1) The reporting on the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union has been substandard in its simplification of perspectives to a “for or against” binary. It has been assumed that a view on the awarding of the prize has correspondingly also been a view...
<< Part 1 Balibar: Communication Étienne Balibar approaches Spinoza as a thinker of interaction, of the constitutive character of relations. Spinoza’s question, in Balibar’s view, is the following: ‘What is the mode of reciprocal action that characterizes the...
Introductory Note This highly insightful and informative paper was presented by Alberto Toscano at the Cultural Research Bureau of Iran, Tehran, January 4, 2005. We are grateful to him for allowing us to publish it here. As many scholars have noted, Spinoza’s...
There has never yet been human life, but always just economic life. (Bloch, 2006: 18) New York Police officers attack protesters with batons, pepper spray and horses in an attempt to prevent them from gathering in Times Square. Police officers’ rage is understandable,...
A free society requires certain morals that in the last instance are reduced to the conservation of lives: not to the conservation of all lives because it would be necessary to sacrifice individual lives in order to preserve a greater number of other lives. Therefore,...
‘If one thinker left a major indelible mark on the twentieth century, it was Karl Marx’ Eric Hobsbawm wrote in his last book ‘How to Change the World’ published in 2011. Perry Anderson entitles his review of Eric’s autobiography ‘Interesting Times’, ‘The age of Eric...
