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“A sociality of pure egoists”: Husserl’s critique of liberalism
According to Husserl’s self-description, his phenomenological project was “completely apolitical.” Husserl’s phenomenology did not provide a...
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Berlin and Bernard Williams on Liberalism
The notion that liberalism doesn’t exist is a familiar and prevalent one. This seemingly paradoxical viewpoint boils down to the claim that the...
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X Between Ideology and Reason—On Political Ethics
Chapter ten discusses problems of a political ethic in the tension between ideology and reason. The beginning is formed by the considerations of...
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How Not to Talk About Environmental Personhood: Thinking Transitional Concepts
This paper studies “environmental personhood” legislation as a transitional concept . A transitional concept is one whose originating context sets...
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A return of barbarism
This article discusses the 2022 war from the point of view of its well-documented savagery. It addresses philosophical discussions of barbarism and...
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Complex Methodological Individualism
This chapter contextualizes the question of Methodological Individualism (MI) in the social sciences into a broader and more general scientific...
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Gender, Sex and Market – “Can Sex Be a Service Like Any Other?”
This article links historical and religious views of morality with representations of gender and sex on the market. The intention has been to...
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On Decolonizing Philosophy and the Arts
The text introduces decolonial debates in philosophy. In the first step, the historical horizon of decolonial debates is described, which is found in...
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Concepts: Somapower, the Microphysics of Emancipation, and the Politics of Everyday Life
This chapter explains and discusses the main concepts that underpin my argument in the book. First, the relationship between everyday life and...
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Husserl on the state: a critical reappraisal
What could a political phenomenology look like? Recent attempts to address this question under the rubric “critical phenomenology” have centered...
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Exiles in the Twenty-First Century: The New “Population Law” of Absolute Capitalism
Addressing the dramatic situation of migrants and refugees in the Euro-Mediterranean and Euro-British space, Étienne Balibar mobilizes and questions...
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Politics
The dilemmas of the four generic truths in Alain Badiou’s philosophy culminate in politics and in more extreme ways than in the previous declaration...
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The Political Philosophy of Conservatism (Vita Activa)
After the above review of the education and formative years of Scruton, the philosopher, let us now turn to the active part of his career, his...
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Introduction: Alain Badiou’s Affirmations
The systematic nature of Badiou’s philosophy has been developed over the last half-century to counter-act the tradition of critical theory and...
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Catholicism, Colonial Encounters and Secularism in Asia
José Casanova examines the history of Asian Catholicism from the colonial period to the modern period of globalization. In doing so, Casanova pays...
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Ideology, Terror, Control: Does Totalitarianism Have a Prospect for the Future?
When totalitarianism disappears in its actual appearance in 1945 and 1989 (fascism, Nazism and communism), it is replaced by what constitutes the...
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Integration of the Anthropocene into the Citizen Debate
In the introduction to this work, we mentioned the publication of a series of manifestos over the past few years, most written by academics. They are...
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Canguilhem and the Logic of Life
We examine aspects of Canguilhem’s philosophy of biology, concerning the knowledge of life and its consequences on science and vitalism. His concept...
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Introduction
This book opens up a path towards a phenomenological theory of values, or axiology (from the ancient Greek “axios,” worthy). The Introduction...