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

А. Арабаджян - Эволюция социалистической системы Кубы и экономические преобразования в 1959-1991 гг.

Новизна исследования основана на привлечении источников, которые редко используются исследователями или не использовались ранее. В частности, в работе используются архивные материалы, которые позволяют увидеть некоторые детали формирования планирования на Кубе и ее социалистической системы (РГАЭ, РГАНИ, архивы Института истории Кубы, Центра исследований Че Гевары, Министерства иностранных дел Кубы, Министерства экономики и планирования, Национальный архив Кубы, архив Бюро по историческим вопросам при администрации Президента Кубы). Помимо этого, мы изучаем предмет, который чаще всего остается за рамками исследований, - динамику системы планирования, теоретические и практические аспекты ее формирования на разных этапах. Такого исследования ранее в отечественной историографии не проводилось. Кубинская историография революционного этапа также на сегодняшний момент недостаточно глубоко проработала этот вопрос.

Hannah S. Chapman - Dialogue with the Dictator

Dialogue with the Dictator illuminates the ways in which authoritarian regimes structure interaction between citizens and leaders to simultaneously manage information dilemmas and build regime legitimacy. In doing so, it demonstrates the conditions under which managed participation can reinforce or jeopardize authoritarian control. Chapters uncover how these tools are viewed from the perspective of the public and the mechanisms through which they influence attitudes toward authorities. By cultivating limited opportunities for participation in otherwise closed political systems, autocrats bolster regime legitimacy while still maintaining control of the means and content of communication. These tools ultimately reinforce and entrench autocratic leaders rather than contributing to increased prospects for democracy – but not without consequences.

Jonathan Rée - We are all layabouts now

Kozhevnikov got off to a shaky start. He had decided to concentrate on Hegel’s unwieldy and enigmatic Phenomenology of Spirit, which was barely known at the time (he himself was not very familiar with it) and not available in French. To make matters worse, he was only 31 (younger than most of his audience) and had never taught before. He was to be employed as a suppléant (supply teacher or deputy) rather than a professor, but his application for an honorary licence, or teaching permit, was rejected – perhaps because he did not have a degree, or because he was still a Russian national. (He waited four more years for a French passport, in the name of Kojève.) The authorities refused to pay him, but he went ahead anyway, supporting himself by selling Leica cameras imported from Germany. His early lectures were, it seems, rather sketchy, but after six months he started receiving a salary and got into the habit of immersing himself in Hegel’s tricky German prose and guiding his audience through it paragraph by paragraph, week after week, translating as he went along and commenting in vivid demotic French. It would take him six years to reach the end.

The lectures took place on Monday afternoons and the official record shows that they attracted an audience of around twelve or fifteen, including several ‘registered students’ (élèves titulaires) and ‘regulars’ (auditeurs assidus), together with a handful of miscellaneous spectators, often including a Jesuit priest, a retired military gentleman and his wife, and the wily Surrealist André Breton. Some of them took Kojève out for dinner afterwards, so he must have been well liked. But he wanted to reach a larger public, and early in 1939 he published a sample in the prestigious literary review Mesures.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n02/jonathan-ree/we-are-all-layabouts-now

Клемперер В. Cвидетeльствовать до кoнца: Из дневников 1933-1945

Дневники В. Клемперера периода нацистской диктатуры 1933–1945 гг., фактически стали хроникой Третьего рейха. Это взгляд «изнутри» на жизнь немецкого общества под властью нацистов. Филолог Виктор Клемперер, немецкий еврей, женатый на немке, перенес все тяготы и унижения режима, но избежал уничтожения. День за днем Клемперер вел дневник, подробно описывая все происходившие с ним и вокруг него события, постепенно погружавшие в атмосферу всепоглощающего страха и безысходности все еврейское население Германии: страха перед гестапо, обысками, голодом, бомбежками; страха перед депортациями, часто приводившего людей к добровольному уходу из жизни.

Maurice Godelier - Forbidden Fruit: An Anthropologist Looks at Incest

Exploring the role of the incest prohibition in human societies
What is incest? Is it universally prohibited? Does this prohibition concern only "biological" kinships or does it extend to various "social" kinships, such as those that are formed today in so-called blended families but which also exist in many other societies?

This prohibition plays a fundamental role in the functioning of the multiple kinship systems studied throughout the world. But where does it come from? Can we think, with Claude Lévi-Strauss, that the prohibition of incest alone marks the passage from nature to culture? And how can we understand, then, the persistent tension between the proclaimed, institutionalized prohibition and the incestuous practice which, everywhere, remains?

World-renowned anthropologist Maurice Godelier highlights an essential fact, the spontaneously asocial and undifferentiated character of human sexuality and the need for a social regulation of this spontaneity. It thus brings to light the main teachings of anthropology on the question of incest, a major social fact of burning relevance today.

Arka Chattopadhyay - Alain Badiou and the Dialectic of the Present

This article will explore Alain Badiou’s philosophy of time to show what role time plays in his philosophy of subjectivity, event and truth. As against the critical consensus that Badiou either denies temporality a valuable presence in his system of thought or the position that Badiou loses time in eternity, the article will argue that Badiou’s late work, especially his 2001-2004 seminar, Images of the Present Time (2014, 2023) and the third and final instalment of the being and event project, The Immanence of Truths (2018, 2022) foregrounds the political temporality of the event as commitment and construction. In this this dialectical thesis on time, the political task of philosophy is to construct a dialectical present from a preset-less and world-less time. Badiou’s temporal dialectic consists of pushing the present away from the repetition of the past and toward a projection that endears it to the future. As this article demonstrates, ‘permeability’ and ‘inter-temporality’ emerge as key takeaway concepts from Badiou’s dialectical thinking on time that treats evental subjective truths as both temporal and eternal, thus revealing eternity to be an extension and not a negation of temporality. In the process, the article also addresses the crucial question about locating Badiou’s idea of the event in historical time or better still a time that must be constructed at a distance from history.

https://www.crisiscritique.org/storage/app/media/2026-22-01/arka-chattopadhyay.pd