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

How Charles Murray (Almost) Predicted the Trump Era Matt and Sam read Charles Murray’s 2012 book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010. This episode is the second in our occasional series on important, controversial, or unusually relevant conservative texts from the recent past. Here we take up Charles Murray’s 2012 book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010. With its focus on the ascendance of a new “cognitive elite,” cultural divides, and the pathologies afflicting working- and lower-class whites, the book might seem prophetic of the Age of Trump but the reality is more complicated. Murray’s oversights, it turns out, are as interesting as his insights. We walk listeners through Murray’s account of how America “came apart,” take the test he provides to see how thick our class/cultural bubbles are, then rip into the moralizing prescriptions with which he concludes the book. Along the way we discuss Murray as an emblematic success story of the right-wing welfare state and intellectual pipeline, revisit his obsession with race and IQ, and more! https://dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-how-charles-murray-almost-predicted-the-trump-era/

Владимир Еремин - В сердце леса О книге Эдварда Томпсона «Виги и охотники» В 1723 году в Англии был принят Черный акт, который вводил смертную казнь за охоту в частных владениях. Можно предположить, что страна в тот момент страдала от разгула браконьеров-простолюдинов, однако подоплека этого закона куда сложнее и интереснее. В чем именно она заключается, показал в революционном исследовании историк Эдвард Палмер Томпсон. https://gorky.media/reviews/v-serdtse-lesa

Вадим Парсамов: Жозеф Де Местр. Диалог с Россией Подкаст ведут: Михаил Велижев, Тимур Атнашев. Почему идеи Жозефа де Местра о провидении, религии и власти так сильно отозвались у русских собеседников от Сперанского и Струве до Чаадаева, Тютчева и Бердяева? Как европейский мыслитель, юрист, масон и сардинский посланник в Петербурге оказался в центре русской интеллектуальной истории XIX века? В новом выпуске подкаста «Умные книги» с историком Вадимом Парсамовым обсуждаем его книгу «Жозеф де Местр. Диалог с Россией», роль де Местра в формировании русской философии истории, его влияние на религиозное и политическое мышление XIX века, а также то, как идеи о вере, власти и ответственности звучат в сегодняшних спорах о Европе и модерности. 00:15 Представление книги и гостя 01:10 Для кого эта книга 02:04 Кто такой Жозеф де Местр 06:50 Русские собеседники де Местра 08:06 Диалог и культурный трансфер. О методологии книги 13:56 Как писалась книга 15:30 «Пугачев с университетским дипломом». Религиозные споры 18:33 Цитата из книги 24:11 Декабристы и Чаадаев 26:52 Взгляды де Местра и Чаадаева на Россию 29:25 О риторике де Местра и Чаадаева 31:00 Де Местр во второй половине XIX столетия 37:22 Де Местр и Карл Шмитт 39:09 О пророчествах де Местра https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=molb7wdCetc

Mila Burns - Dictatorship Across Borders: Brazil, Chile, and the South American Cold War Dictatorship Across Borders: Brazil, Chile, and the South American Cold War (UNC Press, 2025) offers a groundbreaking perspective on the 1973 Chilean coup, highlighting Brazil’s pivotal role in shaping the political landscape of South America during the Cold War. Shifting the focus from the United States to interregional dynamics, Mila Burns argues that Brazil was instrumental in the overthrow of Salvador Allende and the establishment of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. Drawing on original documents, interviews, and newly accessible archives, particularly from the Brazilian Truth Commission, Burns reveals Brazil’s covert involvement in the coup, providing weapons, intelligence, and even torturers to anti-Allende forces. She also explores the resistance networks formed by Brazilian exiles in Chile. Burns’s impeccable research combining history, anthropology, and political science makes Dictatorship across Borders a vital addition to Cold War studies, reshaping how we understand power and resistance in South America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbzeoOrPzTI

Anthropologies of Modernity: Foucault, Governmentality, and Life Politics This book brings together a range of anthropological writings that are inspired by the French philosopher Michel Foucault and examine Foucault's contribution to current theories of modernity. Treats modernity as an ethnographic object by focusing on its concrete manifestations. Tackles issues of broad interest: from colonialism and globalization to war, genetics, and AIDS. Draws on work from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia.

Johann Beukes - Foucault in Iran, 1978–1979 In 1978 Michel Foucault went to Iran as a distinguished intellectual but novice political journalist controversially reporting on the unfolding revolution, undeniably compromising and wounding his reputation in the European intellectual community. Given the revolution’s bloody aftermath and its violent theocratic development, is Foucault’s Iranian expedition simply to be understood as a critical error in judgement, with disastrous consequences for his legacy? What exactly did Foucault hope to achieve in Iran in 1978-1979, explicitly supporting the cause of the revolting masses and effectively isolating himself from the European intellectual community and the Western liberal tradition? The book investigates this open nerve in the Foucault scholarship by interpreting Foucault's primary texts from this period, commenting on the various positions in the scholarship over the past three decades, and eventually proposes that Foucault's 'mistake', resulting from his 'self-consciousness' and 'uncertainty', was indeed a highly philosophical endeavour, but was completely misinterpreted by his contemporaries and even his most noteworthy biographers.