The Democratic Contradictions of Multiculturalism Wins Best Non-Fiction Title...
Congratulations to Jens-Martin Eriksen and Frederik Stjernfelt for winning best title in the non-fiction category at the London Book Festival for their book The Democratic Contradictions of...
View ArticleMarcuse the Lover
Vincent Lloyd's "Marcuse the Lover" appears in Telos 165 (Winter 2013). Read the full version online at the Telos Online website, or purchase a print copy of the issue in our store. Why has Marcuse's...
View ArticleNotes on Adorno’s “Resignation”
As an occasional feature on TELOSscope, we highlight a past Telos article whose critical insights continue to illuminate our thinking and challenge our assumptions. Today, Aaron Bell looks at Theodor...
View ArticleThe Telos-Paul Piccone Institute: Critical Theory for Practical Problems
Earlier this month, the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute hosted its second Telos in Europe conference, focusing on "The Idea of Europe," in L'Aquila, Italy, and we will be posting a number of papers from...
View ArticlePopper, Adorno, and the Methodology Dispute
As Popper has written in several articles and his autobiography, he encountered Marxism as a young man in Austria around 1919. For two or three months he called himself a communist, but soon turned...
View ArticleThe Contradictions of Power
In November 1939, gangs of German civilians and Nazi operatives stormed Jewish stores, synagogues, and homes, killing or arresting those who could not escape. The Nazi leadership had carefully planned...
View ArticleThe Production of the Subject in Late Benjamin
This article places Benjamin’s late work in dialogue with recent attempts in media theory and structuralism to think the subject and historical contingency together. It argues their apparent...
View ArticleSaving Mediation: The Topicality of Max Horkheimer’s Post-liberal Concept of...
If we want to gain a deeper understanding of the specific relationship between the ethical and the political in current times, we have to talk about the mediating agencies that enable this...
View ArticleCritical Theory of the Contemporary: Nationalism, Populism, Islamism
In addition to its main focus on original sin in modernity, Telos 178 (Spring 2017) features a special section of topical writing, introduced here by Russell A. Berman, that continues our ongoing...
View ArticleTheses on Critical Theory and Contemporary Naturalism
For a New Naturalism, edited by Arran Gare and Wayne Hudson, is now available from Telos Press in our online store. Order your copy today and save 20% on the list price by using the coupon code...
View ArticleTemporality and Revolution in Horkheimer’s Early Critical Theory: A...
Loralea Michaelis's "Temporality and Revolution in Horkheimer's Early Critical Theory: A Luxemburgian Reading of Dämmerung" appears in Telos 185 (Winter 2018). Read the full article at the Telos...
View ArticleAdorno’s Minima Moralia and the Critique of Psychoanalysis
As an occasional feature on TELOSscope, we highlight a past Telos article whose critical insights continue to illuminate our thinking and challenge our assumptions. Today, Lillian Hingley looks at...
View ArticleNow Available! Anthropocene Alerts: Critical Theory of the Contemporary as...
New from Telos Press: Anthropocene Alerts: Critical Theory of the Contemporary as Ecocritique, by Timothy W. Luke. Order your copy in our online store, and save 20% on the list price by using the...
View ArticleTelos 189 (Winter 2019): Constitutional Theory as Cultural Problem
Telos 189 (Winter 2019), a special issue on Constitutional Theory as Cultural Problem, edited by Xudong Zhang and David Pan, is now available for purchase in our store. Individual subscriptions to...
View ArticleTelos 190 (Spring 2020): Economy and Ecology: Reconceiving the Human...
Telos 190 (Spring 2020): Economy and Ecology: Reconceiving the Human Relationship to Nature is now available for purchase in our store. Individual subscriptions to Telos are also available in both...
View ArticleTerrors of Theory: Critical Theory of Terror from Kojève to Žižek
Arthur Bradley's "Terrors of Theory: Critical Theory of Terror from Kojève to Žižek" appears in Telos 190 (Spring 2020): Economy and Ecology: Reconceiving the Human Relationship to Nature. Read the...
View ArticleThe Old in New Critical Theory: Locating the Gambler and the Prostitute in...
Joseph Weiss's "The Old in New Critical Theory: Locating the Gambler and the Prostitute in the Image of Neoliberalism" appears in Telos 190 (Spring 2020): Economy and Ecology: Reconceiving the Human...
View ArticleThe Descent into Disanthropy: Critical Theory and the Anthropocene
Andrew Reszitnyk's "The Descent into Disanthropy: Critical Theory and the Anthropocene" appears in Telos 190 (Spring 2020): Economy and Ecology: Reconceiving the Human Relationship to Nature. Read the...
View ArticleNew from Telos Press: Timothy W. Luke’s Screens of Power: Ideology,...
Now available for pre-order: Screens of Power: Ideology, Domination, and Resistance in Informational Society, by Timothy W. Luke. Pre-order today in our online store and save 30% off the list price....
View ArticleNow Available: Timothy W. Luke’s Screens of Power: Ideology, Domination, and...
Now available! Screens of Power: Ideology, Domination, and Resistance in Informational Society, by Timothy W. Luke. Purchase your copy in our online store and save 20% by using the coupon code BOOKS20...
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