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The Ruse of Techne: Heidegger's Magical Materialism
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Dimitris Vardoulakis
Published online: 23 January 2025
Published in print: 03 September 2024
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Thoreau Goes to Ghana: On the Wild and the Tingane
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Anatoli Ignatov
Published: 01 December 2015
... revises property as poetic/spiritual enclosures that highlight ways of apprehending the land without possessing it as enclosed commons. It also outlines a practice of political theory that is less concept-centric. As we shift back and forth between the registers of theory and ethnography, economy can...
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Thinking Through Creolization
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Jane Anna Gordon
Published: 01 February 2014
... s Trouillot Michel Rolph Asante Molefi discipline s academic modernism Munasinghe Viranjini North Africa Palmié Stephan political theory passim but see especially Wolin Sheldon creature s culture s nature Schmitt Carl symbol s Benhabib Seyla conservatism democracy passim but see...
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Conclusion
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Jane Anna Gordon
Published: 01 February 2014
...This conclusion explains how creolizing political theory is different from the comparative political theory of Fred Dallmayr, Roxanne Euben, Michaelle Browers, Leigh Jenco, Farah Godrej, and Andrew March, on the one hand, and work on processes of disavowal by Sibylle Fischer and on moments...
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The Invention of the Superego: Freud and Kelsen, 1922
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Étienne Balibar
Published: 01 November 2016
... of the “superego,” which thus becomes the representative of the political at the heart of the theory of the unconscious just as it is or could be the representative of the unconscious psyche at the heart of political theory. Freud Sigmund Kelsen Hans Ogilvie Bertrand Mari Enrique Arendt Hannah Foucault Michel...
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Medea, a Manifesto
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Juliette Cherbuliez
Published: 04 August 2020
... destruction Latour Bruno violence Medean Stiegler Bernard Cavarero Adriana Euripides Horrorism Cavarero Inclinations Cavarero maternality Medusa character Homer Iliad Homer infanticide Carlson Marvin Antigone Adriana Cavarero Bonnie Honig pharmakon political theory There is good reason...
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Published: 05 January 2021
... Badiou communist theory Hume Meillassoux Occupy Movement philosophy of the subject political theory revolution Truth exists only in a process of scission. — Alain Badiou, Théorie de la contradiction If Alain Badiou’s Being and Event sought to move beyond...
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Published: 05 January 2021
... Dauvé Gilles Martin François speculation Lenin Vladimir encounter negation temporality life Occupy Oakland Nesic Karl formalization synthesis epistemological break Hegel G W F Simon Roland Althusser communist theory political theory proletariat Rancière revolution Everything you say...
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Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics
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Roger Berkowitz (ed.) and others
Published online: 10 March 2011
Published in print: 01 December 2009
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Mutant Neoliberalism: Market Rule and Political Rupture
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William Callison (ed.) and Zachary Manfredi (ed.)
Published online: 21 May 2020
Published in print: 05 November 2019
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In the Wake of Medea: Neoclassical Theater and the Arts of Destruction
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Juliette Cherbuliez
Published online: 21 January 2021
Published in print: 04 August 2020
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A Time for the Humanities: Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy
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James J. Bono (ed.) and others
Published online: 10 March 2011
Published in print: 15 November 2008
...This book brings together scholars from disciplines including philosophy, political theory, intellectual history, and literary studies to address the conceptual foundations of the humanities and the question of their future. What notions of the future, of the human, and of finitude underlie...
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Blooming: (De)Compositional Planetary Politics
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O'neil Van Horn
Published: 05 December 2023
... Catherine relational responsibility relations fragmentation Giraud Eva Haifa groundlessness ungrounding Berry Wendell apophatic folding Halberstam Jack apophasis activism compost political theory pluralism progress soil soil science science studies Inside rich histories of entangled...
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Introduction: Magical Government
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Christopher F. Loar
Published: 05 June 2014
... and exploration in this period attempt to imagine the forms that civilizing narratives might take. It examines the role in these fictions of the “first gunshot topos,” a recurring moment of technologically-simulated magic. It then discusses seventeenth- and eighteenth-century political theory and the narratives...
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Published online: 18 September 2014
Published in print: 01 February 2014
...Asking whether one can develop an approach to studying political life that reflects its heterogeneity, Jane Anna Gordon offers the creolization of political theory as a viable response. Creolization, she argues, describes mixtures that were not supposed to have emerged in the plantation societies...
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Published: 01 May 2014
... Jean Jacques Burke Edmund poeisis Coleridge Political Theology Unconditional Imagination Political Theory It would be a question of critiquing, deconstructing if you will, one in the name of the other, sovereignty in the name of unconditionality. This is what would have to be thought, reasoned...
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Published online: 24 January 2013
Published in print: 14 August 2012
... simultaneously in and outside of democratic state capitalism. Drawing on political theory, intellectual history, and the techniques of close reading, Against Democracy offers new accounts of the ethos of refusing democracy, of literary criticism's contribution to that ethos, and of the history...
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Published: 04 January 2016
... as an allegory of the Mediterranean. In discussing Cacciari’s mix of philosophy, political theory, philology, and theology, the author stresses that political theory does not “work” in the conventional sense of the word. The very idea that a political theory must be fully realized is the bedrock...
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Democracy's Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing
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Jennifer Greiman
Published online: 01 September 2011
Published in print: 04 January 2010
... to sovereign power that continues to occupy political theory today. Is sovereignty, with its reliance on singular and exceptional power, fundamentally inimical to democracy? Or might a more fully realized democracy distribute, share, and popularize sovereignty, thus blunting its exceptional character and its...
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Pragmatism: Diversity of Subjects In Dewey’s Philosophy and The Present Dewey Scholarship
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Stefan Neubert
Published: 16 March 2009
... and moral philosophy, social philosophy and political theory, theory of education and school, and theory of religion. diversity experience Darwin Charles empiricism Locke John naturalism communication epistemology metaphysics art Chicago School of functionalism and instrumentalism democracy Hook...