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

Marcelo Hoffman - Foucault and Power: The Influence of Political Engagement on Theories of Power

Michel Foucault is one of the most preeminent theorists of power, yet the relationship between his militant activities and his analysis of power remains unclear. The book explores this relationship to explain the development of Foucault's thinking about power. Using newly translated and unpublished materials, it examines what led Foucault to take on the question of power in the early 1970s and subsequently refine his thinking, working through different models (war and government) and modalities (disciplinary, biopolitical and governmental). Looking at Foucault's political trajectory, from his immersion in the prisoner support movement to his engagements with the Iranian revolution and Solidarity in Poland, the book shows the militant underpinning of his interest in the question of power and its various shifts and mutations.

Oliver Gloag - Forget Camus: Confronting the Humanist Myth
Preface by Fredric Jameson

Albert Camus is broadly regarded as a philosopher of our time: a freedom fighter and a pioneering anti-colonialist. Oliver Gloag rejects the simplicity of this persistent image. A careful reading of Camus’s three major novels – The Stranger, The Plague, and The First Man – reveals a deep-seated attachment to colonialism and the colonial way of life. Forget Camus argues that its subject’s contradictions are central to understanding both his work and the meaning behind his enduring popularity. The legacy of the most widely read Frenchman in the world has been co-opted to present a flattering and false version of colonial history and is an obstacle to France coming to terms with its neocolonial present. Forget Camus is a book about colonial history and a nation’s literature that lays bare the ideological contradictions of French society past and present.

Джеймс Глик - Информация. История. Теория. Поток

Писатель и популяризатор науки Джеймс Глик рассказывает о том, как наше отношение к информации изменило саму природу человеческого сознания. Его книга Информация — увлекательное и напряженное путешествие по истории информации и связи от языка, на котором говорили африканские барабаны, к изобретению алфавитов, от первых попыток кодирования к электронным письмам и блогам, от древних времен к современности. На этом пути его сопровождают Чарльз Бэббидж, Ада Лавлейс, Клод Шеннон и другие великие ученые. Информация была признана лучшей научной книгой года по версии Los Angeles Time, получила множество призов и стала международным бестселлером.