Search Results for political philosophy

...Xudong Zhang Duke University Press 2005 Political Philosophy and Comparison: Bourgeois Identity and the Narrative of the Universal Xudong Zhang 1. The Legitimacy of Comparison: Historical, Political, and Philosophical...

...Benedetto Fontana Duke University Press 2006 Reason and Politics: Philosophy Confronts the People Benedetto Fontana 1 This essay attempts to analyze the political thought of Leo Strauss, whose...

..., in Freiburg, Germany, at the Annual Conference of the International Association of Philosophy and Literature). For more on this question, see also Catherine Mills, “Agamben’s Messianic Politics: Biopolitics, Abandonment and Happy Life,” Contre- temps 5 (December 2004): 42–62; and Eva Geulen, Giorgio...

... materialist philosophy in transforming systems of knowledge to create new forms of collective Soviet identity. By examining political speeches and propaganda on the Soviet periphery, this essay argues that the translation of communism across the Muslim national platform exposes the power of this Marxist...

...Robyn Marasco This essay borrows the term “womanly nihilism” from an antifeminist misreading of Simone de Beauvoir in order to better understand her politics and philosophy and rethink her legacy for contemporary feminism. Through a close reading of The Ethics of Ambiguity and key chapters from...

...David Simpson The vocabulary of fear-terror has been confused and confusing throughout its expression in the classical and modern languages, whether in literature, in aesthetics, or in political science. As such, it is unlikely ever to be tamed by the rigors of philosophy, with its aspiration...

... of the enterprise of political philosophy per se or whether it might really be a genus of area studies. Perhaps it is something else entirely. Whatever its lineage, it is a relatively young field, and its parameters are still being formed. Part of the reason for its ongoing fluidity is the way in which...

...Brooke Holmes Bonnie Honig’s recently published book, Antigone, Interrupted , is a significant new contribution to ongoing debates in philosophy, political theory, and literary studies about the reception of Sophocles’s Antigone . This review analyzes the strengths of Honig’s readings, the theory...

... of sounds from around the world that was sent in the hope that an alien listener might be able to hear examples of music and language from planet Earth. Chua and Rehding's book uses NASA's Golden Record as a portal through which to imagine a new philosophy of music and listening based in vibration...

...Andrew David King Andrew David King interviews Charles Bernstein on topics that include the composition of All the Whiskey in Heaven, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E , the situatedness of poetry and poetics, Charles Altieri on the relation of poetry to rhetoric, poetry and identity poetics/politics, the Mandelstam...

... cryptography language political philosophy cultural studies References Abbate Janet . 1999 . Inventing the Internet . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Abella Alex . 2009 . Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of American Empire . Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin...

... a W. Alton Jones Chair in Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Outlaw's work focuses on American philosophy, Africana philosophy, critical social theory, and social and political Philosophy. He is a graduate of Fisk University (BA) and Boston College (PhD). Published writings include On Race...

... (with Susan Gillman). He is completing a book entitled Propaganda 1776. Chris Goto-­Jones is professor of comparative philosophy and political thought at Leiden University, where he is also the dean of Leiden University College in The Hague and director of the Modern East Asia...

... is Strauss’s The Political Philosophy of Hobbes, which was written in 1936 and first published in the United States in 1952. There, Strauss argues that the basis and genesis of modern political science is not in Hobbes’s dis- covery of Euclid and mathematical science but in his earlier empirical study...

... of Comparative Studies / 3 Harry Harootunian / Some Thoughts on Comparability and the Space-Time Problem / 23 John Kraniauskas / Difference Against Development: Spiritual Accumulation and the Politics of Freedom / 53 Xudong Zhang / Political Philosophy and Comparison: Bourgeois Identity...

... science at Northwestern University. His scholarship focuses on issues at the intersection of law and political philosophy. His latest books are The Tough Luck Constitution and the Assault on Health Care Reform (2013) and Defending Ameri- can Religious Neutrality (2013). He has also published more...

... History: A View from the South (2010); and The Law of Worldwide Value (2010). Etienne Balibar has been teaching at the Universities of Algiers, Paris I (Panthéon- Sorbonne), Leiden, Nanterre (Paris 10). He is now Emeritus Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at the University...

... they find their sources in Habermas or Levinas, many contemporary ethical and political philosophies are defined, explicitly or otherwise, by their reaction either to a supposed totalitarian hubris or to the “left-fascist” excesses of la pensée 68 (it is interesting that this Habermasian...

... recently finished a book on concepts of time and motion in Renaissance English poetry. He was the keynote speaker at the Poetics and Cognitive Science Colloquy, for Dactyl Foundation, New York City, in September 2005. 252 boundary 2 / Spring 2006 Benedetto Fontana teaches political philosophy...

... purpose of Qutb’s genealogy, which is to deconstruct Western political philosophy’s distinction between state and religion with its postulate that religion is a wholly private matter, protected by law but also impervious to the law. What Qutb offers as a history of European Christianity turns out...