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

Jacques Derrida - Thinking What Comes, Volume 2: Institutions, Inventions, and Inscriptions

Geoffrey Bennington and Kas Saghafi present the majority of Jacques Derrida’s untranslated, and previously uncollected, essays and interviews. Dating mostly from 1992 to 2004, these writings offer a fuller picture of Derrida’s biography, theoretical engagements and the stakes of his social and political investments. Institutions, Inventions, and Inscriptions by Jacques Derrida: Thinking What Comes, Volume 2 collects Derrida’s writings on friends including Emmanuel Levinas, Alain David, Louis Marin, Marie-Louise Mallet, Safaa Fathy, Mathieu Bénézet and Jos Joliet. It also features interviews that illuminate his experience at school, his writing habits, the relation he saw between philosophical discourse to the ‘poetic’, and his views on the singularity of literature and fiction.

Gerald Epstein - The Crypto Chokehold

Trump’s return has vaulted pro-crypto interests into power. As they capture ever more Democrats, the political will to stop them is dwindling.

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-crypto-chokehold/

Алексей Макаркин - Выйти на площадь и не будить Герцена: декабристы в современном кинематографе

Национал-патриоты выдвигали иную дихотомию, в которо­й
государственничество противопоставлялось антигосудар­ ственничеству. У них декабристы выступали в качестве разрушителей страны, а отпор им дали такие безусловные государственники, как Николай I, Александр Бенкендорф, Александр Чернышев. Подспорьем для национал-патриотов послужила дореволюци­онная и эмигрантская антимасонская литература, активно переиздававшаяся в 1990-х, – в ней декабризм изображался частью глобального масонского заговора.

https://www.nlobooks.ru/upload/iblock/21d/c33w3d6e5u6wu3nv5zil6bfm2u8epjiw/164-NZ-Makarkin.pdf

The German Issue

The German Issue (1982) was originally conceived as a follow-up to Semiotext(e)'s Autonomia Italy issue, published two years earlier. Although ideological terrorism was still a major issue in Germany, what ultimately emerged from these pages was an investigation of two outlaw cities, Berlin and New York, which embodied all the tensions and contradictions of the world at the time. The German Issue is the Tale of Two Cities, then, with each city separated from its own country by an invisible wall of suspicion or even hatred. It is also the complex evocation of the rebelling youth squatters, punks, artists and radicals, theorists and ex-terrorists who gathered all their energy and creativity in order to outlive a hostile environment. Like a time capsule, The German Issue brings together all the major "issues" that were being debated on both sides of the Atlantic which eventually found their abrupt resolution in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall. It involved the most important voices of the period from writers and filmmakers to anthropologists, activists and poets, terrorists and philosophers: Joseph Beuys, Michel Foucault, Christa Wolf, Walter Abish, Alexander Kluge, Paul Virilio, Ulrilke Meinhof, William Burroughs, Jean Baudrillard, Hans Magnus Enzenberger, Maurice Blanchot, Hans Jurgen Syberberg, Heidegger, Andre Gorz, Helke Sander. Opening with Christo's "Wrapping Up of Germany" and the celebrated dialogue between East German dramaturge Heiner Muller and Sylvain Lotringer on the Wall ("Mauer"), since published in many languages, The German Issue offers a first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation.

Enduring Western civilization: the construction of the concept of Western civilization and its “others" (edited by Silvia Federici)

What do we mean by Western Civilization? When did the expression originate and why? At a time when there is a widespread perception that Western Civilization is undergoing a historic crisis, and when postmodernism, feminist theory, afrocentrism, deconstruction, and other current philosophical schools define themselves as alternatives to, or critiques of, Western Civilization, this book seeks to trace the development of the concept of Western Civilization and to examine the reasons for its endurance. It also suggests ways in which proponents of Western Civilization can co-opt ideas from opponents. Written from a multidisciplinary viewpoint, the essays in this volume trace the development of the concept of Western Civilization and seek to explode many standing beliefs primarily those which concern the very existence of a Western tradition.

Henry Clements - God and the Unconscious

Joan Copjec’s new book charts the conceptual affinities and historical convergences between psychoanalysis and Islamic philosophy.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/joan-copjec-cloud-kiarostami-corbin-lacan-sufi-freud/