Look at his marvellous hands!
Reviews Look at his marvellous hands! Yvonne Sherratt, Hitler’s Philosophers, Yale University Press, New Haven CT and London, 2013. 336 pp., £25.00 hb., 978 0 30015 193 0. Yvonne Sherratt’s book on the response of philosophers to the Third Reich is written in the style of a docudrama. There are colourful descriptions of foliage in […]
Aló Presidente
Commentary Aló Presidente Hugo Chávez and populist leadership Martin marinos If capitalism resists, we are obliged to take up a battle against capitalism and open the way for the salvation of the human species. It’s up to us, raising the banners of Christ, Mohammed, equality, love, justice, humanity, the true and most profound humanism. If […]
Here comes the new: Deadwood and the historiography of capitalism
Here comes the new Deadwood and the historiography of capitalism David cunningham We are swept up, are we not, by the large events and forces of our times? A.W. Merrick, Deadwood, Season 3Shown across three twelve-episode series that began in 2004, Deadwood is one of several recent television programmes to develop long, serially formatted narratives […]
Politics in a Tragic Key
In memory of Joel Olson (1967–2012) In the quarter-century or so since the obscure disaster of the Soviet bloc’s collapse, two words have been pinned to that of ‘communism’ with liberal abandon: ‘tragedy’ and ‘transition’. Tragedy, to signify the magnitude of suffering, but not the greatness of the enterprise; the depth of the fall, but […]
Time of Debt: On the Nietzschean origins of Lazzarato’s indebted man
Among the many recent writings on the debt crisis engulfing economic relationships across the globe, one that is currently receiving a great deal of interest is Maurizio Lazzarato's The Making of the Indebted Man: An Essay on the Neoliberal Condition*.
180 Reviews: Yvonne Sherratt, Hitler’s Philosophers Sally Alexander and Barbara Taylor, eds., History and Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis, and the Past David Joselit, After Art Christoph Menke, Force: A Fundamental Concept of Aesthetic Anthropology Robert Sinnerbrink, New Philosophies of Film: Thinking Images David Webb, Foucault’s Archaeology: Science and Transformation Michel Serres, Biogea & Variations on the Body Laurence Paul Hemming, Heidegger and Marx: A Productive Dialogue over the Language of Humanism Carl Cederström and Peter Fleming, Dead Man Working
Esther Leslie, Lynne Segal, Todd Cronan, Tom Eyers, Christopher Ruth, Douglas Spencer, Yaiza Maria Hernandez Velazquez, Garin V. Dowd and Ron Broglio ~ RP 180 (July/Aug 2013) ~ Reviews
Reviews Look at his marvellous hands! Yvonne Sherratt, Hitler’s Philosophers, Yale University Press, New Haven CT and London, 2013. 336 pp., £25.00 hb., 978 0 30015 193 0. Yvonne Sherratt’s book on the response of philosophers to the Third Reich is written in the style of a docudrama. There are colourful descriptions of foliage in […]
Gillian Howie, 1965-2013
'The Personal is the Philosophical'
The machine is an ethic
in any doubt of the necessary coordination of the two impulses, of the how and the why. Rather than a simple flat-out critique of greening as seemingly inevitable cooptation, Parr could then tell us what her model of the green city would be. How can we imagine a green city in which the poor are […]
