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

Sharad Chari - Gramsci at Sea

This succinct work reads Antonio Gramsci's writings on the sea, focused in his prison notes on waves of imperial power in the inter-war oceans of his time. Sharad Chari argues that the imprisoned militant's method is oceanic in form, and that this oceanic Marxism can attend to the roil of sociocultural dynamics, to waves of imperial power, as well as to the capacity of Black, Drexiyan, and other forms of oceanic critique to "storm" us on different shores.

Владимир Максаков - Добродетель террора, или Террор добродетели

О сборнике статей «Робеспьер. Портрет на фоне гильотины»

Робеспьер был и остается фигурой противоречивой. С одной стороны, казалось бы, история давно вынесла ему приговор как вдохновителю революционного террора, залившего кровью Францию конца XVIII века. Но с другой, его идеи, позволяющие увязывать террор с добродетелью, живы и сегодня. Разобраться в этом сложном клубке противоречий попытался Владимир Максаков, прочитав сборник статей французских ученых «Робеспьер. Портрет на фоне гильотины».

https://gorky.media/reviews/dobrodetel-terrora-ili-terror-dobrodeteli

Bernard E. Harcourt - Marcuse on Hegel

In this introductory lecture, Professor Bernard E. Harcourt presents on Herbert Marcuse's reading of Hegel in "Reason and Revolution" (1941), in preparation for the seminar with Seyla Benhabib who will discuss Marcuse’s 1941 book​​, as well as Marcuse's earlier work on Hegel, "Hegel’s Ontology and the Theory of Historicity" (1932). Professor Benhabib introduced and translated that earlier text.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8MCQfT7iKA

Andrew Pearmain - Antonio Gramsci: A Biography

A historical biography of the Italian philosopher/politician Antonio Gramsci, considered one of the most important Marxist philosophers of the twentieth-century. As part of the Communist Lives series, Andrew Pearmain explores the life of Gramsci from his childhood, to his role in the newly formed Communist Party of Italy, and to his imprisonment and death in Turi di Bari, using recent archival research including material released by the Gramsci and Schucht family

Bernard E. Harcourt - An Introduction to G.W.F. Hegel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKtAwsuhBuw

How The World Sees America, with Adam Tooze

The old world order is dying. What new world order if any is struggling to be born?

I can’t think of a week when it felt clearer that an era was coming to an end. Whatever people thought America was, at least for a couple of decades, it’s something else now. The killing of Alex Pretti and the fact that it was recorded on video that plainly contradicted the Trump administration’s initial narrative made that clear. Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada, also drove home that point when he declared at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that the world was in the midst of a “rupture.”

What do people think of America now in Europe? In China? And if American hegemony is coming to an end, what comes after that?

Adam Tooze is a historian at Columbia University and a chronicler of crises. The Guardian recently called him “the crisis whisperer.” He’s written a number of books about the times when systems fall apart and new orders emerge, including “Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World.” And on his Substack, Chartbook, he tracks the unfolding crises and power shifts, in particular the rise of China. He also had a front-row seat to the chaos of Davos last week, moderating a panel that included Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary.

I wanted to talk to Tooze about what he saw at the World Economic Forum, how the world’s understanding of the U.S. is changing and how he’s making sense of this moment.

0:00 Intro
2:38 Davos recap
10:13 Trump administration’s vision of American power
16:15 China’s message at Davos
20:04 Is Trump right about America’s trajectory?
25:11 How America has perceived China’s rise
31:20 Is China in decline?
36:02 China’s progress: a mindbending experience for Tooze
42:13 The Trump administration’s contradictory approach to energy
50:06 How does China now see America?
53:36 Davos and the next world order?
59:44 Book recommendations

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9gR7CsXIwFs