Телеграм канал «Политическая теория и философия (Political theory and philosophy)»

Alain Badiou - Nietzsche: Anti-Philosophy 1

For Alain Badiou, Friedrich Nietzsche is the “prince” of anti-philosophy. French leftist thinkers celebrated Nietzsche in the second half of the twentieth century, but when a backlash emerged in the 1990s, Badiou refused to join the attack. Instead, he devoted his 1992–1993 seminar to an astonishingly original reading of Nietzsche to whom he had previously shown indifference or scorn in which he appears almost enamored with the author of The Anti-Christ and Ecce Homo.

This book presents Badiou’s seminar on Nietzsche’s late works, which for the first time addresses what would become one of his central concepts: anti-philosophy and its adversarial yet intimate relationship with philosophy. For Badiou, Nietzsche is the key modern anti-philosopher, his antagonist and occasional ally in the battle to redefine the work of philosophy. Badiou takes for granted Nietzsche’s declaration that “God is dead,” yet rejects his assertion that philosophy too is past its expiration date. Badiou engages a century-long tradition of grappling with Nietzsche’s paradoxes, considering thinkers such as Heidegger, Deleuze, and Derrida. Examining Nietzsche’s impassioned writings on Wagner, he reflects on the nature of art and aesthetics. Provocative and profound, this seminar shows Badiou’s ongoing project of reasserting the value of philosophy from a new angle.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - Reading Jameson

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wGLFjFpU6oY&ra=m

«В душе у каждого из нас есть точки»

Из сборника лекций Лайонела Триллинга «Искренность и подлинность»

Что значит быть собой — и почему стремление к подлинности легко превращается в очередную форму конформизма? Публикуем фрагмент лекций американского литературного критика Лайонела Триллинга, посвященных тонкому вопросу искренности.

https://gorky.media/fragments/v-dushe-u-kazhdogo-iz-nas-est-tochki

Mat Callahan - The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco, 1965–1975

As the fiftieth anniversary of the Summer of Love floods the media with debates over morals, music, and political movements; celebrations of “flower power,” “acid rock,” and “hippies;” The Explosion of Deferred Dreams offers a critical re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the Sixties. Author, musician, and native San Franciscan Mat Callahan explores the dynamic links between the Black Panthers and Sly and the Family Stone, the United Farmworkers and Santana, the Indian Occupation of Alcatraz and the San Francisco Mime Troupe, and the New Left and the counterculture. Callahan’s meticulous, impassioned arguments both expose and reframe the political and social context for the San Francisco Sound and the vibrant subcultural uprisings with which it is associated. Using dozens of original interviews, primary sources, and personal experiences, the author shows how the intense interplay of artistic and political movements put San Francisco, briefly, in the forefront of a worldwide revolutionary upsurge. A must-read for any musician, historian, or person who "was there" (or longed to have been), this book is substantive and provocative, inviting us to reinvigorate our historical sense-making of an era that assumes a mythic role in the contemporary American zeitgeist.