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

Isabel Jacobs, Jacob Saliba - Finitude and Freedom

When the political philosopher Stanley Rosen recalled his encounter with Kojève in Paris in the 1960s, he noticed that Kojève often evoked one figure that stood above the rest of his circle: the theologian and Jesuit priest Gaston Fessard, “one of Kojève’s closest friends, perhaps his closest friend in Paris.” Rosen, moreover, added that among everyone he met, including Paul Ricœur and Emmanuel Levinas, Fessard remained “in my view, the greatest” with the exception of Kojève himself. Though little-known in English-speaking scholarship, Fessard was a giant on the French scene. He was known for his public debates with left-wing intellectuals, his resistance to Vichy in the 1940s, and pioneering contributions to the New Theology movement that led to the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. Throughout, Fessard maintained a close dialogue with Kojève, his friend, teacher, and philosophical sparring partner. This volume is the first systematic collection of the published and unpublished materials that document their exchanges and debates, including letters, essays, book reviews, and lectures. Standing at the intersection of secular political thought and theological discourse, Kojève and Fessard radically reshaped concepts of authority, right, sovereignty, and the end of history. This volume reveals how each thinker developed an original reading of Hegel, and how those readings and the debate that they spurred continue to shape political theology today.

https://communispress.com/finitude-and-freedom/

Rick Tilman - Thorstein Veblen and the Enrichment of Evolutionary Naturalism
 
One of America s most influential social critics, Thorstein Veblen authored works deeply rooted in evolutionary biology and American philosophical naturalism. Now one of today s preeminent Veblen scholars ranges widely over the man s writings to show how evolutionary naturalism underlies his social theory and criticism, shapes his satire, and binds his work together. Veblen s evolutionary naturalism, with its unflattering evaluation of America s self-selected special place in the international arena, casts doubt on today s foreign interventions, and it also provides a much-needed antidote to the resurgence of creationist thought in American culture. Rick Tilman shows that Veblen s ideas are still valuable to contemporary social scientists indeed, that his method of analysis and values are sorely needed to help us avoid wasteful consumption, predation, and the persistence of religious superstition.

Ребекка Фридман - Маскулинность, самодержавие и российский университет, 1804 - 1863
 
Рассматривая официальную и неофициальную жизнь университетов Российской империи, Ребекка Фридман показывает картину сложных процессов, в ходе которых формировались и обсуждались гендерные идеологии в XIX веке. Книга «Маскулинность, самодержавие и российский университет, 1804 - 1863» демонстрирует, насколько эти аспекты были важны для политической жизни европейской монархии.

Галина Орлова - Физики, или Моральная установка научного творчества в СССР

Перемещаясь между архивным документом и дневником, экраном и голосом, культурным воображением и научной политикой, пропагандой и технооптимизмом, холодной войной и социализмом с человеческим лицом, я бы хотела показать, каким образом в эпоху культа физики (В. Визгин) в СССР изменяется эпистемологический статус научно-технического творчества, оформляется его диспозитив, а способность к продуктивному творческому усилию превращается в морально-политический камертон. Я также рассчитываю с оглядкой на агентный реализм Карен Барад уделить особое внимание тому, как новое качество и масштаб отношений с материей, в которые вступает физик-ядерщик, актуализируют новые творческие импульсы и режимы ответственности.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pEpJn40qiUo&ra=m

Daniela Russ - Working Nature: A History of the Energy Economy

Daniela Russ argues that the category of ‘energy’ is best understood not in terms of particular material things but as a social relation to nature forged over 200 years of capitalist industrialization. Working Nature examines how engineers, scientists, and economists harnessed and circulated the products of nature despite social and natural resistance.

David C. Kang - Crony capitalism
 
Why has the literature on Asian development not addressed the issue of money politics in Korea? How can we reconcile the view of an efficient developmental state in Korea before 1997 with reports of massive corruption and inefficiency in that same country in 1998 and 1999? Politics is central to the answer. This study argues that both Korea and the Philippines experienced significant corruption throughout the post-independence era, and that political not economic considerations dominated policy making in both countries.