Category: Politics

April 8, 2014

The EU: A Dictatorship of Freedoms (Part 1) — Albena Azmonova

The following is part one of a post by Albena Azmanova, author of The Scandal of Reason: A Critical Theory of Political Judgment. We will post part two tomorrow. Azmanova will be speaking at The New School tonight at 6...

March 14, 2014

"Do you believe in fate, Neo?" Law, Freedom, Representation, and Identity in THE MATRIX

Happy Friday, everyone! But before we continue on with the University Press Roundup, we’d like to conclude our week-long feature of Paul W. Kahn’s Finding Ourselves at the Movies. In the except below, Kahn illuminates the underlying philosophies of the...

March 13, 2014

LINCOLN: Sacrifice, Family, and Politics

As part of our ongoing feature of Paul W. Kahn’s Finding Ourselves at the Movies, we’re delighted to share a guest post from the author himself on Steven Spielberg’s 2012 film Lincoln. Don’t forget to enter our book giveaway for...

February 21, 2014

Shifting Sands After the Arab Spring

This week our featured book is Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East by Joel S. Migdal. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on...

February 20, 2014

The Yom Kippur War and the Changing Calculus of U.S. Foreign Policy

This week our featured book is Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East by Joel S. Migdal. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on...

February 19, 2014

Tiptoeing Through Minefields

This week our featured book is Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East by Joel S. Migdal. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on...

February 18, 2014

The Middle East in the Eye of the Global Storm, by Joel Migdal

This week our featured book is Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East by Joel S. Migdal. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on...

February 6, 2014

The Concept of the State in General Can and Must Be Destroyed

This week our featured book is Factory of Strategy: Thirty-Three Lessons on Lenin by Antonio Negri, translated by Arianna Bove. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as...

February 5, 2014

Economic Struggle and Political Struggle, by Antonio Negri

This week our featured book is Factory of Strategy: Thirty-Three Lessons on Lenin by Antonio Negri, translated by Arianna Bove. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as...

February 4, 2014

Read the prefaces to Factory of Strategy, by Antonio Negri

This week our featured book is Factory of Strategy: Thirty-Three Lessons on Lenin by Antonio Negri, translated by Arianna Bove. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as...

January 27, 2014

Santiago Zabala on Communism's Present and Future

“After all, politics is not supposed to be simply at the service of everyday administrative life, but also to provide a reliable guide for everyone to fully exercise existence. But when these and other obligations are not met, philosophers tend...

November 14, 2013

Joseph Cirincione talks Iran with Fareed Zakaria