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

К. Митрошенков - «Конца войны не видно, виден только конец Германии»

Об «Эмигрантских дневниках»
Бертольта Брехта

В 1938 году, когда Европа стремительно неслась к новому мировому побоищу, Бертольт Брехт начал вести «Рабочий журнал» — нечто среднее между дневником, записной книжкой и творческой лабораторией. В эмиграции он тяжело переживал катастрофу, но в то же время наблюдал за ней со стороны, пытаясь трезво осмыслить просходящее в мире, который катится в ад.

https://gorky.media/reviews/kontsa-voiny-ne-vidno-viden-tolko-konets-germanii

David Harvey - The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works

The world's leading Marxist geographer and economist guides general listeners through major concepts in capitalism and Marx's masterwork. For decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx's work, particularly Capital, to great acclaim. He has analyzed chapter by chapter sometimes line-by-line Marx's three volumes and the Grundrisse. This new book opens up the mental universe of that work for a general listener.

In The Story of Capital, Harvey takes a synoptic approach to the conceptual architecture as a whole and guides us through the key moments, from labor and technology to the state and geopolitics, via the profit rate, social reproduction, the relationship to nature, fictitious capital, and the return of the rentiers. In doing so, Harvey has produced a work which will become a key reference for all those trying to grasp the nature of contemporary capitalism.

Barry Eichengreen - Money Beyond Borders: Global Currencies from Croesus to Crypto

Doubts about the international dominance of the dollar are only growing amid worries about tariffs, political dysfunction, and fraying international alliances. Will the dollar continue to reign supreme? In Money Beyond Borders, the leading authority on international currencies, Barry Eichengreen, puts the dollar's prospects in deep historical perspective by chronicling the entire history of cross-border currencies, from the invention of coins in the seventh century BCE to the cryptocurrencies of today and the central bank digital currencies of tomorrow.

Михаил Велижев - «Размышляя о себе, он пишет о каждом из нас»

17 июня в Болонье ушел из жизни великий историк Карло Гинзбург. Ему было 87 лет. О встречах со своим другом и учителем вспоминает Михаил Велижев, редактор и переводчик работ Гинзбурга на русском языке.

https://gorky.media/context/razmyshlyaya-o-sebe-on-pishet-o-kazhdom-iz-nas

Anton Jäger - Hyperpolitics

What happens when politics is everywhere, yet nothing seems to change? From the abandoned dance floors of Thatcher’s London to the mass mobilizations of Black Lives Matter, Anton Jäger traces how pub­lic life has become infused with protest, spectacle, and moral urgency while the old infrastructure of parties, unions, and civic solidarity has been hollowed out. Hyperpolitics revisits the illusions of the “end of history” and dissects the strange energies that replaced them: viral outrage, endless culture wars, and the digital rush of causes that flare and vanish overnight. Jäger shows how the promises of post–Cold War liberalism gave way to a restless, unsteady public sphere where private pas­sions overflow into politics but rarely build enduring power. Ranging from Guy Debord and Wolfgang Tillmans to Houellebecq’s disenchanted fictions, Hyperpolitics makes sense of a world in which collective action remains fragmented and the social fabric thinner than ever. For anyone trying to grasp why our age feels so charged yet so incon­sequential, this book offers a vital map through the new contradictions of our hyperpolitical moment.