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

Enduring Western civilization: the construction of the concept of Western civilization and its “others" (edited by Silvia Federici)

What do we mean by Western Civilization? When did the expression originate and why? At a time when there is a widespread perception that Western Civilization is undergoing a historic crisis, and when postmodernism, feminist theory, afrocentrism, deconstruction, and other current philosophical schools define themselves as alternatives to, or critiques of, Western Civilization, this book seeks to trace the development of the concept of Western Civilization and to examine the reasons for its endurance. It also suggests ways in which proponents of Western Civilization can co-opt ideas from opponents. Written from a multidisciplinary viewpoint, the essays in this volume trace the development of the concept of Western Civilization and seek to explode many standing beliefs primarily those which concern the very existence of a Western tradition.

Henry Clements - God and the Unconscious

Joan Copjec’s new book charts the conceptual affinities and historical convergences between psychoanalysis and Islamic philosophy.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/joan-copjec-cloud-kiarostami-corbin-lacan-sufi-freud/

Константин Митрошенков - От культурной революции 1960-х к постмодернизму: Фредрик Джеймисон как теоретик периодизации

«Всегда историзировать!» – таким призывом открывается книга «Политическое бессознательное» (1981), вероятно, самая из­вестная работа Джеймисона. Может показаться, что нет ничего более «естественного» для критика-марксиста, чем указывать на важность историзирующего подхода. Но если мы, следуя призыву Джеймисона, историзируем его собственную интеллектуальную позицию, то обнаружим, что на рубеже 1970–1980-х лозунг историзации вовсе не был для марксиста само собой разумеющимся. В те годы марксизм все еще находился под сильным воздействием альтюссерианской критики историзма, изложенной в ряде работ 1960-х и прежде всего – в сборнике «Читать “Капитал”» (1965). Поэтому прежде, чем говорить о модели, предложенной самим Джеймисоном, необходимо сначала разобрать аргументы Луи Альтюссера, в заочном диалоге с которым Джеймисон формулировал свои позиции.

https://www.nlobooks.ru/upload/iblock/998/fdtod6di9phoka3evrtzvj4m3umdn1ev/164-NZ-Mitroshenkov.pdf

Ian Penman - Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors

A kaleidoscopic study of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, and mystery, Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman’s long-awaited first full-length book: a kaleidoscopic study of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Written over a short period "in the spirit" of RWF, who would often get films made in a matter of weeks or months, Thousands of Mirrors presents the filmmaker as Penman’s equivalent of what Baudelaire was to Benjamin: an urban poet in the turbulent, seeds-sown, messy era just before everything changed. Beautifully written and extraordinarily compelling, echoing the fragmentary works of Roland Barthes and Emil Cioran, Eduardo Galeano and Alexander Kluge, this story has everything: sex, drugs, art, the city, cinema, and revolution.

Jacques Derrida - Thinking What Comes, Volume 1: Essays, Interviews, and Interventions

In two volumes, Geoffrey Bennington and Kas Saghafi present the majority of Jacques Derrida’s untranslated, and previously uncollected, essays and interviews. Dating mostly from 1992 to 2004, these writings offer a fuller picture of Derrida’s biography, theoretical engagements and the stakes of his social and political investments. In the interviews in Essays, Interviews, and Interventions by Jacques Derrida: Thinking What Comes, Volume 1, Derrida proposes the foundation of a new European political culture, discusses the strengths of Nelson Mandela, and reflects on the archive. He also considers his experience of political life, his relationship to institutions (particularly the Collège international de philosophie), and his views on ‘intellectualism’. Whether writing about public health, Palestine, or the notion of the promise, Derrida is razor-sharp and impassioned.

Тело без органов и машины желания

Фрагмент перевода-реферата работы Делёза и Гваттари «Анти-Эдип»

«Капитализм и шизофрения» Делёза и Гваттари — один из самых значительных философских текстов XX века, текст-деконструкция ключевых моделей подавления: фрейдовского эдипова комплекса и капитализма. Предлагаем ознакомиться с переводом-рефератом первой части этой работы, выполненным Михаилом Рыклиным.

https://gorky.media/reviews/telo-bez-organov-i-mashiny-zhelaniya

Trevor Pateman - Roland Barthes: Writer, Intellectual, and also Professor

In the middle of the essay, discussing the role of the intellectual, Barthes has a short section titled ‘Les Questions’ which begins ‘Questioner, c’est désirer savoir une chose. Cependant, dans beaucoup de débats intellectuels, les questions qui suivent l’exposé du conférencier ne sont nullement l’expression d’un manque, mais l’assertion d’une plénitude. Sous couvert de questionner, je monte une aggression contre l’orateur’ [To question is to want to know something. Yet in many intellectual debates the questions that follow the lecturer’s talk are in no way the expression of a lack but the assertion of a plenitude. Under the cover of asking questions, I attack the speaker]. The interruption which I described in my TLS letter did not even hide the aggression and was an instance of a more widespread post-1968 anger.

https://sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/files/2025/10/PATEMAN-Writer-Intellectual-and-also-Professor.pdf