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

Derrida's "Odyssey": Hospitality, Borders, and the Meaning of 'Xenia'

What do we really owe a stranger at the door, and what grounds that obligation? In this episode, Craig and Adam turn to Jacques Derrida's writing on hospitality to unpack Christopher Nolan's new adaptation of The Odyssey, tracing how xenia, the ancient Greek law of guest and host, becomes a lens for thinking through breaking Zeus's law, the massacre of the suitors, and the slow collapse of Bronze Age civilization. The conversation moves through Derrida's distinction between conditional and absolute hospitality, and what it means for a world where borders, asylum claims, and even hospitals have turned the promise of welcome into a catastrophe. It's Nolan's adaptation of Homer's epic read through Derrida: gods, guests, and the violence lurking underneath the oldest tablets of law.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5zik1RTugYA&ra=m

С. Зенкин - Свидетели, толкователи, соблазнители: Фигуры ученого во французской литературе XIX века

В XIX столетии, в условиях прогресса и профессионализации науки, она сравнительно редко становится предметом изображения во французской литературе, привычной скорее к фигурам светских эрудитов или эзотерических мудрецов. Если говорить о персонажах академических ученых (профессоров, исследователей, академиков) в романах и новеллах, то выделяются три их функции в сюжете и рецептивной структуре: наблюдать редкие, странные, иногда фантастические картины и происшествия, дешифровывать и толковать сложные (например, экзотические, восточного происхождения) документы, увлекать за собой — на благо или во зло — других людей, включая читателей. Все эти три функции-металитературные, они отражают процесс читательского восприятия текстов, а косвенным образом и мотивы, в силу которых наука обретает авторитет в глазах неученой публики и претендует на свободу мысли и исследования.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6vUavoOqSh0&ra=m

Robert Cohen - Freedom's Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s

Here is the first biography of Mario Savio, the brilliant leader of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement, the largest and most disruptive student rebellion in American history. Savio risked his life to register black voters in Mississippi in the Freedom Summer of 1964 and did more than anyone to bring daring forms of non-violent protest from the civil rights movement to the struggle for free speech and academic freedom on American campuses. Drawing upon previously unavailable Savio papers, as well as oral histories from friends and fellow movement leaders, Freedom's Orator illuminates Mario's egalitarian leadership style, his remarkable eloquence, and the many ways he embodied the youthful idealism of the 1960s. The book also narrates, for the first time, his second phase of activism against "Reaganite Imperialism" in Central America and the corporatization of higher education. Including a generous selection of Savio's speeches, Freedom's Orator speaks with special relevance to a new generation of activists and to all who cherish the '60s and democratic ideals for which Savio fought so selflessly.

James Miller - Democracy Is in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago

On June 12, 1962, sixty young student activists drafted a manifesto for their generation. The Port Huron Statement that ignited a decade of dissent. Democracy Is in the Streets is the definitive history of the major people and ideas that shaped the New Left in America during that turbulent decade. Because the 1960s generation is now moving into positions of power in politics, education, the media, and business, their early history is crucial to our understanding. James Miller, in his new Preface, puts the 1960s and them into a context for our time, claiming that something of value did happen: "Most of the large questions raised by that moment of chaotic openness political questions about the limits of freedom, and cultural questions, too, about the authority of the past and the anarchy of the new are with us still."