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

Frank Ruda - Badiou’s Passage – The End of Antiphilosophy

This article examines the function of the last antiphilosopher, Lacan, in Badiou’s oeuvre and argues that philosophy is systematically determined by at least two historicizing operators: one it encounters through identifying events taking place in what Badiou calls conditions (they impact philosophy’s concept of truth) and one originating in antiphilosophy (and have an impact on philosophy’s concept of the subject). It is the latter that can help resuscitate philosophy in times of a crisis of philosophy which is why its two paradigms are Marx(ism) and psychoanalysis. The present article examines Badiou’s concept of philosophy vis-à-vis the latter.

https://www.crisiscritique.org/storage/app/media/2026-22-01/frank-ruda.pdf

Paul Foot - The Vote: How It Was Won and How It Was Undermined

The dramatic story of the peoples' fight for the right to vote in Britain The culmination of a lifetime's work by the great journalist and historian Paul Foot, The Vote tells the thrilling story of the hard, long-fought struggle for the right to vote in Britain, and the slow erosion that followed. In the tradition of "history from below," Paul Foot examines the great democratic debates that dominated the fight for electoral democracy. Taking readers from the smoke-filled church of the Putney debates, to the dramatic arguments between Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke in the aftermath of the French Revolution, to the rise of Chartism and the struggles for votes for women. Throughout, Foot shows how vested interested first delayed and then hobbled the progress of parliamentary democracy. Concentrating on the vital role played by direct action, he shows how rank-and-file resistance to ruling-class injustice was followed by retreat into parliamentary impotence. Into the twentieth-century, Foot exposes the gaps between the promises of a succession of Labour governments and their actions once in power, and its abandonment of any aspiration to economic democracy. A gripping work of narrative history, written in Paul Foot's inimitable energy and engaged style, this book is a classic work of history, and a must-read for anyone interested in how today's political scene was formed.

Rebecca Comay - Deadlines (literally)

I have been thinking lately about the strange temporality of deadlines. Is there more than a superficial family resemblance between the emergencies we suffer on a daily, yearly and epochal basis due dates, expiration dates, foreclosure dates, biological clocks, execution dates, revolutionary crisis points, environmental tipping points, pandemic turning points, messianic end-times? There is something off-putting and tone-deaf about the bland capaciousness of this list, and I am finding it hard to find a way to address this.

https://assets.kingston.ac.uk/m/7523cb5c72e5dbab/original/Deadlines-literally.pdf

Sharad Chari - Gramsci at Sea

This succinct work reads Antonio Gramsci's writings on the sea, focused in his prison notes on waves of imperial power in the inter-war oceans of his time. Sharad Chari argues that the imprisoned militant's method is oceanic in form, and that this oceanic Marxism can attend to the roil of sociocultural dynamics, to waves of imperial power, as well as to the capacity of Black, Drexiyan, and other forms of oceanic critique to "storm" us on different shores.

Владимир Максаков - Добродетель террора, или Террор добродетели

О сборнике статей «Робеспьер. Портрет на фоне гильотины»

Робеспьер был и остается фигурой противоречивой. С одной стороны, казалось бы, история давно вынесла ему приговор как вдохновителю революционного террора, залившего кровью Францию конца XVIII века. Но с другой, его идеи, позволяющие увязывать террор с добродетелью, живы и сегодня. Разобраться в этом сложном клубке противоречий попытался Владимир Максаков, прочитав сборник статей французских ученых «Робеспьер. Портрет на фоне гильотины».

https://gorky.media/reviews/dobrodetel-terrora-ili-terror-dobrodeteli

Bernard E. Harcourt - Marcuse on Hegel

In this introductory lecture, Professor Bernard E. Harcourt presents on Herbert Marcuse's reading of Hegel in "Reason and Revolution" (1941), in preparation for the seminar with Seyla Benhabib who will discuss Marcuse’s 1941 book​​, as well as Marcuse's earlier work on Hegel, "Hegel’s Ontology and the Theory of Historicity" (1932). Professor Benhabib introduced and translated that earlier text.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8MCQfT7iKA