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies Vol 1, No 1 (2010) Table of Contents Articles ——– L’herméneutique du soi (1-4) Scott Davidson, Johann Michel Hermeneutics of the Self (5-8) Scott Davidson,… Read more
On the state of criticism in 2011
I call that other kind of criticism, the kind that doesn’t rely on authority and judgment, Romantic criticism. I call it that because of what I learned, long ago, from that melancholic and suicidal German, Walter Benjamin.
CFP: Philosophy and the Arts Conference
Philosophy and the Arts Conference Call for Papers and Artwork Fourth Annual Philosophy and the Arts Conference at Stony Brook Manhattan April 1-2, 2011 Keynote Speaker – Kaja Silverman The… Read more
TOC: Politics and Culture: 2010 Issues 3 & 4
THE LEFT AT WAR WITH ITSELF: A Special Double-Issue Devoted to Discussing Michael Bérubé’s “The Left At War” & the Questions it Raises (Guest-Edited by Gabriel Noah Brahm & Gregory… Read more
Book Review: examined lives: from socrates to nietzsche
James Miller teaches "liberal studies" at New York’s New School, and his publishing history neatly embodies the interdisciplinary nature of his trade: He’s penned a social history of rock n’… Read more
Book Review: Dosse: Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives
A review of Dosse, Deleuze and Guattari The ‘philosophy of desire’ was born in 1969, Serge Gainsbourg’s année érotique, when the radical psychoanalyst Félix Guattari met the philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Today,… Read more
Winter’s Philosophers by Charles Simic | NYRBlog
Charles Simic Jean Gaumy/Magnum Photos “Le Châtelard,” Village of Saint-Sigismond, France “Everyone who thinks is unhappy,” says Sergei Dovlatov in one of his stories. Some crows caw all day, some… Read more