Tag: Political Theory

October 10, 2020

Noëlle McAfee on Our Paranoid Politics

“In exploring the fear of breakdown that underlies human existence, Noëlle McAfee creates a genuine intellectual breakthrough—her book is a stunningly original exploration of the political significance of mourning. This is one of the most thrilling books I have read...

May 16, 2019

Book Excerpt! Political Categories: Thinking Beyond Concepts

“Political Categories proposes nothing less than a new way of thinking about politics and such political ideas and institutions as the state, sovereignty, power, and revolution. The question is how to define what is proper or singular to politics without isolating...

May 15, 2019

Position as a Political Category: Phenomenology and the Eroticism of Power (Part 2)

“Michael Marder’s Political Categories is much more than a book about politics. It takes a step back and looks at the conceptual apparatus we rely on when we talk about politics and engage in it.”  ~ Slavoj Žižek, author of Disparities and The Incontinence of...

May 14, 2019

Position as a Political Category: Phenomenology and the Eroticism of Power (Part 1)

“In a political world where simplistic reductions tend to reign, Marder offers a thoughtful reconsideration of categories as offering greater descriptive power and critical complexity than concepts that suppress the specificity of political phenomena. This is an important book that...

December 7, 2018

Book Excerpt! Politics Recovered, edited by Matt Sleat (introduction)

“Politics Recovered is an impressive collection of original essays that constitutes a major contribution to the growing literature on political realism; an important and increasingly influential development in contemporary political theory.” ~ John Horton, Keele University •  •  •  • ...

December 6, 2018

The Role of Politics: A Word From Matt Sleat

“Our actual political institutions or experience should not contaminate the moral or philosophical purity of our political theories.” ~ Matt Sleat Today, we are graced with a guest post from Matt Sleat who edited Politics Recovered: Realist Thought in Theory...

October 24, 2018

What’s in a Name?: Violence and the Responsibility of Political Theory

This week we are featuring titles from our New Directions in Critical Theory series. Today, we have a guest post from Mathias Thaler, author of Naming Violence: A Critical Theory of Genocide, Torture, and Terrorism. In this book, Thaler articulates a novel perspective on the study...

June 25, 2018

David Coates on Flawed Capitalism

 In this video, David Coates discusses his major new book, Flawed Capitalism: The Anglo-American Condition and its Resolution. Released in May 2018, Flawed Capitalism, draws on his vast experience of economy and society in both the U.S. and the UK to...

February 6, 2015

"What Is Academic Freedom For?," by Robert J. Zimmer

Read “What Is Academic Freedom For?,” by Robert J. Zimmer, excerpted from WHO’S AFRAID OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM?, edited by Akeel Bilgrami and Jonathan R. Cole.

February 5, 2015

"Exercising Rights: Academic Freedom and Boycott Politics," by Judith Butler

Read “Exercising Rights: Academic Freedom and Boycott Politics,” by Judith Butler, excerpted from WHO’S AFRAID OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM?, edited by Akeel Bilgrami and Jonathan R. Cole.

February 4, 2015

"Academic Freedom and the Boycott of Israeli Universities," by Stanley Fish

Read “Academic Freedom and the Boycott of Israeli Universities,” by Stanley Fish, excerpted from WHO’S AFRAID OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM?, edited by Akeel Bilgrami and Jonathan R. Cole.

February 3, 2015

What We Talk About When We Talk About Academic Freedom

Read an excerpt from Akeel Bilgrami and Jonathan Cole’s introduction to WHO’S AFRAID OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM?