Hager Weslati

Hager Weslati, Kingston University & the London Graduate School
Alexandre Kojève After Revolutionary Terror

Alexandre Kojève After Revolutionary Terror

If the French and Russian revolutions provided two models of post-revolutionary politics, neither of them  led to the realisation of a universal and homogenous state, an empirical existence where State, Right and Religion would become obsolete. Kojève's overlooked...

The Lacanian Trials

The Lacanian Trials

The 30th anniversary of Lacan’s death in September 2011 was marked by an “intellectual dispute,” one which was not settled in the sphere of ideas or public academic debate, but in a defamation trial in the French criminal courts. While a still on-going war of...

The Arab Minotaur: A People Deferred

The Arab Minotaur: A People Deferred

A deluge of articles, statements and comments on the peoples’ protests across a region defined in imperial geopolitical and cultural discourses as the Middle-East or the Arab World have so far been driven by two main questions: ‘how it happened?’ and ‘what will happen...