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

M. Behrent - Liberalism without humanism: Michel Foucault and the free-market creed, 1976–1979 This article challenges conventional readings of Michel Foucault by examining his fascination with neoliberalism in the late 1970s. Foucault did not critique neoliberalism during this period; rather, he strategically endorsed it. The necessary cause for this approval lies in the broader rehabilitation of economic liberalism in France during the 1970s. The sufficient cause lies in Foucault's own intellectual development: drawing on his long-standing critique of the state as a model for conceptualizing power, Foucault concluded, during the 1970s, that economic liberalism, rather than “discipline,” was modernity's paradigmatic power form. Moreover, this article seeks to clarify the relationship between Foucault's philosophical antihumanism and his assessment of liberalism. Rather than arguing (as others have) that Foucault's antihumanism precluded a positive appraisal of liberalism, or that the apparent reorientation of his politics in a more liberal direction in the late 1970s entailed a partial retreat from antihumanism, this article contends that Foucault's brief, strategic, and contingent endorsement of liberalism was possible precisely because he saw no incompatibility between antihumanism and liberalism but only liberalism of the economic variety. Economic liberalism alone, and not its political iteration, was compatible with the philosophical antihumanism that is the hallmark of Foucault's thought.

Herbert Marcuse - From Luther to Popper This is the first paperback edition of what is now recognised as Marcuse's most important collection of writings on philosophy. He analyses and attacks some of the main intellectual currents of European thought from the Reformation to the Cold War. In a survey that includes Luther, Calvin, Kant, Burke, Hegel and Bergson, he shows how certain concepts of authority and liberty are constant elements in their very different systems. The book also contains Marcuse's famous response to Karl Popper's Poverty of Historicism, and his critique of Sartre.

Маленький кусочек кожи интересует звезды Из книги «Эстетика войны. Как война превратилась в вид искусства» Война ужасна тем, что нарушает предсказуемое течение жизни, и Тридцателетняя война не исключение. О том, как крестьяне, солдаты и полководцы XVII века пытались справиться с военной неопределенностью посредством хиромантии, гороскопов и игральных костей (и тем самым мало чем отличались от людей сегодняшних), читайте в отрывке из книги Андерса Энгберг-Педерсена «Эстетика войны. Как война превратилась в вид искусства». https://gorky.media/fragments/malenkii-kusochek-kozhi-interesuet-zvezdy

M. Doyle - «Decolonization» as neoliberal ideology Current management-led proposals to ‘decolonize the university’ within elite Anglo-American institutions ideologically legitimate their restructuring as transnational businesses. While anthropology is uniquely placed to critique social institutions and ideologies, its current dominant theoretical orientation is blind to the forms of power which shape its own institutional environments. Even as anthropologists have engaged in theories said to address problems of representation and epistemic injustice, they have failed to analyze the multiple crises of contemporary higher education, resulting from the profound transformation of universities’ political economy under neoliberal capitalism. A genuinely decolonial anthropology is one which frankly analyses its own structural economic conditions and combines this with a political practice of national and transnational solidarities to transform the institution of the university at the local and global level.

Kevin Mattson - Just Plain Dick: Richard Nixon's Checkers Speech and the "Rocking, Socking" Election of 1952 It all started with some businessmen bankrolling Richard Nixon to become a "salesman against socialization." But in this precursor to current campaign finance scandals, Nixon had some explaining to do to keep his place on Eisenhower's Republican ticket, so he took to the airwavess. In making his speech, Nixon left behind lines about a "Republican cloth coat" and a black and white cocker spaniel named "Checkers." The speech saved and bolstered Nixon's political career and set the tone for the 1952 campaign. Just Plain Dick is political history and more. It's the story of a young man nearing a nervous breakdown and staging a political comeback. While the narrative focuses tightly, almost cinematically, on the 1952 election cycle-from the spring primary season to the summer conventions, and then to the allegations against Nixon through to the speech in September and finally the election in November-Mattson also provides a broad-stroke depiction of American politics and culture during the Cold War. With publication scheduled during the 2012 election season, readers will see Nixon's contribution to current campaign styles. Here is a story of phony populism, a hatred of elites (tagged "eggheads" back then), and emotionally charged appeals erasing a rational assessment of a politician's qualifications. An entertaining and suspenseful read, Just Plain Dick is ideal election context for political junkies and those fascinated with 1950s America.